# Stuff from video games that never gets old... **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 18, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878 "2010-05-18T13:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/1 "2010-05-18T13:41:51Z")
1. Becoming giant Mario and crushing everything in your path. 2. Hacking a health station and watching a Splicer poison himself. 3. Smacking a groaner/wormhead in mid-leap with the hammer. 4. Listening to Sinistar rant. 5. Stapling a Combine to the wall with the crossbow. 6. Basking in Auron’s coolness. 7. The BFG. 8. Fatality! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/2 "2010-05-18T14:00:27Z")
Popping a zombie head like a zit with a nice head shot ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/3 "2010-05-18T14:04:15Z")
Knocking the sun out of the sky with a Koopa shell in the Quicksand level in World 2 of Super Mario 3. 'Cause, you know, YOU CAN KILL THE SUN! EDIT: Oh, and world 5-3 from the same game. Stomping everyone with the Goomba Shoe. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/4 "2010-05-18T14:30:41Z")
The feeling when you solve a very difficult puzzle in an adventure game without consulting a guide or hint book. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/5 "2010-05-18T15:47:14Z")
Taking someone’s head off and pinning it to the wall with a single shot from the Predator’s spear gun. Dropping on some poor unsuspecting bastard from above as an Alien. Going to town with the pulse rifle, the sound of the gun, aliens screaming… Damn I miss that game. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/6 "2010-05-18T15:53:27Z")
A lot of these, but headshots. Definitely headshots. Especially with a shotgun. BOOM! ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/7 "2010-05-18T16:53:15Z")
Blowing up cars in the Call of Duty series by sticking them with Semtex or rolling a grenade under them. Collateral damage caused thereby is, well, collateral. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/8 "2010-05-18T16:54:20Z")
Mowing down pedestrians in Centr… er, I mean Middle Park in a freshly stolen car. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/9 "2010-05-18T17:04:06Z")
Setting splicers on fire. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/10 "2010-05-18T17:33:50Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Setting splicers on fire. 😃 And then electrocuting them when they try to find water to put themselves out with. Killing splicers with nothing but Insect Swarm and the Invisibility Plasmid. It takes a while, but it’s funny. (Actually, any death involving use of the Invisibility Plasmid is amusing. Except when they actually bump into you and make you visible.) Throwing six proximity mines onto an exploding barrel/tank and then Telekinesing it into a Big Daddy for a one-shot kill even against Elite Rosies on Hardcore. (The above is all from the first game. Haven’t played the second.) Shooting mechs in the legs in Mass Effect 2 so they fly off and watching them crawl toward you very slowly as if they could actually still do something useful. Crotch shots in the first two fallouts. Throwing combine soldiers around like ragdolls in the final level of Half Life 2 ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/11 "2010-05-18T17:43:07Z")
Beating up hookers in Grand Theft Auto. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/12 "2010-05-18T17:43:31Z")
Getting killed by a player who knows where all the armor is and thus just takes your hits until you die in the original Halo – but not before you throw a grenade at him and thus blow him up right after you die. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/13 "2010-05-18T17:48:35Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Beating up hookers in Grand Theft Auto. You don’t have to be playing a video game to enjoy this particular activity you know. A lot of the others do at least require you be playing a video game. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/14 "2010-05-18T17:50:26Z")
The chicken gun in “Heretic”. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/15 "2010-05-18T18:21:53Z")
Putting a whole row of trap spears/arrows along the length of a corridor, then plinking a Bouncer or Brute Splicer with a single shot from the revolver or rivet gun. The face skid makes it all worthwhile. Likewise, putting a cluster of 24 trap rivets right where you know the Big Sister is going to appear. Some proximity mines and nearby mini-turrets make for added hilarity. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/16 "2010-05-18T18:30:05Z")
Some more: Running over the whole line of Hare Krishnas in GTA 1. “Gouranga!” C4ing tanks & APCs in BF2. That sound hunters make when you kill them in L4D. Reducing 30’ tall mutant behemoths to small puddles of glowing goo with your plasma rifle. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/17 "2010-05-18T18:34:24Z")
One-shotting beasts that used to kill you over and over when you were a lower level. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/18 "2010-05-18T18:38:46Z")
Taking out anything with a stealth technician in the original Command and Conquer. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/19 "2010-05-18T18:43:13Z")
Lulu’s lulus. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878/20 "2010-05-18T18:56:12Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > 1. Becoming giant Mario and crushing everything in your path. > 2. Hacking a health station and watching a Splicer poison himself. > 3. Smacking a groaner/wormhead in mid-leap with the hammer. > 4. Listening to Sinistar rant. > 5. Stapling a Combine to the wall with the crossbow. > 6. Basking in Auron’s coolness. > 7. The BFG. > 8. Fatality! Wow is Sinistar still around? I haven’t seen that game in ages. I loved it. It was practically orgasmic to to whomp that big face to pieces. Beware, I live! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-from-video-games-that-never-gets-old/539878.md?page=2)