# The video game ending thread- spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254 "2001-09-01T04:23:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/1 "2001-09-01T04:23:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/2 "2001-09-01T05:31:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/3 "2001-09-01T06:22:18Z")
Girlfriend croaks- Ninja Gaiden…3, I believe. That was a long time ago, though. Villain is actually an alien- Mega Man 2. (Although you learn later that it was actually just another robot Wily made) Silence- …? Fireworks- Super Mario, of course. (Even if it isn’t, it still works) Opera lights go down and everyone’s infected- Parasite Eve. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/4 "2001-09-01T14:36:28Z")
Fireworks ended the first Monkey Island game, so that’s my guess. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/5 "2001-09-01T15:09:22Z")
It seems strangely appropriate that **Chocobo** would know the endings to many console-based games. Bring the PC-ending-spoilers on, I say! Bring them on! Well, after I’ve found some breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/6 "2001-09-01T17:47:59Z")
i’m not so sure that chocobo got the first one right; it looked like that was the ending of just ONE game… probably an obscure one at that. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/7 "2001-09-03T04:15:12Z")
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.” HUGS! Sqrl PS. I love evil spoiler threads. Mwuhahahaha ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/8 "2001-09-03T04:40:09Z")
I like the very idea of this thread. I’ll throw some more into the general pot. One game per line, starting now: The savior in exile. Mortality regained. Eternal discovery waits. Spike! For you! In your head! He finally smiles. Splinters of time will never mend. A new god rises. Anarchy’s promise. Life’s good at the top. The book is shelved nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/9 "2001-09-03T05:00:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > \*\* > Splinters of time will never mend. > \*\* Is this Chrono Trigger? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/10 "2001-09-03T06:09:47Z")
\<\\> Either “Diablo”, or “Volleyball Kombat” 😉 Here’s another addition to the potluck: “The head (The second one) is tossed into the devoid, but the Legion had to be sacrificed.” Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![DarkPrince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DarkPrince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkPrince)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/11 "2001-09-03T06:30:56Z")
Drastic: > [@](#): > > Mortality regained Is this from Planescape: Torment? ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/12 "2001-09-03T07:05:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/13 "2001-09-03T17:31:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > 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. 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. I’m going to go cry now. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/14 "2001-09-03T17:34:37Z")
> [@](#): > > **The savior in exile.** Fallout? ---
**Author:** ![LifeWillFall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@LifeWillFall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeWillFall)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/15 "2001-09-03T18:05:47Z")
my guess is spy hunter… Ohh wait that game didn’t end did it Bah, I was always bad at these threads _walks away in silence_ ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/16 "2001-09-03T18:26:32Z")
How do you get to the cow level in diablo 2? > [@](#): > > The girlfriend croaks. The villain turns into an Alien who you have to beat. And the rest is essentially silence. Sounds like FF7. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/17 "2001-09-03T19:04:46Z")
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”](http://adamcadre.ac/games.html), 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Meleemancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Meleemancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meleemancer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/18 "2001-09-08T13:48:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andygirl \* > \*\*Cut to the opera house- when the lights dim, it turns out that everyone is infected. \*\* Parasite Eve. How about these. Sorted in order of obscurity, most well-known first: Another star brings a new hope for 40,000. A candid home video is made. The new ruler kills his wife. The new ruler kills his best friend. Your photo album is shown. ---
**Author:** ![darian00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@darian00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darian00)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/19 "2001-09-08T14:03:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mind gamer \* > Another star brings a new hope for 40,000. > \*\* Space Quest I? ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254/20 "2001-09-08T14:29:12Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-video-game-ending-thread-spoilers/79254.md?page=2)