The worst thing that can happen to you in a video game

[lordnacho]

When you stop playing and realize how many hours of your life you've wasted played 

[Malenko]

....un-plug it and put it in a high place. Why am I the voice of reason, here??

How do you unplug a wireless 360 controller?

[wp34]

Ha! No doubt. I remember, standing there, reading every word on the box, studying the pictures and hoping it wouldn't suck. I remember the disappointment I felt when I put in my freshly purchased Adventure cart in my Atari that I got for my birthday. I picked it myself at K-mart. I mean, look at the box:


So much promise...

I forced myself to play it and eventually learned to love it. It's now one of my favorites on the atari. The dragons sometimes still scare me if I advance to a new screen and there is one right there chomping at me. Oh, and that damn bat...

+1 -- right down to the dragons startling me.  One of my all-time favorites.

[Gray_Area]

....un-plug it and put it in a high place. Why am I the voice of reason, here??

How do you unplug a wireless 360 controller?

They didn't say what kind of controllers they was using. But if they were wireless, totally no excuse.

...my freshly purchased Adventure cart...The dragons sometimes still scare me if I advance to a new screen and there is one right there chomping at me.

+1 -- right down to the dragons startling me.  One of my all-time favorites.

I think the dragon in Odyssey2's Quest for the Rings was way scarier. You had to run by it, it blew ---smurfing--- fire at you, which sometimes could be deflected with your sword (warrior) or magic bolt (wizard), and the fire made noise! Plus it looked more like a dragon, rather than a goose.  I don't recall whether you could kill the dragon, though. Maybe. That game was actually pretty involved. It had a board with pieces you moved around, and there was a special key overlay for the keyboard on the Odyssey. We never used it, we just wanted to play the game, but it was pretty advanced in that regard.

[leapinlew]

....un-plug it and put it in a high place. Why am I the voice of reason, here??

How do you unplug a wireless 360 controller?

They didn't say what kind of controllers they was using. But if they were wireless, totally no excuse.

...my freshly purchased Adventure cart...The dragons sometimes still scare me if I advance to a new screen and there is one right there chomping at me.

+1 -- right down to the dragons startling me.  One of my all-time favorites.

I think the dragon in Odyssey2's Quest for the Rings was way scarier. You had to run by it, it blew ---smurfing--- fire at you, which sometimes could be deflected with your sword (warrior) or magic bolt (wizard), and the fire made noise! Plus it looked more like a dragon, rather than a goose.  I don't recall whether you could kill the dragon, though. Maybe. That game was actually pretty involved. It had a board with pieces you moved around, and there was a special key overlay for the keyboard on the Odyssey. We never used it, we just wanted to play the game, but it was pretty advanced in that regard.

No, my dragon was scarier. Your dragon sucks on a suck system so suck it. <smiley face intentionally not inserted>

[Vigo]

Sorry, have not been able to take that freakin' dragon seriously since the Homestar days.



and the quest for the ring dragon looked like a sneezing dinosaur.



I totally call scariest bad guy in an old videogame. It was the SS in the original (2D) wolfenstein. I could be happily picking locks on boxes, opening doors, donning a nazi uniform to fool the grunt level guards, planning out the strategy to take out a couple ignorant Nazis....and nothing but eerie silence. Then out of no where an SS Pops in the room swearing at you in german and in a panic you run into the wall and collapse. Only seconds before he reaches you and you manage to get up, unload most your bullets on him only to have every shot fail from the bullet proof vest he is wearing. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---! Even more panicked, and out of bullets, you sprint past the clueless guards and clear into the next room. Blast the last two bullets at the guard that appears right in front of you. Out of some stroke of luck, the only other guard around is ignorantly watching some random corner and is out of sight. You find a narrow hallway to duck down at the same time the SS enters the room and start hunting your ass down like he is some invincible terminator, and you find you just ran down a corridor with a locked door. With precious few seconds left, you try the keys you took off of a dead nazi, fumbling around, you come to the conclusion that you are too scared and out of time to get the keys to work. With only a few seconds left, you pray you have a grenade on you, Yes! One grenade! You reach in, and throw your grenade in his unthinkable face right as he rounds the corner. Then, the very moment you see victory over the dreaded SS, you realize you are too close to the blast radius and blew up yourself in the process. Screen goes to gray, you're dead. 




(And nobody bring up the fact that the SS is some handless guy in purple footie pajamas. He is super scary you guys.)

[lilshawn]

How about wandering around in final fantasy doing nothing in particular at 4 am...half asleep...the music...is all quiet.. in...cave...you start dozing off...and...you're still walking...then SCRANG! RANDOM FIGHT EVENT!



 

[michelevit]

Your friends ridicule you because  of your dedicated Pause button.
They hit the dedicated ESC button you approach a high score.

[PL1]

Your friends ridicule you because  of your dedicated Pause button.
They hit the dedicated ESC button you approach a high score.

Sounds autobiographical.

That kind of trauma could explain his obsessive anti-pause-button rants in this thread.   

Seek professional help, dude. 


Scott

[Gray_Area]

Ah, lewis.......


@Vigo: and he still looks probably the baddest ass of anything short of Colecovision.