Favorite Game Quotes

[Quiet_Cool]

Paraphrased, as I can't remember the exact quote:

Girl: "Ash, I don't know how I'll ever repay you."

Ash: "Have you ever seen the movie Deepthroat?"

From: Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick.

Q_C

 

[Remec]

I first discovered role-playing games in the ninth grade and played them extensively when I went to high school. Midway through my junior year, we moved from California to Virginia and I came to see one of the school librarians, whom I had been told was the advisor for the Wargaming Society.

"Oh, they're meeting today. Follow me."

She led me to a periodical room and I met a bunch of the members. They had been waiting for the judge of their current game to show up. George wandered in, took a look at me, and asked, "Who's the new guy?"

"Hi, I'm Sean."

"Hey Sean. We're playing Traveler, right now. Ever played Traveler?"

"Um, no"

"Have you ever played any roleplaying game?"

"Sure"

"Sit down, you know how to play."

 

[gauchecritic]

Chatterbox FM in GTA III

Lazslo: "Are you sane? Are you a sane caller?

Caller: "Yes Lazslo. Killer beeeees.

 

[Hooper_X]

Streetfighter II

Ryu: Shoryuken!!! (oft-misheard as all-you-ken)

 

[Seattle Zack]

I used to play Zork on my C64, but is wasn't the first computer roleplaying game. My older brother had a game called "Adventure Land" on his TRS-80 at least 2 years earlier. The game media was a cassette tape and it took 20 minutes to load.

Adventureland Screenshot:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2221/339145on4.jpg

That sounds like a derivative of Adventure, which was probably the first computer roleplaying game, from 1977. It was written in FORTRAN, had a simple two-word parser. I remember you had to get the bird in the cage to scare off the snake when you started...

Before I was even in high school, I wrote game programs on the Trash-80 and sold them to a "magazine" called CLOAD (which was the command you used on the TRS-80 to load the cassette) that mailed out a cassette once a month. Simple stuff in BASIC, lunar lander and space shooters, that kind of thing. I wrote a few games for the VIC-20 and C-64 as well, sold them to magazines that would just print the program, and you'd have to laboriously type it in with your keyboard.

Zork came from some guys at MIT and when I was in college, we used to be able to sign on the UC Berkely mainframe and play it. I mapped the whole damn thing out, sheets of graph paper taped together and everything. There's an interesting history of Zork that appeared in the New York Times, written by the guys that invented it.

 

[Hooper_X]

That sounds like a derivative of Adventure, which was probably the first computer roleplaying game, from 1977.

That may well be the case. We got Adventureland, again on cassette, in 1978.

It was written in FORTRAN, had a simple two-word parser. I remember you had to get the bird in the cage to scare off the snake when you started...

I vaguely remember something about a birdcage figuring prominently in Adventureland. I was eight years old at the time, so my recollection is a little fuzzy.

...and you'd have to laboriously type it in with your keyboard.

Ha! My brother used to make me type BASIC programs out of books and magazines all of the time. It's probably why I never entertained the notion of majoring in computer science. The typing was bad enough, but the debugging was murderous... especially given my prepubescent attention span.

I mapped the whole damn thing out, sheets of graph paper taped together and everything.

I did the same thing. I played a lot of D&D (before and after it acquired the A). So mapping dungeons on graph paper comes natural.