I’m a horrible gamer. I admit it. To compensate, my style of gaming is to play with my brother- I sit on the couch and read comic books while he plays a game. I follow the storyline and solve the puzzles for him. Alternately, I read to him from the cheat sheet.
Hey, it’s a contribution.
Anyway, endings to games that I have participated in. Any guesses?
The girlfriend croaks. The villain turns into an Alien who you have to beat. And the rest is essentially silence.
Fireworks!
Cut to the opera house- when the lights dim, it turns out that everyone is infected.
Hey, you sound like my sister! Oftimes, I’ll just say “You can play if you figure out this dang puzzle for me.” Once or twice, she’s actually done it. I think this is why I like Mega Man so much. =p
And your fireworks ending reminds me of my mother standing in front of me asking if I’d see fireworks if I beat the game repeatedly.
In Metroid (NES) Samus Aran (sp?) is really a girl. Just the opposite, to quote the simpson’s own Mayor Quimby, “The chick in the Crying Game is really a man.”
DarkPrince: yup. I loved that the endgame could be tackled in a couple different approaches.
Ranchoth: likewise, a yes. Er, to the first at least. And I think a Volleyball Kombat secret level off of Hell would have been a great addition to the game–the Doom Knights could have batted Fallens around. Alas.
Totoro: Nope, at least not intentionally–never played that one. It’s from a text adventure (folks usually call it “interactive fiction” these days), and a rather recent one at that. One other item in my potluck additions also comes from the IF genre.
For the other ending-crypticisms, the only thing I can think of is for “fireworks!”–and that’s the ending stage in the lightgun game “Point Blank”, where how many targets on the castle you zap determines the length of the fireworks display.
And to think, I hang around r*if, lurk on IFmud, have played and judged annual comp entries for the past four years, and I don’t recognize the splinters of time or any of the other endings.
pcubed: righto. I always wanted the ending to be extended, the Wanderer raising an army from all the towns he’s saved along the journey, coming back and taking over the vault.
And I’ve made lno cry, which is always when things go too far. The splinters of time thing referred to Adam Cadre’s “Shrapnel”, which for sheer visceral impact, in my opinion, very much outdid the more-lauded “Photopia.”
The other IF ending was “eternal discovery waits”, referring to the classic Infocom title “A Mind Forever Voyaging.”
But the rest will remain unrevealed for now, until more eyes get put out.
Couldn’t be Space Quest I; although you used the Star Generator to make the Sariens go kablooie, I don’t recall any hint whatsoever that it either made a new star or helped 40,000 people.
There’s a candid home video in one of the possible endings to The 11th Hour, I think.
