The FOFC video game character draft
 

Round One:
1- Vince - Mario
2- cthomer5000 - Donkey Kong
3- SirFozzie- Samus Aran (Metroid)
4- Ramzavail - Pac Man
5- Corbes - Link (Zelda)
6- ice4277 - Sonic The Hedgehog
7- TargetPractice6 - MegaMan
8- EagleEye11 - Duke Nukem
9- Calis - The Avatar (Ultima)
10- albionmoonlight - The vertical line representing Player One in Pong
11- Desnudo - Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
12- Maple Leafs - Crash Bandicoot

Round Two:
12- Maple Leafs - Lara Croft
11- Desnudo - Tommy Vercetti (GTA)
10- albionmoonlight - Frogger
9- Calis - Little Mac (Punchout)
8- EagleEye11 - The Arrow from Asteroids
7- TargetPractice6 - Ryu (Street Fighter)
6- ice4277- Space Marine (Doom)
5- Corbes- Leisure Suit Larry
4- Ramzavail - Cloud (Final Fantasy)
3- SirFozzie - Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
2- cthomer5000 - Roger Wilco (Space Quest)
1- Vince - Simon Belmont (Castlevania)

Round Three:
1- Vince - Master Chief (Halo)
2- cthomer5000 - Luigi
3- SirFozzie - King Bowser
4- Ramzavail - Yoshi
5- Corbes - Ms. Pac Man
6- ice4277 - Ken (Streetfighter)
7- TargetPractice6 - Fox McCloud
8- EagleEye11 - Kirby
9- Calis - Pitfall Harry
10- albionmoonlight - The Metroid
11- Desnudo - Q-Bert
12- Maple Leafs - The tank from space invaders

Round Four:
12- Maple Leafs - Dirk the Daring (Dragon's Lair)
11- Desnudo - Dante (Devil May Cry)
10- albionmoonlight - Hero (from Adventure)
9- Calis - Guybrush Threepwood (Monkey Island)
8- EagleEye11 - Bomberman
7- TargetPractice6 - Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
6- ice4277 - The Spacecraft from Galaga
5- Corbes - The Paperboy
4- Ramzavail - Bill "Mag Dog" Rizer (Contra)
3- SirFozzie - Sinistar
2- cthomer5000 - Bonk
1- Vince - Sub Zero (Mortal Kombat)

Round Five:
1- Vince - Billy Lee (Doube Dragon)
2- cthomer5000 - The Amazon
3- SirFozzie - Pikachu
4- Ramzavail - The Warrior (Gauntlet)
5- Corbes - The Centipede
6- ice4277 - The Buccaneer (Pirates)
7- TargetPractice6 - Gordon Freeman (Half Life)
8- EagleEye11 - Sephiroth (Final Fantasy)
9- Calis - Kefka (Final Fantasy)
10- albionmoonlight - Atrus (Myst)
11- Desnudo - J.C Denton (Deus Ex)
12- Maple Leafs - Sir Graham (King's Quest)

Round Six:
12- Maple Leafs - Donkey Kong Jr.
11- Desnudo - Carmen San Diego
10- albionmoonlight - The Princess (Mario series)
9- Calis - BJ Blaskowitz (Wolfenstein 3D)
8- EagleEye11 - Alucard (Castlevania)
7- TargetPractice6 - Prince (Prince of Persia)
6- ice4277 - M. Bison
5- Corbes - Wario
4- Ramzavail - Crono (Chrono Trigger)
3- SirFozzie - The M.U.L.E.
2- cthomer5000 - Blade (Bad Dudes)
1- Vince - Joe Musashi (Shinobi)

Round Seven:
1- Vince - The Guy on the Bike in Excitebike
2- cthomer5000 - Striker (Bad Dudes)
3- SirFozzie - Defender
4- Ramzavail - Sir Arthur (Ghouls 'n' Ghosts)
5- Corbes - Thomas (Kung Fu)
6- ice4277 - Warrior (Golden Axe)
7- TargetPractice6 - Ness (Earthbound)
8- EagleEye11 - Dig Dug
9- Calis - Alex (River City Ransom)
10- albionmoonlight - George (Rampage)
11- Desnudo - Scorpio (Mortal Kombat)
12- Maple Leafs - Earthworm Jim

