Running Jokes in Video Gaming

**FuryFox** · 06 Aug 2003, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Zerodash

The traditional "funny talk" in the Warcraft/Starcraft games...

Oh yeah, totally forgot about those. Definitely at the top of the list...I opened up the world-editor and listened to them all on time...I'm a big fan of awful puns, so it was great.

**Dolemite** · 06 Aug 2003, 07:42 PM

Commander Keen in Doom 2.

**SearchManX** · 06 Aug 2003, 07:46 PM

The way that Paper Mario acknowledges Luigi never having any of the action that Mario gets.

**Mr-K** · 06 Aug 2003, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by Tain

Daikatana.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

**Agent X** · 06 Aug 2003, 08:30 PM

Maniac Mansion from Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts) had a chainsaw somewhere in the game, but you couldn't actually use it. If you tried to use it, the character would simply say, "It's out of gas. Look for gas in a future Lucasfilm game."

When Lucasfilm Games released Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders a year or two later, there was a can of gasoline somewhere in the game. If you attempted to use it, the character would say, "It's for a different game."

**TobalRox** · 07 Aug 2003, 12:04 AM

Maybe not a running joke, but I liked the part in the original Secret of Monkey Island where it asked for you to insert disk #x and it kept going for a while until it finally loads the rest of the game

**Mzo** · 07 Aug 2003, 12:36 AM

That's if you try to go into the stump, and it tells you to pop in all these odd disks, so Guybrush just says fuck it.

I like the way they made fun of Sierra's death scenes.

**Omni** · 07 Aug 2003, 12:42 AM

If you carry a pair of pantaloons all the way over from BG1 to BG2, some girl like, does something.

Damn, it'd probably be better if I knew what I was talking about.