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cthomer5000 02-02-2004 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TargetPractice6
The dog from duck hunt rules :)


He's almost a villian in my eyes, eternally taunting my lousy shooting skills. :(

Desnudo 02-02-2004 03:42 PM

He definitely wasn't Man's Best Friend in that game.

TargetPractice6 02-02-2004 03:51 PM

I was one of those peoplet hat put the gun right next to the TV. I'm a cheater, I know. :D

Maple Leafs 02-02-2004 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TargetPractice6
I was one of those peoplet hat put the gun right next to the TV.

When I first skimmed this, I read it as "one of those puppet hats..."

And I don't know why, but for some reason I think "puppet hat" is just a fantastic insult. I'm going to start using it.

ice4277 02-02-2004 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs
When I first skimmed this, I read it as "one of those puppet hats..."

And I don't know why, but for some reason I think "puppet hat" is just a fantastic insult. I'm going to start using it.


Target has a 'buy one get one free' on those when you purchase an asshat at the same time.

Maple Leafs 02-02-2004 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ice4277
Target has a 'buy one get one free' on those when you purchase an asshat at the same time.

I dub thee "Ass Puppet".

ice4277 02-03-2004 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs
I dub thee "Ass Puppet".


That sounds like it would hurt :redface:

Maple Leafs 02-03-2004 08:55 AM

I know Foz is pretty busy these days, so I've made a pick for him based on an old list he sent.

Foz takes The Defender, from Defender. (Edit: Oops. Already gone)

Ramzavail is up... right now the odds of this draft being completed are running at about 4-1.

Ramzavail 02-03-2004 09:13 AM

Didnt he choose the Defender in the 7th round?

Maple Leafs 02-03-2004 09:20 AM

Indeed he did. In that case, I have no more picks left for him.

I wouldn't count on him making frequent forum visits, so feel free to move on without him for now. He may drop by this afternoon after work and make a pick, but I doubt at this stage that anyone is going to be targetting the same characters.

And once again, please, please send me your picks in advance if you can. Right now I have picks from Corbes and TargetPractice, and that's it. There's no reason it should take two weeks to do a round and a half when everyone is picking sleepers.

SirFozzie 02-03-2004 09:29 AM

Time to go a bit retro again...

The Altered Beast (from the game Altered Beast)

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!!!!

j51 02-03-2004 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by SirFozzie
WISE FROM YO GWAVE!!!!!


Thats better.

Ramzavail 02-03-2004 12:04 PM

My favorite car and character in the game that I probably spend the most time playing ever (More than any other Final Fantasy) - F-Zero SNES

Captain Falcon - F-Zero series, Super Smash Bros. series

corbes 02-03-2004 12:08 PM

i'll make my pick...

...in one second

corbes 02-03-2004 12:23 PM

I'll take The Commando from the game of the same name.

The Afoci 02-03-2004 12:23 PM

Has anyone selected the guy from Section Z yet. Not that I think that would be a good pick, but I think I may be the only person in the world to have purchased that game.

Franklinnoble 02-03-2004 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by SirFozzie
Time to go a bit retro again...

The Altered Beast (from the game Altered Beast)

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!!!!


Power up!!!

Classic game...

ice4277 02-03-2004 01:03 PM

Piggybacking onto Corbes' pick, I choose:

The Commando (Command and Conquer)

One of the very few memorable individual characters from the first game, and just about the only one you really cared not to get killed. Bonus points for being in the game that jumpstarted an entire genre.

Maple Leafs 02-03-2004 02:01 PM

In a really odd twist, Target's pre-sent pick was:

The Bionic Commando

Seriously. I'm not making that up. Talk about going commando.

(I have no idea who that is, by the way, is it the same guy as one of the previous two commandos?)

sterlingice 02-03-2004 02:13 PM

No, Bionic Commando was from an arcade-turned-NES side-scroller that involved a guy with a telescoping arm. While The Commando was an Ikari-Warriors style overhead view scroller.

SI

Ramzavail 02-03-2004 02:17 PM

Ikari-Warriors - thats one helluva reference - I loved that game.

Maple Leafs 02-03-2004 02:18 PM

OK, then Eagle Eye is up.

Eagle, which Commando should I put you down for?

Danny 02-03-2004 02:21 PM

We are proud to select the best character from the best ever real time strategy game. I select Kerrigan from Starcraft.

Ramzavail 02-03-2004 02:27 PM

good pick.

Calis 02-03-2004 02:46 PM

I'm going to go ahead and go with the main character in what is probably the best or at worst 2nd best RPG of all time in my book. Definitely one of the best endings in the history of gaming as well.

The Vault Dweller
Fallout

Not a whole lot more to be said. I mean, it's Fallout!

Ramzavail 02-03-2004 02:48 PM

good pick - although not too many people have heard of this game.

Certainly I have and wasted alot of time with Fallout Tactics as well.

albionmoonlight 02-03-2004 02:51 PM

I needed a bit more muscle on the team to complement George. When this game came out, I was still young enough to find the pun in his name the height of sophisticated comedy. Weighing in at 237 pounds with a record of 33 wins, 2 losses, and 24 Knock Outs, the one and only



Soda Popinski

Desnudo 02-03-2004 03:03 PM

I love that name. For my selection, tossing long bombs and frustrating defenses for years:

The Trebuchet, Age of Empires/Mythology series

Maple Leafs 02-03-2004 03:25 PM

Damn, my last two picks. Time to fill out the roster with some size and toughness.

Ninth round pick:
OK, it's yet another attempt to feed off the popularity of a great game without a real lead character. So sue me. At least this time I didn't pick an inanimate object. This guy was pretty bad ass and could do a lot of damage. Nothing like seeing hours of hard work go down the tube when he showed up and stomped a mudhole in everything. I still hate him to this day.

