Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!

Haha, sorry flashman but I think this place still counts as early days of gaming!

Check-mate

Stay a while. Stay forever. (Impossible Mission/C64)

Well, if you want one from phpDiplomacy, I reckon 'Finalise' deserves a mention.

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

> wait

Time passes . . .

Pete wanted it that way. (not a game reference, but still kind of old-school)

@JECE - classy, dude!

King me.

Haha yes, that is true. I was not impressed to see it's now gone! :O

For anyone who used to MOO, then perhaps "@go home" might count, but I would guess I'm the only one with that past sideline?

It's a secret to everybody.

@gjdip - I played more than my share of Infocom text games. You gotta love those stupid commands that basically did nothing in-game!

You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
- Infocom's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (player is lost in their own brain)

Hail to the king baby! (Duke Nukem 3 )

The title sounds like the scene at the beginning of the film Big!

I remember the Dizzy games being a bit like that as well, although still rather good!

It is from Zero Wing (the poorly translated version for Europe - 1991? I think).

"The body of a dead ghost is lying on the floor." - Haunted House on the TRS-80

@Speaker - hilarious! I'd never played that on my old trash 80. Was that from a cassette load? Or a floppy disk?

"TREMBLE MORTALS!

And despair.

DOOM has come to this world."

-Archimonde.

"Only a fool would run an empire without luxuries, King."
- Domestic Advisor, Civilization II.

Anyone play that game? I remember that's damn near the only thing that guy used to say. They had him as an Elvis spoof and he would always as for luxuries.

@Draugnar: It was from a tape. You had to play the game in two halves - the ground floor then the upper floor, loading the second after playing through to the end of the first.

One command you had to use was "Attack the ghost carefully with the sword". Simply attacking the ghost without doing it "carefully" would get you killed.

I played Civ2! You could automatically cheat they had a drop box called CHEATS and I always used auto advance and auto build

Do a barrel roll!

Flood Control Dam #3. God, but I loved the Zorks.

Not gaming, but cartoon, hope that doesn't get me banned.

Knowing is half the battle!

Wololo

If you don't remember wololo. maybe this will help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tBqdKGiqnI :-) Watch thewhole thing.

Or this: http://wololowololo.ytmnd.com/ ?

"Hey! Listen!" (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/N64)

Always hated that darn Navi.

@ Tyler Durden: Amazing. I haven't thought about the luxury guy in Civ II in years. I would never raise luxuries because I thought science was more important and that's all he would say.

:O Age of Empire :D That was awesome! From 2: "It is good to be the king"
I say 'was', I still play AoE2

Ha ha, Conquerors all the way!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wnE4vF9CQ4

Figlesquidge: All hail... king of the losers!

Ha ha, all those Conquerors taunts.

Yeh, that would be quite a lot!
I can't believe no-ones mentioned it, but "Squirtle is evolving"

Wizard needs food...

Spawn more overlords!

Ha ha, all those Conquerors taunts.

Sorry, I refreshed the page. I didn't mean to send that again.

Every time I'm sitting around waiting for one last person to finalize the turn, I have the nearly irresistible urge to say . . .

LOOT THE DOG!!!

@ denis & n00bzorz - I mostly play Civ III now as it's better than Civ II and Civ IV was bloody terrible. I never used luxuries either and still don't in Civ III even though it's easier to.

@ Paper_Markets - I remember going through the list of automated sayings and that one was by far the best. I remember the first time I found it I must have played it five or six times and laughed my head off.

"Multi-Kill" ~ Unreal

In the beginning of the world all living being were ruled by the Elven Court... where the wizard-king Inioch sat upon his throne. He maintained a delicate balance between light and shadow. Attracted to its splendors a new race called Humans sailed to Inioch's Court. In defined hordes they besieged... (...) in the calamaties King Inioch and his Court were slain. Prince Meandor fell among the dead. Inioch's second wife, fled the ruins with her baby, Julia.

The Elves (...) into factions. Some desired to rebuild in tranquility while others, scarred by their loss, demanded the annihilation of anything Human. These Dark Elves cultivated malice, embracing the shadows. In the gloom of their underground hideout they sharpened weapons of war...

But the child Julia grew, tutored in the ways of Light on a remote island. As she matured she joined a society called Keepers, to shine light (...)

Mistaken for dead but (...) of vengeace, Meandor found the Cult of Storms who brought terror to all those who opposed their dark ideals.

After centuries of war a new star appeared above the Valley of Wonders. Keeper scouts found Meandor lurking about the ruins of Inioch's Court. Julia too folowed the omen.

(...)

No one here knows Age of Wonders? :(

Draugnar, I still get frightened when I think of Mr. Crisp in Wishbringer.

Re-live your youth and waste countless more hours at http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/.

Thanks for the URL! Now I'll never get any work done. ;-)

Bummer... No "A Mind Forever Voyaging". I loved that one.

Not to worry, Draugnar:

http://pitumbo.com/download-infocom-games-free-and-play-other-works-interactive-fiction

We'll see you again in six months.