Round Eight:
12- Maple Leafs - DOH (Arkanoid)
11- Desnudo - The Warrior (Diablo)
10- albionmoonlight - Chef (Burger Time)
9- Calis Pit (Kid Icarus)
8- EagleEye11 - Straight Bar (Tetris)
7- TargetPractice6 - Rygar
6- ice4277 - Bub (Bubble Bobble)
5- Corbes - Player 1 from Pole Position
4- Ramzavail - Heihachi Mishima (Tekken)
3- SirFozzie - Jill Valentine (Resident Evil)
2- cthomer5000 - Dr. Wily (Mega Man)
1- Vince - Cid (Final Fantasy IV)

Round Nine:
1- Vince - Erdrick (Dragon Warrior)
2- cthomer5000 - The dog from Duck Hunt
3- SirFozzie - The Altered Beast
4- Ramzavail - Captain Falcon (F-Zero series)
5- Corbes - The Commando (Commando)
6- ice4277 - The Commando (Command and Conquer)
7- TargetPractice6 - Bionic Commando
8- EagleEye11 - Kerrigan (Starcraft)
9- Calis - The Vault Dweller (Fallout)
10- albionmoonlight - Soda Popinski
11- Desnudo - The Trebuchet (Age of Empires)
12- Maple Leafs - The Giant Lizard from Sim City

Round Ten:
12- Maple Leafs - Lord Chaos (Dungeon Master)
11- Desnudo - Asheron (Asheron's Call)
10- albionmoonlight - Clyde (Pac Man)
9- Calis - Commander Keen
8- EagleEye11 - Ganondorf
7- TargetPractice6 - Ramza Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics)
6- ice4277 - Dean Houston
5- Corbes - Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
4- Ramzavail - Babe from the American Dreams (Baseball Stars)
3- SirFozzie - Chocobo
2- cthomer5000 - Gum (Jet Grind Radio)
1- Vince - The Settler (Civilization)


Disclaimer: The idea for this draft is essentially a case of taking the existing FOFC sports drafts and combining them with something I saw on another board. In other words, virtually no original thought has gone into this whatsoever.

The draft: I'm looking for ten or twelve FOFCers to take part in a ten-round draft. Your drafting video game characters (with certain rules, see below). At the end of the draft, a winner will be determined by a vote. The criteria for choosing that winner will be up to the voters, but essentially you want to put together the best possible group of famous characters.

The rules:
1. Once a character is taken, he's off the board regardless of how many games he's appeared in. If you take Mario, the next guy can't take Mario Golf Mario.
2. The character must have started off in a video game. No movie characters who were turned into video games. Lara Croft is OK. The Terminator is not. Real life pro atheletes are not. (Rule clarification: arcade games count as video games)
3. You can take any type of character (human, creature, male, female, good, bad, etc) as long as you can describe him/her/it in some way that we understand who you mean.
4. You're drafting specific characters, not general types. Blinky from Pac Man is OK. "Ghosts" in general are not.
5. If you make an invalid pick based on these rules and someone points it out, you lose your pick. If necessary, be prepared to show some sort of evidence that your pick is valid.
6. Draft will go in serpentine order based off a random order. If needed, we'll put time limits on picks during the week.

So... anyone want to volunteer to draft a team?

I'll "volunteer".

Do I get academic credit for this?

This could be fun, count me in.

Hell yeah :) Count me in. Damn, I'm getting into a lot of drafts recently.

If I can't draft Super Techmo Bowl Lawrence Taylor, forget it!:D

Good topic, though.

blackeyedjoe.com

im there.

I'm in.

Good ol' Joe...

P.S. You'd take LT over Tecmo Bo? You're insane...

Bo Jackson was the best video game athlete ever - Id never take LT over him.

If Jay Schoeder got sacked on 2nd down - 3rd and long - Off Tackle run with Bo - 1st down easily.

P.S. Im in.

I'd like to give it a go.

What can I say? I like defense.

I am down.

In if there be room

A great, but underrated because of Tecmo, player, was NES Play-Action Football Mike Singletary.

So we have:

Me
Corbes
Calis
Vince
cthomer
Foz
Ramzavail
Desnudo
Fargo
Albion

Let's say there's room for two more.

I'll do it!

Why not, im in

EagleEye and ice make it 12.

Could the next person who's not in the draft who reads this do us a favor and go to http://www.random.org/sform.html to get a list of 12 numbers?

4
5
6
7
2
11
9
12
3
10
8
1

Does that mean I'm first? Woo-hoo :)

Thank you MikeVic!

This should be some fun. Here's to hoping some of my top picks slip.

Dang, I have a feeling my first choice will be long gone.

So many ways I could go with this pick...but I have to go with the king of the Nintendo empire.

First overall pick - Mario.

He's been in way too many games, and is way too recognizable to pass up.

