# Counterpoint- Funny Video Games **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063 "2004-03-02T06:11:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/1 "2004-03-02T06:11:35Z")
Because nobody wants to be scared every time they sit down and play a game. You Don’t Know Jack: The only game that’s made me laugh consistently. Hell, I’d often answer wrong intentionally just to hear what the hell the announcer would say. Go! Go! Hypergrind: It’s Spumco, ferchrissakes. Space Quest series: Bloody hilarious, albeit a bit TOO easy to die in some places. Leisure Suit Larry series: Al Lowe has the honor of making the first adult oriented game that ran under EGA that was actually worth playing. Sam & Max Hit The Road: I’m playing through this one again. Thanks, scummvm! And of course the Parodius series. Japan only. Take an experimentally high dose of benadryl, put on the Blue Velvet-style gas mask, then try playing Gradius. It won’t be as weird as Parodius. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/2 "2004-03-02T06:38:42Z")
Serious Sam made me chuckle a few times. Majesty has a humorous slant to it. No One Lives Forever 2. Where else can you ride a scotsman that’s riding a tricycle through a level? ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/3 "2004-03-02T06:44:02Z")
The Monkey Island series of games, excluding the fairly disappointing fourth one. Three straight games of hilarious piratical brilliance, infused with the essence of monkey. The third game, _The Curse of Monkey Island,_ features beautiful watercolor cartoon art to boot. _You Don’t Know Jack!_ is as good today as it ever was, and the graphics haven’t dated a bit thanks to its emphasis on pre-rendered sprites that smoothly flow into each other. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/4 "2004-03-02T07:04:33Z")
A second for _NOLF 2_, but I would include the original _No One Lives Forever_ as well. They made the most out of the female operative - pure genius. ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/5 "2004-03-02T07:33:05Z")
**Conker’s Bad Fur Day** - Hilarious, raunchy and actually quite fun. Brilliant game. **You Don’t Know Jack 1-5** - One of the best multiplayer games ever! Any word on a 6th? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/6 "2004-03-02T07:52:39Z")
**Fallout 1 & 2** were both pretty funny. The dancing dinosaurs and dumb cavemen in **Trog** were hilarious if you were good enough at the game to be able to watch them. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/7 "2004-03-02T08:23:49Z")
_Sam and Max Hit the Road_ is the king. I _still_ frequently say _“The weed of crime bears bitter fruit – but it makes a great milkshake!”_ Usually when serving up green milkshakes. _looks around nervously_ _Duke Nukem 3D_ made me laugh a few times. “I’m going to rip off your head and shit down your neck” is not something I _expected_ to hear from a cutscene back then. Does Infocom’s _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ text adventure count, or is that cheating? ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/8 "2004-03-02T09:03:03Z")
Another vote for _NOLF2_ (and the original as well). I’ll add _MDK_ 1 & 2, the first was the only game I have played where the enemies taunted you by shaking their asses toward your sniper scope. _Grim Fandango_ and _Armed & Dangerous_ were funny games from LucasArts, the former an adventure game and the latter a shooter. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/9 "2004-03-02T12:02:11Z")
Yeah, _Sam & Max_ pretty much get the crown in my opinion, too. The second game on my personal list would be another LucasArts game, _Maniac Mansion 2_, mostly for the in-game dialogue. Specifically when you send the moronic teen back in time. > [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Duke Nukem 3D made me laugh a few times. “I’m going to rip off your head and shit down your neck” is not something I expected to hear from a cutscene back then. It didn’t strike me as over the top funny, until he actually _does_ it at the end of the cutscene, going so far as to sit down with a newspaper on the stump of the bad guy’s neck. ---
**Author:** ![Verick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@Verick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verick)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/10 "2004-03-02T12:58:27Z")
Giants: Citizen Kabuto Most amusing game I’ve ever played. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/11 "2004-03-02T17:16:33Z")
Gonna go with any adventure game made by LucasGames (excluding maybe Loom since I never played it.) Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Indiana Jones, and the oft mentioned Sam & Max. Another LucasGames console game that was hilarious not for any dialog but for the situation was **Zombie Ate My Neighbors!** Leisure Suit Larry series was great. Definitely You Don’t Know Jack. Biggest laugh I had was in YDKJ vol 1, not knowing a Gibberish Question and typing in “F_ck You" Cookie didn’t take kindly to that. "What did you just say? You think just because you’re a guest you can get away with that? F_ck me? No no no. F_ck you." And you lost $10,000. But then Cookie comes back…"Did I say 'f_ck you’? I meant F\*CK YOU!” And there goes $100,000 making it impossible to come back. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/12 "2004-03-02T18:07:52Z")
