# Things that were never said before the invention of video" games (possible SPOILERS) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070 "2003-12-26T00:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nameless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/779978/32.png) [@nameless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nameless)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/21 "2003-12-26T16:48:16Z")
[obscure reference] FROGBLAST THE VENT CORE! [/obscure reference] “Yo, dude, pistol-whip me.” --A reference to Co-op Halo, where pistol whipping your buddy respawns him with full health. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/22 "2003-12-26T18:46:11Z")
-“Be sure to eat the dungeon meat!” -“The boss was really cool” ---
**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:** [December 26, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/23 "2003-12-26T19:50:05Z")
“Wizard needs food…badly” often said to my friend when I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/24 "2003-12-26T20:19:16Z")
All your base… ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/25 "2003-12-26T20:38:20Z")
Just heard from my daughter, currently fighting Orcs in Balin’s Tomb: “ **Why won’t you people just DIE?!** ” and “ **Is the Troll here yet?** ” She’s not quite eleven. Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/26 "2003-12-26T20:42:18Z")
One more turn and I’m going to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/27 "2003-12-26T20:51:39Z")
hmmm if I slit this guys throat I could steal his outfit but I can’t find a good place to drag the body. when I let the childern out of jail the little bastards attacked me. Was I supposed to kill them??? Ahh finally managed to burn that damn elven town to the ground. they turned the dogs into rats in the nintendo version. What’s up with that? Nothing like a full day of killing zombies. God I loathe the undead. hey that guy ran away from my grenade. That’s pretty smart. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/28 "2003-12-26T21:02:01Z")
“Wow. Ryan Leaf sure had a good game” -\* Any football video game\* ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/29 "2003-12-26T21:30:40Z")
“Hang on, I’ll just save my game and jump down this cliff” “Oh, I’m dead again” ‘Build order’ “Duke Nuke Em Forever - Ahahaha! _sigh_” ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/30 "2003-12-26T21:32:51Z")
If I control the United Nations I can go to war and then force everyone to make peace with me, and do it again next year. I killed Baal 10 times last night, but the other people grabbed all the loot. The sun doesn’t like me, it keeps diving at my head. Hey check it out, I can Suplex the train! I used my bike pump on that dragon and it exploded. This sucks, I can fall from 200 feet and not get hurt, but I can’t climb out of a 6 foot hole in the ground that I drilled with my laser. I have to rescue people by hitching them on the underside of my spaceship while I fight aliens. If I eat this red flower I can throw fireballs. Hey Gau, go jump on that dude’s head so you can learn his abilities. I have to find a jumping power-up for my forklift so I can jump up on top of that gas station and get a better engine. Crap, I fell through the floor into infinity again. I wanna marry Violet and have kids, so they can get killed wandering through the forest and then I can go into a rage and slaughter the Red Dragon. I have to practice turning into a ball and laying bombs so I can blast myself up to that ledge. No, I’m not going to rush you all the way through just for a ruby. I don’t care how perfect it is, leave me alone. Does anyone have that Wirt kid’s peg leg so we can beat up on the cows? My phalanx killed a fleet of battleships! That was awesome! No matter how many nukes I drop on that city, it just won’t die. I heard if you go to that one waterfall and throw some rocks in, a big fish comes out and yells at you, but it gives you something cool. But if you bother it again it spits a fireball at you. Picking up coins from the wishing well is bad for your karma. I used to be a successful scientist, but I drank some weird chemicals and became a crime lord instead. I fell off the side of a cliff so I had a time penalty when I finished the race. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/31 "2003-12-26T22:05:21Z")
I ate Pikachu and now I can shoot lightning! Yay! (Super Smash Bros.) “Hey, you ate me and crapped me out!” (After being eaten by Yoshi in Super Smash Bros.) “Yay, I got a free man!” - I don’t know if everyone says this, but around where I live, we’ve always called 1-ups “free men”. Imagine actually GETTING a free man in real life. Some random man just follows you around and does stuff and you don’t have to pay him. Then again, that would probably get annoying, and it would be more like “Crap, I got a darn free man and now he’s going to follow me around and tie my shoelaces too tight.” ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/32 "2003-12-26T22:06:17Z")
Power-up Easter Egg. secret level. cheat code. (I know not very funny it just occured to me that these are common knowelege now) ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/33 "2003-12-26T22:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avalonian \* > \*\*(My daughters received a Gamecube for Christmas, and guess who helped them play “The Two Towers”? Yep, that’s me. _grin_) \*\* Ooh, fun! The one time I played that game I was informed that under no circumstances would I be allowed to lead the Free Peoples. (I wasn’t very good at it. ;)) Which reminds me: “Well, we were supposed to be studying, but we decided it would be more fun to kill Ringwraiths. It’s extremely therapeutic!” ---
**Author:** ![nameless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/779978/32.png) [@nameless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nameless)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/34 "2003-12-26T22:44:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sturmhauke \* > **Picking up coins from the wishing well is bad for your karma.** It’s _The Goonies_ by proxy of _Fallout!_ WOOHOO! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_the\_CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_the\_CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_the_CC)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/35 "2003-12-26T22:46:31Z")
In this world we have video games and stupid people. If only one existed and not the other we’d never have been given “I pwn j00” ---
**Author:** ![VladAntlerkov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c68b51/32.png) [@VladAntlerkov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VladAntlerkov)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/36 "2003-12-26T22:49:15Z")
“Okay, launch the nukes… wait, wait, not THAT direction… land them back in the silo and hope no one notices” ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/37 "2003-12-26T23:47:42Z")
did you see me take out that truck, 2 pickups and a mini? $367976 damage wooo hooooo! ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/38 "2003-12-27T00:50:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nameless \* > \*\*[obscure reference] FROGBLAST THE VENT CORE! [/obscure reference] _Blam! Dink! Your mom!_ “[many expletives]!!! My sniping’s totally gone down the tubes today…” “Make blue sparks faster dammit!” “Dude, that last guy had so much loot.” Or 13w7, rather. “Get the mushrooms, they make you grow big.” “I’m a fuckin’ monster with grenades.” (courtesy of my roommate) ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/39 "2003-12-27T00:51:51Z")
You have six stars?! Respray your car NOW, before the tanks get you! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070/40 "2003-12-27T00:52:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\*“Great, Gandhi is launching nukes at me again. Damn bloodthirsty tyrant.” \*\* Actually, if you are talking about what I think you are talking about, then I seem to remember Ghandi being obsessed with propaganda campaigns. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-were-never-said-before-the-invention-of-video-games-possible-spoilers/221070.md?page=3)