Classic Game Endings Online

Game Revolutions has a project running to collect together some of the finest game endings from the 16- and 8-bit eras. Some of the examples they have for viewing via Flash include Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, Flashback, Secret of Mana, and Starfox.

Finally!

[sevenoverzero]

Maybe I can see the ending of Zelda II...

Re:Finally!

[Daniel_Staal]

Maybe I can see the ending of a game!

Maybe not...

[nobodyman]

...it's slashdotted already, DAMN!!!

I'm hoping that they have the ending for Final Fantasy II (US version which I think is actually III or IV in Japan). Back in high school I got so engrossed in that game that I skipped work/school for an entire week. Unfortunately, the threat of being fired, kicked out of the house, and repeating my senior year forced me to put it on hold plus it was a rental, and the late fee was becoming epic.

15 years later, I'm still dying to know how it ended, but I've never bee

Re:Maybe not...

[idonthack]

Final Fantasy II in the US was actually Final Fantasy IV. (It's the one with Cecil the Dark Knight, right?) You could buy the GBA port [google.com] of the game, and play whenever you have time.

Re:Maybe not...

[nobodyman]

(It's the one with Cecil the Dark Knight, right?)

That's it!!! I remember thinking that it wasn't the most heroic of names (unlike, er... Link?) I'll have to scoop that up, thanks.

Re:Finally!

[Verteiron]

Link finally gets some from Zelda. Behind a curtain.

Video Game Museum

[Erioll]

Not flash, but http://www.vgmuseum.com/ [vgmuseum.com] has been around a LONG time and has an extensive archive of endings.

Warning: virus at that vgmuseum site.

[Eric Coleman]

The vgmuseum.com site tried to isntall "Downloader-RK" on my computer via its popup advertisements.

Re:Video Game Museum

[antdude]

Nice! Yeah, no video recordings. It would be great if it collected them.

Re:Video Game Museum

[Bloomy]

Video files are probably overkill for most of the 2D systems. Some games at vgmuseum have animated gifs in their endings, like Castlevania 3 [vgmuseum.com] and Super Mario World [vgmuseum.com]. If you aren't against emulation, you could use save states [emulinks.com] to see games endings in motion.

Re:Finally!

[voice_of_all_reason]

It takes a bit of strategy, but not too much

For thunderbird, use shield and jump, gotta get a rythmn going like Jacquio in Ninja Gaiden because he moves in a pattern across the top of the screen

For Dark Link, use the same technique for Ironknuckle's -- a low jump and stab right at the top of the head. Have to be quick enough so that DL doesn't raise his shield to block it. Shield is better than life, since you should only have enough magic at this point for one cast

Re:Finally!

[dxprog]

Of course, you have to make it to the first palace first :-P

Re:Finally!

[LordVader717]

Dark Link is a piece of cake if you go to left hand corner and just stab into the air over and over. The fucker just keeps on jumping into your sword.

Re:Finally!

[Scoth]

If you want a challenge, beat the game normally then go through it again without getting any heart/magic containers. Most of the game isn't terribly difficult with only 4 heart containers, but the last palace and the Thunderbird are *hard*. You have just enough magic for a Thunder, and the T-bird kills you in two hits. Without Jump, it's hard to get to the T-bird to hit him, and without Shield and Reflect it's nearly impossible to avoid the spewing fire. It took me about a week of on-and-off playing to get

Re:Finally!

[ezratrumpet]

You mean that after all those hours to see the credits roll....they're going to just let people click and WATCH? Horrors!

The Endings of Zelda I and II

[c0d3r]

You fight your own shadow on the end of II... I don't know anyone but me who beat the second adventure of Zelda I.

Re:The Endings of Zelda I and II

[_xeno_]

You fight your own shadow on the end of II... I don't know anyone but me who beat the second adventure of Zelda I.

I did. I'm pretty sure everyone else in my family did too, including my mother and father, although I could be wrong. (I know they actually played some ways into it, but I'm not sure how far into it.) I think Zelda remains the only video game that everyone in my family actually played together, since the Nintendo was new and cool at the time.

I've since repeated through both adventures on

I'm Sorry, But the Princess is in Another Castle.