Though most of the games I play only have funny ‘bits’ or ‘easter eggs’, I find. Like the \*Baldur’s Gate \* series, or _Planescape : Torment_. Of course, there’re the funny voice clips in \*StarCraft \* and _WarCraft_. Let’s see… _Disgaea_, for the PS2, is a riot if you’re an anime fan at all. _Duke Nukem 3D_ was already mentioned, but it’s pretty much the only first-person shooter game I will play, because of the plethora of humorous references. _You Don’t Know Jack_, especially the Movie and TV versions, rock. Stay after the game for the funny commercial parodies. I’ll try to think of more. ---
**Author:** ![Vezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b38774/32.png) [@Vezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vezer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/13 "2004-03-02T19:38:39Z")
Sam and Max is bar none the funniest game. ever. They are making a sequel (yes by Lucasarts). Cross your fingers and braid your hairs! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/14 "2004-03-02T20:22:34Z")
Between LucasArts and Sierria, we saw a **lot** more hits than misses. I especially miss the old parser-based adventure games. Other great ones: –_The Superhero League Of Hoboken_ (I still get a chuckle every time I travel to North Jersey, wondering if “Weehawken” is a euphemism) –_Spellcasting 101_, _201_ and (to a lesser extent) _301_. –A _Xanth_ game with a name that escapes me right now. On the modern side, the talk radio station in _GTA3_ and _GTA:VS_ had me rolling. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/15 "2004-03-02T20:30:32Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Between LucasArts and Sierria, we saw a **lot** more hits than misses. I especially miss the old parser-based adventure games. > > Other great ones: > –_The Superhero League Of Hoboken_ (I still get a chuckle every time I travel to North Jersey, wondering if “Weehawken” is a euphemism) > –_Spellcasting 101_, _201_ and (to a lesser extent) _301_. > –A _Xanth_ game with a name that escapes me right now. > > On the modern side, the talk radio station in _GTA3_ and _GTA:VS_ had me rolling. All good choices that I overlooked. The Xanth game would be _Companions of Xanth_. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/16 "2004-03-02T20:41:05Z")
> [@Vezer](#): > > Sam and Max is bar none the funniest game. ever. > They are making a sequel (yes by Lucasarts). Cross your fingers and braid your hairs! I have high hopes, because Steve Purcell is a freakin’ genius. “What are we going to do with these interlopers, Max?” “Let’s shave them bald and tattoo garish wrestling masks on their faces!” (from the comic, natch) And while it’s not quite in the vein of the OP, I’d like to nominate the instruction manual for Epyx’s old **Crush, Crumble, and Chomp!** Page after page after page of deadpan, dry humor, all to describe how to play a game with a fifty-foot-tall monster rampaging a major metropolitan city. “Arachnis grew up a child of the streets, but could never achieve brilliance on the basketball courts because he could not master the necessary twenty-eight handslaps.” “_Scenario: Goshilla vs. the Smog Monster._ No, there aren’t two monsters in this game – just Goshilla, as far as the eye can see. (That’s the problem; you can’t _see_ Tokyo)” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/17 "2004-03-02T22:05:59Z")
I haven’t played it but I think [Toonstruck](http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,518/) should be on this list. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/18 "2004-03-02T22:14:01Z")
“You mind if I drive?” “Not if you don’t mind me clutching at the dashboard and screaming like a cheerleader.” Nothin’ beats _Sam & Max_. Utterly useless trivia: the voice actor they got to play Sam sounds _exactly_ like my uncle. Who, as it happens, is a dead ringer for Gary Sinise. Which means, obviously, that Gary Sinise was the voice of Sam. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/19 "2004-03-02T22:51:32Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Utterly useless trivia: the voice actor they got to play Sam sounds _exactly_ like my uncle. Who, as it happens, is a dead ringer for Gary Sinise. Which means, obviously, that Gary Sinise was the voice of Sam. Or something. Or [Bill Farmer](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267724/) is your uncle. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/20 "2004-03-03T02:38:54Z")
Holy crap. Someone else has played _Superhero League of Hoboken_? That was a funny game. It’s a swirling tempest of cliches: Superhero cliches, post-apocalyptic cliches, RPG cliches (you get the two most ungodly powerful characters right at the last chapter). Also: Dick Clark _still hasn’t aged_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063.md?page=2)