ESPN Insider Report:

The draft does not begin until Monday, but sources inside Vince HQ in Isla Vista report that Vince will draft Mario with the first overall pick. Vince and Mario have reportedly agreed in principle to a seven year contract whose value could exceed $75 million if Mario meets various toadstool smushing incentives.

Mario over Pac Man, interesting. I could see a case for either.

I was so tempted to pick Pac Man...but I just couldn't. Pac Man isn't really my generation (born in '81), and Mario has branched out much more than Pac Man has.

Rumor has it that Donkey Kong failed a drugs test during the off season, and he may drop out of the first round altogether. Kind of expect that kind of news, I mean, look at his physique!

So much for my team of Tecmo LT, Bo, Rice, Cunningham and Okoye with NHL '94 Gretzky and Roenick, Madden '04 Vick, Madden Barry Sanders and Punchout Mike Tyson.

Well what about Glass Joe?

By the rules from above, maybe QB Eagles is eligible? He was pretty darned good... though not exactly Bo.

:p

"I'm gonna make Gretzky's head bleed for Mr. Superfan #99 over here..."

Damn, this completely ruins my idea for a first pick of Michael Jackson.

Man this filled up before I got home. I would have loved to join in :)

Might seem odd that I'm doing this since I just signed up hours ago, but I'm going to relinquish my spot. Probably won't have the time over the next week nor do I believe that I have nearly the character knowledge that some of you probably have. So good luck TargetPractice.

Thanks FargoFreez :)

geez, thanks for blowing that for me. I figured I'd sneak him in later in the draft. I'll probably have to settle for QB Browns now.

QB Bills is way better.

Don't be silly. There's no sneaking QB Eagles. I assume everyone here has logged, oh, a billion hours playing Tecmo.

the thread brings to mind an article I had read in Wired magazine about a group of guys who formed a rock band that plays only music from video games. They even opened for phantom planet... talk about an odd concert.

Anyone ever heard the Super Mario remix of Nine Inch Nail's "Closer"? Turns out the song synchs up almost perfectly with the Mario theme music. Try to find it on Kazaa some time, it's quite odd.

Some friends of mine won a talent search at The Quest in Minneapolis with about 50-60 bands from the area while playing Super Mario Bros music for one song.

Heh, I just downloaded that and am listening to it right now. It's friggin great... :) :D

Yeah. I should have warned, though, that it will ruin "Closer" for you forever.

2. Donkey Kong

Contract negotiations broke down with Pac Man, and my scouting department had him graded evenly. Kong was more than happy to agree to a lifetime contract, consisting entirely of banana futures holdings in the Philippines.

This was a not an easy decision, and I'm not entirely sure I won't regret it. We were dead-set on landing Mario, but it just wasn't meant to be. Having missed out on him, the opportunity to land his original arch-rival was just too good to pass up.

Wow. And already we have our first major rivalry.

If this were a real draft, we'd be cutting to a shot of Pac Man in the stands, wearing a suit and trying not to look too dejected.

Reports are saying Sonic the Hedgehog is upset at the first two picks. Evidentally he doesn't like Nintendo, their alma mater.

Some of my scouts told me they thought Pac-Man may drop a few spots because he's a bit too one-dimensional.

Har Har Har

Pac Man is not worried. Pac Man believes the first two selections are garbage not worthy of his notice. Pac Man plans on showing them the mistake they've made.

Also, don't forget the whole pill-popping thing.

What have you really shown? You're tough against ghosts? Ghosts for chrissake!

There ain't gonna be no ghosts at this level of play. The concerns about your level of competition will be proved true. This is this the big leagues, boy.

Also, you could stand to lose a few.

Pac Man doesn't need to listen to slow witted new school haters. Pac Man has proven himself time and time again.

The game has passed you by.

Crash Bandicoot where are you?

I heard Toe Jam and Earl may be up for the "Misters Irrelevant" pick this year

With the 3rd pick, the Fozzie Bears select:

Samus Aran, Nintendo.

Excellent pick Fozzie, that was actually who I had in mind for my first pick.

The first female selected!

Who?

I would have done really crappy in this draft...

I'm not afraid to say that I don't know who Samus Aran is.

Metroid people, Metroid!

Reach.

Questionable pick at best IMO. I would think that the top 5 or so would really have to be characters that transcend the video game industry into pop culture. I had to do a Google search to figure that one out. But to each his own I guess.

A little early for Aran, but seriously...the first female protagonist in a video game, and I believe the original Metroid for NES debuted in the '80s, which was a pretty phenomenal revelation. Solid pick, if it happened maybe in the late first, early second round, I think.