[Stavr0]

Much funnier would be a list of the worst/unintentionally funny game endings.

(A winner is you.)

Re:I'm Sorry, But the Princess is in Another Castl

[default luser]

"Mission Complete"

"You are the greatest player"

"Password: TGL"

From The Guardian Legend, an excellent top-down platformer plus vertical shooter. I spent months playing that game, gave up, then picked it up again and finally beat it. Too bad the ending sucked, the game is great.

Then there's the ending from Wizards & Warriors. FUN, FUN game, but after you beat the final boss...you save yet another maiden, and that's it. Yay, you get to put in your high score, which will be reset when you turn off the N

Corrected Firefox Link

[WidescreenFreak]

Here is the correct link [gamerevolution.com] for Starfox.

Personally, I wish that they didn't restrict themselves to consoles. There were a lot of Commodore, Amiga, and early PC games that had great endings.

Re:Corrected Firefox Link

[IgLou]

Oh hell yeah. Like Karateka!!! You can die in the ending. It was classic!

Re:Corrected Firefox Link

[WidescreenFreak]

Yes, I remember getting whacked on that ending the first time.

For those who don't know, if you walked up to the princess (I believe that she was a princess anyway), you would have been in an attack stance and she killed you in one kick. You had to run into her arms. The real kicker (pun intended): there was no "save game" feature and it could have taken hours to get to the ending. Play for hours, walk up, receive kick, die, start all over again. Desire to beat the sh!t out of the programmers at Broder

Re:Corrected Firefox Link

[nickos]

I remember a cool game on the Amiga called Flood. The objective of the game was to escape hundreds of levels of flooding underground caverns and get to the surface. The ending saw the player (a little green monster) climp out of a manhole on to a busy street, and as he's jumping for joy he gets run over by a truck.

Classic.

Chrono Trigger

[Eightyford]

Chrono Trigger should take up half of the article.

Hah, I'll see your 12 Chrono Trigger Endings

[rsilvergun]

and raise you the 86 from Star Ocean 2.

There were 13 of them

[neostorm]

And unlike Star Ocean 2, they were all different.

Take that non-believer!

OT: SoM MMORPG on sf.net

[dextromulous]

If you were a big fan of Secret of Mana, there's a MMORPG on sf.net that tries to capture the feel of SoM. The sf.net page [sourceforge.net] The main website [themanaworld.org]

Like most projects on sf.net, it's under development and isn't out of alpha, so be gentle with it... and if you like it and can contribute to it (pixel artists, anyone?,) please do!

Re:OT: SoM MMORPG on sf.net

[bluemeep]

*bookmarks*

eAthena? They based it on Ragnarok Online, huh? Makes sense, since RO and the Seiken Densetsu titles play pretty similarly.

Re:OT: SoM MMORPG on sf.net

[dextromulous]

I'm pretty sure the new server end is being written as we speak, and will be rolled out hopefully in the next release. Currently, however, yes, it is using eAthena.

Still trying to finish a couple games

[gasmonso]

I've been using MAME to play some old games. After 15 years, I still can't finish Rolling Thunder! What an awesome game that was. I did however finish Ikari Warriors. Damn, I'm old :(

http://religiousfreaks.com/ [religiousfreaks.com]

Re:Still trying to finish a couple games

[Farmer Tim]

I'm still trying to finish Space Invaders...

SMB 2?

[fishybell]

Where's my "it was all a dream" from mario brothers 2?

Re:SMB 2?

[apoc06]

i heard that too, but it didnt make much sense to me that they would bring back and start to incorporate enemies and characters from SMB2 into later SMB titles.

Why don't you...

[Eightyford]

Why don't you just find out for yourself? link [game-oldies.com]

Re:Why don't you...

[giblfiz]

mod parent up... usefull

My favorite game ending

[Henry V .009]

I beat Infocom's game Enchanter by (somewhat accidently) exploiting a couple of game bugs. So I didn't have full points at the end. This wasn't ever supposed to happen of course, but there was still a cool ending where the circle of Enchanters expressed vague disappointment in my deeds, saying that "something was missing."

