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The Intersection of Gaming and Futurama
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Zonk
on Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:42 PM
from the choke-on-that-causality dept.
from the choke-on-that-causality dept.
Nerds made Futurama. You probably already knew that. As you can imagine, these nerds played a lot of games during the making of the show. Games ended up in the show a lot, too. Game|Life's Chris Kohler delves deeply into this connection over a series of articles; for example, did you know that Zoidberg was named for a variant of Qix ? Or that the creators of the show were big pinball players? Probably the most obvious combination of games and the show was the amazing episode Raiders of the Lost Arcade. "The evil alien is joined by his evil arcade comrades: Donkey Kong, a fried egg from Burger Time, a robot from Berserk, a brain from Robotron. Q*bert is also there, and he spouts some characteristically garbled dialogue which, when played backwards, is revealed to be "Where can a guy get some pants around here?""
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Yet still no Futurama game... (Score:1)
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Re:Yet still no Futurama game... (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Yet still no Futurama game... (Score:5, Informative)
Really [wikipedia.org]?
There was a game.
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And dear god was it terrible. (Score:2)
Futurama defeated me with it's frustrating gameplay and just general crapitude.
I LOVE futurama, but even the odd quote didn't stop me giving up after the millionth time bender fell off something and died.
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I play quite a few games and usually all the way through.
Futurama defeated me with it's frustrating gameplay and just general crapitude.
I LOVE futurama, but even the odd quote didn't stop me giving up after the millionth time bender fell off something and died.
I hear that. I couldn't get past the part where you had to spend several minutes getting bender to a part where you had to jump from girder to girder, only to have the crappy controls kill you in seconds. I love Futurama, but the only thing I like about the game is the fact that it exists on my shelf.
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The Futurama characters and story are the only reason I kept playing. If it was some generic platformer... I'd like to put the little bastard in a sack and toss the sack in a river and hurl the river into space! (thanks Hermes!)
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I found it challenging and fun. now my 9 year old son is playing it. Yes, he is going through it faster then I did. He's smart, talented, and very good at games.
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The Futurama game story was great! (Score:2)
best episode ever (Score:4, Funny)
Re:best episode ever (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:best episode ever (Score:5, Funny)
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Could you phrase that in the form of a "what if?" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Could you phrase that in the form of a "what if (Score:5, Funny)
"Oh yea"
Large bet on myself in the first round.
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Re:Could you phrase that in the form of a "what if (Score:5, Funny)
Fry: "Nobody correct him!"
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Pure joy over Twilight Zone pinball comments. (Score:2)
And once again... (Score:5, Informative)
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Yes! (Score:1)
(Half of my brain would like to think that I'm joking)
Misuse of technical terms? From Wired? (Score:3, Interesting)
The article raises a good point -- how DOES one "dump the ROM" off a floppy diskette?
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Re:Misuse of technical terms? From Wired? (Score:4, Funny)
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I even still have working hardware.
If it is standardized Br0derbund copy protection, I'd bet that some parms from Copy II Plus would still work on it.
But I'd hate to be resp
Ah, pinball (Score:2)
That, and hearing that wonderful *CRACK!* on one's first go at a new machine. Heh.
Ah, Addams Family pinball, how I love you.
I'd love you, too, Johnny Mneumonic, if that damned magnet hand thing wasn't always broken on every single one of those machines in existence, except for a one-week window after the repair guy's
lynxcache mirror (Score:1)