Seems like a reach, but she wouldn't have been around for his next pick, so it might make sense.

Meanwhile, in the stands, Pac Man munches on some cherries and waits.

I think there are better characters in the Nintendo stable before Samus. Quite the surprise pick!

Mega Man could whip all of you.

Maybe a little high for Samus, but she's worthy of a 1st round pick imho. As has already been said, she was the first female hero in video games, and every one of her games has been really really good.

RH: Jim, this is your agent, Raven Hawk.
Jim: Did anybody draft me yet?
RH: I'm sad to say that the answer is no. You were a stretch for the first round, let alone the top 3 picks.
Jim: Oh, is that all the further the draft has gone?
RH: Yeah.
Jim: Anyways, why are you calling me then?
RH: My fees . . . they haven't been paid.
Jim: So? You don't get paid until after the draft, right?
RH: Wrong. If you check the contract, you owe me 20% of the expected fees as of yesterday.
Jim: I don't have that kind of money! I'm a freakin' earthworm in a spacesuit, man!
RH: That's not my problem. My problem is that I need to get paid.

[ Large Blaster Noise ]

RH: Hello? Hello? Jim?

The waiting is over.

I choose Pacman.

Began in 1980 and still going strong in 2004 with a game coming out for the GBA.

This character spawned other characters and games like Ms. PacMan, Pac-Land, Pac In Time & Pac Attack. Also appeared on every game console known the man including the ever popular Turbografix - 16.

24 years is hard to beat.

*cheers for Pacman*

The question now becomes: when will Ms. Pac-Man be taken? Despite being an obvious knockoff, she was the first female arcade lead character. We saw what that did for Samus.

The real question is when will Luigi be taken?

Id advise you mushroom heads to stop giving away answers.

That's Mr. Mushroom Head to you.

*edit* I just noticed that you and I both have the same amount of posts after this...strangely coincidental.

Sure, I don't know football that well, but I should be doing a Mel Kiper here for video games- you know "Top 10 Characters Not Taken", etc. The problem is that it might give away possible future answers so I suppose not.

SI

Maybe you could comment on each pick :)

Unfortunately, that's just not possible with school starting up. Maybe a set of comments at the end of each round.

SI

Good to see Pac Man finally go.

Corbes is up.

Pac Man is excited for the opportunity, all thanks to God.

Don't forget 2-Pac ;)

I was wondering if Pac Man would slide to me at 5.

I need a franchise leader who has transcended time and platform, inspired countless others, and always arrives to defeat evil wherever it appears.

To lead my intrepid band of video heroes, I choose:

Link

An excellent pick. Link has top three talent, and I'm surprised he slid down this far.

A lot of the classics are flying off the board. I wonder who'll be the first of the current generation stars to go?

Hell yeah Link!

I think Link is a great pick-up in the #5 slot

I was hoping Link would still be around for me :(

OK, folks, as per the rules we'll start enforcing a time limit tomorrow. To start with, the limit will be six hours, although hopefully we can shorten that up once we're past the first round or two.

So whoever's on the clock tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern will have six hours to make a pick. The timed picks will last until 8:00 p.m. (no point expecting people to be here at night). Missed picks will be handled like the NFL: you keep the pick, but other teams can jump ahead of you until you use it.

If you want, pm me a few picks in order before your turn so that I can pick for you to keep things moving.

As of right now, ice is on the clock. Feel free to keep picking between now and tomorrow morning.

Man, so many people I want to pick, but there are so many picks between now and my next pick :(

I know the feeling, Vince...

Hattrick chat has turned into video game chat at least in the pre-game time (#fofc on undernet)

SI

This is so wide open, I have no idea whether my picks are even on other people's radars.

Some suggested reading (tho, keep in mind that GameFAQs is heavily RPG influenced).

hxxp://www.gamefaqs.com/features/contest/c02sumbracket.html
hxxp://www.gamefaqs.com/features/contest/c03sumbracket.html

SI

No kidding. That would be useful if we were doing a draft of only characters from Final Fantasy, though.

The rest of round one will be interesting, I don't think there are any more no-brainer picks.

I think there are 2 more "no-brainer" picks, but that's just me.

SI

I'd take the dot from pong but that's just me...

I was planning on taking the tank from Combat.

I bought an Atari 2600 for the kids this christmas... found it with 120 games on ebay.

I promise to root for whichever team drafts Lara Croft.

One of your "kids" wouldn't happen to be a Staff Sergeant, would he? ;)