Re:My favorite game ending

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Enchanter was an awesome game.. I was "missing" the documentation for my copy back in the day, and played it for years through trial and error. There was something magical about those Infocom games. :)

Great!

[WMD_88]

Maybe now I can finally figure out how Tetris ends!

Re:Great!

[spune]

On the Gameboy version, winning Game B, level 9, 5 high results in a ending sequence. First, a bunch of dancers and musicians perform for you, then you watch a shuttle launch.

In Game A, attaining certain high scores is rewarded with smaller spacecraft launches, started with a puny probe and going up in size to some moderately impressing rockets.

Yeti chow

[Anonymous Coward]

Eaten by the yeti [ihoc.net] in SkiFree. [ihoc.net]

Not a console game, but it is "16-bit".

Re:Good thing it's not for modern games

[apoc06]

theres an ending for halo2? i mustve blocked it out...

very disappointing end to an otherwise good single player campaign. i think they got caught up in the whole trilogy trap. more 'the empire strikes back' and 'the two towers [book]', less 'matrix reloaded'. cliffhangers are nice and all, but resolve /something/!!!!

The Best Ever game ending is missing

[DrSkwid]

Duke Nukem 3D

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/duke-nukem-3d/sc reenshots/gameShotId,5640/ [mobygames.com]

Sadly the best bit isn't there, where Duke rips off the head of the Overlord and shits down his neck !!

Ending to end all endings.

Time ticks away until I can play it again :

http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d [edgenetwork.org]

Ninja gaiden

[Intangion]

it took me 10 years to beat ninja gaiden, and i had to cheat on it ;)

i remember calling up a couple friends bragging that i had beaten it in 1999 (ten years after its release)

the main boss could kill you in like 3 hits, and you seemed to have to take a hit to hit him, and you had to hit him like 16 times.. i had to save state after every couple hits and edit the save so i would have full health, then load it, and get 2 more hits ;) ... repeat 8 times or so

Re:Ninja gaiden

[YukiKotetsu]

Pathetic, really! Okay... so the original Ninja Gaiden was mighty tough, and in fact so were 2 and 3. My brother and I used to keep a list of games we had rented and beaten, trying to pretend we were like the super player awesome kid in "The Wizard" or whatever, and we were mightily skilled.

Anyhow, it took us about a week to beat Ninja Gaiden. I remember the last boss being something else. About the same time to beat Ninja Gaiden 2, and never could beat the boss of 3. Maybe it's time to fire up some RO

Re:Ninja gaiden

[Bloomy]

My brother and I spent a lot of time with the Ninja Gaiden games. I think I only beat the first one once, my brother never did. Having to fight through the entire last level or two after dying during any of the final boss fights got very frustrating, and our efforts were usually thwarted by dinner, bed or "get outside and do something."

We both mastered the second one, but he was better than I was. I saw him beat it in 16 minutes, he claimed he was able to get it down to 14. I could beat it in close to

Re:Ninja gaiden

[bckrispi]

You did it the hard way :)

It's tremendously easier if you use the Spiral Attack available (much) earlier in the level. He'll die in about 2-3 hits.

Re:Ninja gaiden

[Intangion]

so thats the trick ;)
*scurries off to beat it all over again :)*

NESVideos

[slavemowgli]

Many game endings can also be seen in the tool-assisted game movies on http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/ [bisqwit.iki.fi] . In fact, you get more than just the endings there - you also get to see the entire games, played perfectly (or at least nearly so).

(And for the record, no, I'm not affiliated with that site in any way or shape at all - I'm just a fan who enjoys those movies.)

Flashback

[Spy der Mann]

I got this game because it was produced by the creators of "Another World". But it turned out to be much better. The visuals, the story, and the gameplay were all great, but what I liked the most was the music.

How many of you guys have played it?

Re:Flashback

[antdude]

Great game, but hard!!! Same for "Another World". I never finished both! :(

Re:Flashback

[grumbel]

Would recomment you download a walkthrough for Another World, once you know what to do game its not very difficult and not really long either, can be played through in 30-40min.

Re:Flashback

[LordP]

Flashback was one of the first games I completed fully (most other games I get bored with long before the end). I didn't really pay much attention to the music, but overall the game was awesome.