My ninth round pick: The Giant Lizard from Sim City

Tenth round pick:
We've left a major category of video/computer game characters untouched. Specifically, a type of boss character that's often overlooked. It's the "Foozle the Evil Wizard" character: that generic, obligatory bad guy in every old-school RPG who builds a dungeon, sends his minions after you, and then fights you in the final battle.

So which one to choose... I thought about Mangar form Bard's Tale and briefly considered someone from the Arena series. But in the end I settled on a personal favorite, from one of the most ground-breaking titles of all time. He was tough to fight, he had a pet dragon, and they ripped off his look for the Witch King in Lord of the Rings. That's an impressive resume.

My tenth and final pick: Lord Chaos, from Dungeon Master

cthomer5000 02-03-2004 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight
I needed a bit more muscle on the team to complement George. When this game came out, I was still young enough to find the pun in his name the height of sophisticated comedy. Weighing in at 237 pounds with a record of 33 wins, 2 losses, and 24 Knock Outs, the one and only



Soda Popinski



too bad they couldn't have left him as Vodka Drunkenski from the aracade version. :(

Still, I love how his sayings overtly referenced drinking. Not the toughest fighter in the game, but good pick.

Ramzavail 02-03-2004 04:18 PM

"After you lose, we'll drink to your health! Ha, ha, ha!"

Desnudo 02-03-2004 07:02 PM

My last pick is one for a game that didn't exactly explode in popularity, but definitely had a niche as one of the first successful MMPORGs:

Asheron, Asheron's Call

cthomer5000 02-03-2004 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Ramzavail
"After you lose, we'll drink to your health! Ha, ha, ha!"


"I drink to prepare for a fight. Tonight, I am very prepared!"

Maple Leafs 02-03-2004 09:44 PM

Albino sent in a pick:

He selects Clyde from Pac Man.

Calis 02-03-2004 11:13 PM

I don't have the motivation to put much thought into this anymore, but when the whole Commando craze went down it triggered some memories of another character.

I will select the man who propelled John Carmack's and sexy bitch John Romero's careers into the limelight. The one and only....

Commander Keen

Think this started the whole shareware craze as well, and it was a pretty damn fun game to boot. No clue how many they ended up making, 7 or so I think. Anyway, brought the side scroller to the PC.

I'm done..phew, what a relief actually. Through all the trials and tribulations, we've almost finished this thing, and can let it fade into oblivion finally. :)

Danny 02-04-2004 12:06 AM

I will use my final pick to select the villian from perhaps the greatest video game franchise ever.

I select Ganondorf

sterlingice 02-04-2004 12:12 AM

I see some guys who should have left the board long ago being picked now: Dr Wily, Ganon, and Captain Falcon. I was wondering when any of those guys would get picked.

SI

albionmoonlight 02-04-2004 09:10 AM

Just to comment on Clyde as a pick--

Much like when I picked the Princess, I wanted to get a recognizable character from a legendary game in my stable. Non gamers who have no idea who 95% of the characters on this list are will recognize the ghost from Pac-Man (and may even remember that the last one was named Clyde).

Maple Leafs 02-04-2004 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight
Just to comment on Clyde as a pick--

Much like when I picked the Princess, I wanted to get a recognizable character from a legendary game in my stable. Non gamers who have no idea who 95% of the characters on this list are will recognize the ghost from Pac-Man (and may even remember that the last one was named Clyde).

Pardon my stupidity, but...

I thought the ghosts were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Sue.

Danny 02-04-2004 03:20 PM

I certainly do not remember anyone named Clyde.

rkmsuf 02-04-2004 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs
Pardon my stupidity, but...

I thought the ghosts were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Sue.


Never heard of Sue...you have some sort of ghost fetish?

Maple Leafs 02-04-2004 03:22 PM

After some quick research:

Clyde was the last ghost in Pac Man
Sue was the last ghost in Ms. Pac Man

Danny 02-04-2004 03:30 PM

Oh, I just remembered LInky, Tinky and Stinky

sterlingice 02-04-2004 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs
After some quick research:

Clyde was the last ghost in Pac Man
Sue was the last ghost in Ms. Pac Man


Ah! That was it! I was wondering this, too, because I remember Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde.

SI

Maple Leafs 02-04-2004 04:00 PM

Kind of makes you wonder if Clyde is a good pick, though. If he was cut from the roster before the sequel, that might tell you something... I hear he was a lockerroom cancer.

rkmsuf 02-04-2004 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs
Kind of makes you wonder if Clyde is a good pick, though. If he was cut from the roster before the sequel, that might tell you something... I hear he was a lockerroom cancer.


I think by the time Ms Pac Man came out Clyde had retired and was in broadcasting...

albionmoonlight 02-04-2004 05:11 PM

. . . then there was that whole drug cartel/power pellet smuggling scandal in the late 80's in which Clyde was involved. He was last spotted in 1997 living in hiding in Argentina.

When is the next pick due. Let's finish this draft up right (or put it out of its misery depending on your point of view).

Maple Leafs 02-04-2004 06:27 PM

TargetPractice is up. He's been sending picks, but they've all been taken.

TargetPractice6 02-04-2004 07:35 PM

I'm here. Pick in a little while. Eating dinner at the moment.

TargetPractice6 02-04-2004 08:13 PM

My next pick comes from one of my favorite games of all time. It really wasn't that widely played, but I liked it so much I have to pick a character from it.

So with my final pick I'll take....

Ramza Beoulve, Final Fantasy Tactics

I was thinking about picking the Cid of this game, which is why I contested Vince's pick of all the Cids. :D However, you don't get or even meet him until later in the game. So I figured I'd take the main character.


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