I am not too fond of it either.

Um... thanks. I think.

P.S. Since Ice still hasn't taken his pick from last round, I have no objection if Corbes wants to jump in ahead of him this time around.

Yikes. Where did the day go? I have been out and about for the last 16 hours and totally missed my pick. Not the end of the world though, as none of my picks have gone off the board. With my seventh round pick I will take:

Warrior (Golden Axe)

The best character from one of the best early side-scrolling action games, I dropped countless quarters playing this at the arcade, as well as spending a ton of time playing the Genesis version.

And SUPERMAN would be the late round sleeper i guess.

Wow.

George, Kid Icarus, and a character from Golden Axe.

What an absolute ransacking of my plans. ML can attest. I didn't have Kid Icarus on that list because I was playing that pick close to the vest. Albion totally snagged it. Great pick.

I don't have a ready pick lined up, now. Hang on.

OK, for my eighth pick, I select:

Dinosaur (Bubble Bobble)

Perhaps not well known on an individual basis, one look at http://taito.overclocked.org/ shows a total of 25 games this character has appeared in. Quantity should count for something, especially this late in the draft.

mmmkay

On that note, I'm going to take

Player 1 from Pole Position

char·ac·ter ( P ) Pronunciation Key (krk-tr)
n.

1. The combination of qualities or features that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another. See Synonyms at disposition.

Not to nitpick, but they have names. The dinosaurs are named Bub and Bob.

SI

No sir. Not allowed, by the rules.

And of course, it wouldn't help that he was in arguably the worst game of all time.

That's not the right form of character. That's like talking about a person's individual character. This is the definition I was thinking of: "A person portrayed in an artistic piece, such as a drama or novel." Not that it matter sthough, as I'm not going to dispute your pick or anything.

Let's not get caught up in the rules. If we're allowing the line from Pong, I think everything is fair game. Choosing the straight bar was just a way to get some mention of Tetris in... he could have picked the weird little dancing Russian guy and got the same effect.

Besides, how do we know that the straight bar really isn't a slovakian robot named Chetsche?

Because we all known it's Latvian...

No, you're thinking of Arturs Irbe.

Oh... Okay then it is Russian. The guy who made Tetris was Russian at least.

Im telling you, it's Slovakian.

Russian probably, Latvian maybe, Slovakian no :

http://vadim.www.media.mit.edu/Tetris.htm

I figured they had names but since I had been awake for close to 24 hours when I made those picks I wasn't striving for the utmost in accuracy ;)

I'm playing a couple nintendo games right now that have characters that have been unselected. But I don't know how popular they actually are, you know....

I'll give a hint for just one of them...

I'll give you the initials for the game:

RCPA (2 of them are already initials for the game itself.. figure it out)

I will select

Heihachi Mishima - Tekken 1-4, Tekken Tag Tourney, Soul Calibur II (PS2)

Does your wife go? Eh? Is she a goer? Knudge knudge knowhutamean knowhutamean say no more say no more.

Before we make folks heads explode with the massive offtopicness..

My next selection: Jill Valentine, Resident Evil Series.

QB Eagles, Tecmo Super Bowl

The guy was absolutely unstoppable. A good passer with running speed that put him amongst the fastest running backs in the game.

This "character" is also the center of the most video game stories for me personally. I still detest one of my best friends for injuring him in the NFC title game, and beating me to destroy my undefeated (15-0-1) season. It was a genuine tragedy.

If this pick comes under protest and is denied, i will make a new selection.

We all know QB Eagles is/was Cunningham. I don't think that's a valid choice.

Agreed, nice try homer.

I'll second the protest, just for the record.

What??? I thought Richie Cunningham was the star of Happy Days?

boooooooooooooooooo. you guys are no fun at all.

I don't know who this Randal Cunningham is that you speak of, as he does not appear in the video game of which I speak.

I say he should get it. After all, we all know the player one line from pong is based off of Richard Nixon and we allowed that.

QB Bills was better anyways ;)

Im on the fence about the pick. I will stay out of it.

Edit: QB Bills was not better.

Well, whoever is next should just go. If my pick is ruled illegal, i'll just make up the pick in next round.

I'm not going to allow the QB Eagles pick.

If this was an original pick, I'd probably give credit for finding a loophole in the rules, appluad the creativity and allow it. But since QuikSand mentioned it all the way back on page one, it's really just a piggyback pick. So no, the pick is not valid. Final answer.

(Does that make sense? Not really, but since when did you want logic in a video game character draft.)

I agree with the decision due to your reasoning.

I'm afraid Mrs. Manner's husband, Mr. Grammar, is actually correct here, technically speaking. :D You could say a thing has a lot of character, like a glass of wine, but you wouldn't say what a great character it was.

I always thought it was Jim McMahon?

Ok, I'm going to make my picks, since I'm not going to be around for much of tonight or tomorrow. If it turns out cthomer was going to pick one of these guys, then I'll retract the pick and fix it later.

Ok, my squad was highly lacking in the RPG category, so I'm going with two greats here. The first is one of the best and most underrated characters from the Final Fantasy franchise. I give you...

Cid
http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...ll/FF7/Cid.jpghttp://images.google.com/images?q=tb...re.com/cid.jpg

Appearing in every Final Fantasy game outside of the original, Cid was the standby in every Final Fantasy game as the master of the airship. Usually not a mainstream character or much of a fighter, Cid was always an interesting plot element.

And with my next pick...

Erdrick, Dragon Warrior
http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...t/hero_ico.gif

Ok, I couldn't find a picture of him, because I don't think one exists, but you get the gist. Dragon Warrior was one of my favorite Nintendo games of all time, and Erdrick was your ancestor. Throughout the game, you had to acquire various items that he used back in the day to defeat the Dragon Lord to stand a chance against him. Great game :)

Love 'em or hate 'em, these picks were more because I wanted them on my squad than because I thought they were 'great picks.'

EDIT - Ok, anyone want to help me out? The pics won't work :(

The Cid in each Final Fantasy is a different character you know.

Thats the problem with Cid - it was a different character and different looking character every time - the only constant was that there was a character named "Cid", maybe in every one - not sure about that one.

Well, I do know that it is a different character every time, but I liked that he was always in it. Anyhow...bump for cthomer tomorrow.

bump

Now I can genuinely curse QuikSand. The minute I joined the draft I had him in mind... that robot bastard blew it for me.

Ok, I select Dr. Wily from the Mega Man series.

cthomer5000 is still on the clock, since Vince pre-picked for this two spots.

Vince, please clarify which Cid you're talking about.

:confused:
my selection is right above your post, and has been for a few hours.

I thought that was your eight round pick. Vince made his two, meaning it would be back to you for your ninth rounder.

Ok, if I have to clarify...

I'll go with FF IV Cid (Final Fantasy II to us US blokes).

Sorry, i guess the list wasn't updated when I looked at it... I obviously got confused.

Hehe.

The dog from duck hunt rules :)