Everything2
Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Everything2

Memorable lines from computer games

created by Footprints

(idea) by Footprints (4.1 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Dec 28 2000 at 17:35:37

It sad to say, but there are several lines from computer games that have become part of my everyday jargon. In fact, it is not only me. Often I hear someone say a strange sentence in a strange tone of voice that fits the situation perfectly, and he says "What, you didn't play Montezuma's Revenge?" or some other well known game. And then I remember. So I guess everything affects us, and becomes incorporated into our personalities, even non-human sentences. Maybe it's all part of the plan of the computers to take us over.

Anyway, only 2 games come to mind, but what 2 games!

Mission: Impossible (or was it Impossible Mission?) Who remembers?* It was on Commodore 64 (remember them?). It yielded the two greatest sentences in the history of computer games:

And Baldur's Gate, which produced the following memorable lines:
  • A waste of my talents!
  • I am done.
  • Magic is good and well, but now Minsk leads. SWORDS FOR EVERYONE!
  • Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes.

*Accipiter, actually. "it was Impossible Mission. Epyx made it."


2004.2.1@12:54 Kit says What about the now-infamous "All your base are belong to us."? Indeed.


(thing) by Ryouga (2.3 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Dec 28 2000 at 18:23:19

Diablo:
  • "Stay a while, and listen." - Cain
  • "I can't use this... yet." - PCs
  • "Ahhh... fresh meat." - The Butcher
StarCraft:
Misc:

(idea) by Cow Of Doom (3.2 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Dec 28 2000 at 18:37:33

Sam and Max Hit the Road:
  • Max: Mind if I drive?
    Sam: Not if you don't mind me clawing at the dash and shrieking like a cheerleader.
From Manny Calavera, protagonist of Grim Fandango: LucasArts adventure games are among the funniest things ever, right between The Simpsons and Douglas Adams' books in the collective mind of Geeks everywhere. God love 'em.

(idea) by Spuunbenda (3.8 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Dec 28 2000 at 18:48:24

From Gauntlet:
"Wizard needs food badly"
"Elf shot the food"

Just about anything from Monkey Island.

From Spaceward Ho!:
"Yeeeee-hah!"
"Much obliged..."

From Marathon:
"Frog blast the vent core!"
"Shoot somebody else, ok?"

In Sinistar, which was one of the scariest games till Doom, I think it was actually, "I hunger", then "Run, coward!" And then the thing would come sweeping in at you, laughing menacingly. The coolest thing about that game was how good it was at making you feel you were playing in a world that extended WAY beyond the edges of the screen.


(idea) by MrFurious (2.1 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Dec 28 2000 at 18:50:18

Starcraft:
  • "Battle cruiser operational!" (I can produce the original russian accent too)
Warcraft: Doom II:

(idea) by ClockworkGrue (9.2 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Sat Apr 14 2001 at 3:41:25

Don't forget the classic line from the Zork series (as well as a few other Infocom classics):

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

> _

I'm going to put that phrase on a black glow-in-the-dark t-shirt. I think having the glowing command prompt makes it spookier, don't you?


printable version
chaos

Frog blast the vent core! Run, you pigeons, it's Robert Frost! grue Why males have nipples
Live by the sword, die by the arrow You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike Sam and Max Hit the Road Stay awhile... stay forever!
Sinistar Grim Fandango All your base are belong to us American McGee's Alice
The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All There can be only one Go for the eyes, Boo! A winner is you
Video game advertising slogans Monkey Island Zork Montezuma's Revenge
Spaceward Ho! Gauntlet Impossible Mission Robert Frost
No more writeups are being accepted for this node. GAME OVER. Please do not insert writeup to continue. (Thanks, fondue.) Now run along and play another game, m'kay? If you feel you have something to add to this node, post it on your Scratch Pad and contact an editor.
  Epicenter
Login
Password

password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Cool Staff Picks
After stirring Everything, these nodes rose to the top:
Truman Capote
Potato sack dresses
E2 Prose Writers Group
Milgram Experiment
Panama hat
Pablo Neruda
Measurements based on the human body
Pain
A short history in a long scar
Helping someone learn how, and why, to appreciate text
William Walker
SA-10 Grumble
Katharine Hepburn
New Writeups
Mythi
July 24, 2008(personal)
locke baron
The fall of Earth(fiction)
BookReader
Fear the Cold(dream)
Pavlovna
Kathleen MacInnes(person)
stainedglass
1(fiction)
kalen
Three "T"s(idea)
octillion369
Undead(idea)
archiewood
Ico(fiction)
Heisenberg
Why I love Everything2(log)
octillion369
Death Knight(person)
XWiz
Are you hoping for a miracle?(review)
santo
The Host(review)
LostPsion
"Shut the Fuck Up" Theaters(idea)
beatrice
You've been slowly taking me over for nearly a year, do you know that?(idea)
Berek
YouTube(thing)
This page courtesy of The Everything Development Company