1. Blink, and it’s Game Over. The Witcher 3 contains a fun little Doctor Who Easter Egg for gamers who don’t mind keeping their eyes open– a gang of Weeping Angels in a churchyard. After completing a side quest in an area called Velen, players can come across a couple of angel statues near a church – but if you turn your back on them, they move to face you, and get nearer, no matter where you move to in the area. Brr – where’s Sally Sparrow when you need her?

2. Race against time. 2004 Racing game XGRA: Xtreme G Racing Association also saw a guest spot for the Doctor’s motor, with the Tardis popping up in the background of the game’s aerodrome level. No chance to take it for a race though.

3. Fallout. In the original Fallout game, you can come across a rather familiar looking blue object called an “Unusual Call Box”, but unfortunately you can’t take it for a spin – if you get anywhere near it the box vanishes with the familiar Tardis groans.

4. Runescape. If you’re missing Amy and Rory in Doctor Who, then you should get yourself over to the town of Burgh de Rott in online role-playing game Runescape, where a couple of children named Rory and Amelia are waiting to be found. And don’t go thinking those names could be a coincidence – if you claim to be the hero from the children’s stories, Rory will accuse you of lying, saying that you aren’t wearing a cool bow tie like the legendary hero is supposed to.

5. 1984’s educational puzzle game Robot Odyssey had a rather familiar robot patrolling a sewer level, and while unnamed as such these "Daleks" were suitably deadly – if you touched them, the level was reset.

6. Pokemon Platinum. Fans of Doctor Who got a special treat in the release of 2008’s Pokemon Platinum, which features a character called the Looker who dresses uncannily like David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor.

7. Rock Band.

8. Team Fortress 2. Rock Band has Doctor What and Team Fortress has Matt Smith-alike bow ties, appropriately named “Doctor Woah”.

9. Destroy All Humans! 2. In alien invasion first-person shooter Destroy All Humans! 2, main character Crypto heads to a version of London called Albion, where his appearance causes quite a Who-themed stir. When seeing the extra-terrestrial in their midst, citizens scream “Someone call the Doctor!” or “Where the hell’s the bleedin’ Tardis?,” and though sadly neither turn up it’s a great little nod to the quintessentially British series.

10. Paradroid. Commodore 64 game Paradroid simply included Daleks among the various robots you had to destroy.

11. In 1990s, there was a game called Beneath a Steel Sky, which saw a man raised by Aborigines come to a cyberpunk city to expose the corruption within. In the course of his quest he’s accompanied by an artificial intelligence called Joey, who can be transferred to control various robot bodies as the need arises. And what’s the Doctor Who connection, I hear you ask? Well, if you put Joey into the body of a welding robot with a working torch he goes full Dalek, rolling around and yelling EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!

12. 1991’s Hugo II, Whodunit? has no intentions to be discreet- you travel in a phone box (which turns into the Tardis) to a planet called Retupmoc (computer backwards) and meet both a shootable Dalek and a version of the Fourth Doctor (who hands over a “sonar screwdriver”).

13. Fallout again, this time New Vegas. At one point in the game, when facing a particular enemy (the Y-17 Trauma override harness) and after enabling a perk called Wild Wasteland, players can make their foes say “Hey, who turned out the lights?” in a reference to 2008 Who episode Silence in the Library, which features a similarly-skeletal monster with the same catchphrase. And that’s not all – at another point in the game, a radio broadcast can be heard saying “Bravo Bravo Charlie, the Doctor is coming”, in a clear reference to both Doctor Who and the broadcaster it’s made by – the BBC.

14. We end with wacky Borderlands 2. After one mission a roll call for some deceased construction workers names four classic Doctors – Hartnell, W., Troughton, P, Pertwee, J. and Baker, T – aka William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.