I'd be cool if someone could do a remake [remakes.org] of it for newer generation computers.

I haven't played Another World personally, but a friend showed me the ending, and I have to say it just blew me away. I mean, that's not how it's supposed to end, is it? :)

Flashback engine remake

[Spy der Mann]

http://membres.lycos.fr/cyxdown/reminiscence/ [lycos.fr]

The only bad thing i have with this is that i can't roll as easily as i used to. It's as if the down key would get stuck :( bummer.

Re:Flashback

[Limburgher]

Loved it on the SNES. Too bad I traded it to a friend of mine after I beat it. Most fluid motion I've ever seen in a platformer.

They made a seuqel

[DoctaWatson]

it was called "Fade To Black" [the-underdogs.org], but it wasn't very much like the original.

A great ending to this site! Digg and /.!

[antdude]

It was also on Digg [digg.com]. Poor site. Actually, that would be a great ending too. [grin] :)

Cinematics?

[StocDred]

Hey, wait a minute, I thought we hated cinematics in video games [slashdot.org]? I guess since these are ending movies, they're okay? Or since they're nostalgic, they're okay?

Seriously, what a cool idea. Now get somebody working on capturing all the other cutscenes so I can watch complete mini-movies of favorite game storylines without having to dedicate 10-20 hours to playing them again.

Re:Cinematics?

[bluemeep]

Hey, wait a minute, I thought we hated cinematics in video games? I guess since these are ending movies, they're okay? Or since they're nostalgic, they're okay?

Well, the earlier rant was about having gameplay actually interrupted by the little beggars. A cool ending cinema is a big different from having the game pause every five minutes for some random tidbit of motion capture. Ever line yourself up for a tough platform jump only to have the game shove an FMV under your nose right before you take off, se

Best. Ending. Ever.

[YukiKotetsu]

Ultima Exodus for the NES.

I played for 11 months to finally figure out/beat this damned game, and what do I get?

The credits scroll, then it says, "Thank you for playing, see you next game."

F that. Next game? I promptly threw that damned cartridge against the wall.

Granted, it was my first taste of some real RPG fun on the NES. Dragon Warrior was alright, but Ultima Exodus was some crack rock - only to be toppled by Final Fantasy.

Re:Best. Ending. Ever.

[Tofino]

What about the ending to Ultima 9 or was it 10? The 3d one, Ascention. After playing tons of Ultima games and going through decades of well-written Avatar adventures, we get... a 45 second techno song.

What about the end of a web server?

[CuriousGeorge113]

What about posting a video showing the end of their webserver after posting a link on /.

SEGA Fantasy VI

[Chemical]

If you've got half an hour to waste, check out this Flash parody of the Final Fantasy VI (III) ending. [dontpressstart.com]

Re:SEGA Fantasy VI

[ToxikFetus]

I'm pretty well-versed in console history and I've beaten FF6(3), but I'm not sure if I even got half of those references! Damn funny though.

"Game Over"

[Megane]

The ending to all true classic games, as in before the NES, is "Game Over". They are supposed to just get harder and harder until you finally die more times than you get free ships/lives/whatever.

Slashdotted

[idonthack]

Welcome, Slashdotters... You have successfully pounded our servers into submission. They give up.

:(

Re:Slashdotted

[wuie]

That is the worst ending to a website slashdotting ever. :(

Eye of the Beholder

[tangent3]

Anyone remembers the ending from Eye of the Beholder?
2 pages of text, then get thrown out to C:\>
I simply sat there amazed.

Fortunately, the ending from Eye of the Beholder II was great and more than made up for it.

Speccy Spoilers

[malf-uk]

Endings for a load of Sinclair ZX Spectrum games can be found here:

http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/ [speccyspoilers.co.uk]

Best ending...

[Faw]

...anywhere (computer or console) is Fallout 1.

Torrent, please?

[ClioCJS]

Can somebody please post a torrent of the SWF files so I can download them and watch them full-screen on my 36-inch TV, the same way I would if a console were hooked up to it?

In-browser flash sucks. And I'm lazy.