2) "There's something scratched in the glass... "Feeding time... that's our chance"

Final Fantasy VII

In the Shinra Mansion Underground lab, if you examine one of the glass cylinders, Cloud says that.

Easy one for a FF nerd like me.

Panda and Nemesis, you have to put a question, too.. :P

Excellent.

I'm sorry to do this to you guys but I'm going to go dead console on you fools. It's a pretty dead game, but people who own it will get it right off the bat, please, try to not goto google. =^P

Floating blue skull of death, Hyato, Demons taking over Japan in one night, SEGA's Castlevania.

Nemisis got mine right.. ther eare still a few more to go! come on people!

3) ChApTeR SeVeN; CrY HaVoC! AnD LeT SlIp ThE DoGs Of WaR! Juleas Caesar Act III Scene I 275

another tip for the one above.. "There's a brute outside just waiting to make me his bitch."

4) "I'm gonna be... ok." "You're dieing."

5) "YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!!!! I HAD THE FUCKING <snip>"

i wont let you see that last part or that..

6) You're now entering level 1 stage 127a. You need the crystal ball found on stage 99 to move on to level 2.

Ok.. try to guess those

6) You're now entering level 1 stage 127a. You need the crystal ball found on stage 99 to move on to level 2.

That wasn't gauntlet, was it? I can't think of anything else that had that many stages, and that if you missed an item early on, you were screwed later.

No. It's not guantlet. I know guantlet (hint hint).

It's some game in the Super Mario Brothers genera, but without resorting to a search engine I don't know which one. I never was much of a console gamer.

you guys are SO off.. NES game, no Super mario bros or anythnig like that.

Yeah, well, I've still got like 6 that no one has guessed.

And 4 of those are ones that I would think every geek would know the answer to.

i know the elf 1! i just cant remember it!!! wait!! brain fart ending!!! gauntlet!!!


or did someone get that already? i swear with everyone answering gauntlet to everything, someone should have.

Yep, that's right. Gauntlet. The original massively multiplayer game. All of _four_ people could play at the same time.

"Elf, your life force is draining."

"The Elf needs food badly."

"The Elf is about to die."

Ohh... Gauntlet... Was that the one they have as an arcade game? Everyone says it's really good...

In the arcade, that I know of, there has been Gauntlet, Gaunlet II, and Gauntlet Legends.

Gauntlet Legends was in the arcade about 2 years ago. It was 3D polygons with a isometric perspective, and suficiently unlike the original 2D animated sprites with gods eye view to be essentially a completely different game. Unless you'd played the original, I wouldn't recommend it. It's a nostalgia thing. When Gauntlet Legends came out the game play it offered was essentially old hat, but there has never been a sensation like the original Gauntlet. When the consoles first hit the arcades, people would literally stand in line for hours to play. Lines would form that would stretch clear out of the arcade and out into the mall like a movie theater. It may be hard for you to imagine but the idea of 4 person cooperative multiplayer seemed stunning at the time (actually one game had gotten there before gauntlet), and the multiple seemingly infinite levels of play was dazzling to us as yet unweaned '80's gamers. We had seen the future, and it awed us.

I remember being awed at the idea of cooperative play when I stumbled out of a theatre with a bunch of friends in sixth grade, and found Golden Axe. We spent something like twenty bucks in quarters that day, and still didn't beat it.

celebrim:

>>>An invisible maze, a red dragon, and this -> is your sword.
(for some reason this is ringing all kinds of bells, but i cant come up with a name)

>>>Getting use to the brand new '3D' perspective made threading those little gaps in the walls a pain.

since no one else seems to have picked up on your little hint.. uhh gauntlet legends



>>>8 stones, 8 shrines, 8 runes, 8 mantras, a bell, a book, and a candle.
I'm going to say Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss.

I'll post my contribution to this insanity tomorrow, i need to check on some exact wording

">>>An invisible maze, a red dragon, and this -> is your sword.
(for some reason this is ringing all kinds of bells, but i cant come up with a name)"

Ok, hint: It shares the name of the first video game ever made, and is itself the first of its kind. It doesn't show up right with every font, but when I write '->', I'm trying to make an arrow shape.

">>>Getting use to the brand new '3D' perspective made threading those little gaps in the walls a pain.

uhh gauntlet legends"

No, I'm thinking of the first arcade game ever with an isometric perspective.

">>>8 stones, 8 shrines, 8 runes, 8 mantras, a bell, a book, and a candle.
I'm going to say Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss."

Right world, but you are a year or two too late on the game. I never finished UU, but I don't think it had 8 shrines and 8 mantras in it. I'll give you partial credit if it does.

The first arcade game that I can think of with a Isometric view is Smash T.V.

There aren't many games come to mind when I think of Noughts And Crosses. But I think you are trying to think of that one atari gme where the duck is chasing you around and it's really annoying.

Since no one guessed mine, or even tried casue no one even knows of Sega anymore, or the cool way to say Sega, I'm just going to tell you all what the game is.

Kenseiden for the Sega Master System.

If you've never played this, well then it's no wonder your friends with Master systems called you a nintendo n00b. This was the king of all games at the time and was barely known. I suggest you get a copy and try it out, it's a awesome game and Metriod borrowed a lot from it.

>>Right world, but you are a year or two too late on the game. I never finished UU, but I don't think it had 8 shrines and 8 mantras in it. I'll give you partial credit if it does.

in that case celebrim,

Exodus Ultima 1, 2, 3, or 4. I havent played them since the C64 so i cant remember which one fits the exact specifics. I'm going to say probably number 2, since 4 featured spell components not runes, i dont think 1 had introduced the mantra's yet, and for #3 i'd have expected some reference to the silver serpent.

but for the record UU stygian abyss did have
8 shrines (there was one located on each level, they took the form of an ankh, standing upright in the ground, on level 1 the shrine was in the goblin city in the north west part of the level),
8 mantras( 1 for each of the 8 basic attributes, when you leveled up you could chant one of the mantra's (if you had learned it) at a shrine to improve skills that used that as attribute as a base)
8 stones each that had a specific rune associated with it (one of the puzzles on the 7th level if i remember correctly)
and a bell, a book, and a candle as talismans, or course UU actually had 8 talismans, not just 3, and it did have like 64 magical runes to cast spells with.. so partial credit is up to you.

now for my contribution.

(1) lightning bolts, Pillars of flame & hero's, but only with enough devoted followers.

(2) "A Quest of love, Ends with me; Yet I am made, Endlessly; If I drop, I say my name; If I touch Rock, Freedon Gain."

(3) watch out for that ghost!!!!!

Celebrim:
>No, I'm thinking of the first arcade game ever with an isometric perspective.

Wouldn't that be Q*bert?


Spellcast:
>(3) watch out for that ghost!!!!!

Pac-Man!

'Wouldn't that be Q*bert?'

That's a good thought, but the game I'm thinking of beat Q*Bert by a year and had a sequel come out about the same time as Q*Bert. So what game had you navigating gaps in walls in 3D as early as 1982? Panda, you are showing your age. Smash TV (a great game BTW) came out in 1990, a full 8 years after I first played the game I'm thinking of in the arcade.

'lightning bolts, Pillars of flame & hero's, but only with enough devoted followers.'

I played that game but I'm not sure of the title - I think it was called 'Populous'.

And another one for fans of Smash TV:

"Your mission is to save the last human family on Earth."