Warning! Incoming Game

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: ReBoot: Command.com: The Kitchen Sink: Warning! Incoming Game

This sub-section is regarding the myriad of games that have descended onto Mainframe. Accordingly, I see no reason why the games included in such episodes as "Icons," "Where No Sprite Has Gone Before," and "Number 7" could not also be part of the discussion, despite the fact of course that these games occurred in other systems. In conclusion, please feel free to exchange lists and opinions of the games. And please refrain from any profane material, or else, in the words of "Weird Al" Yankovic, "I'm going to have to get Medieval on your heiney." (:
By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Sunday, May 30, 1999 - 8:49 pm:

I am unaware of many Mortal Kombat type games designed for the PC, as was introduced during the episode "Game Over." Furthermore, I do not know such games to have what is apparently the ultimate opponent to be selectable and have the fighter combat three other opponents prior to the conclusion of the game, unless of course it is in endurance or tournament mode. When all is forgotten, though, I rather enjoyed the episode "Game Over" and thoroughly appreciated the well-anticipated Mortal Kombat spoof.


By Matt Nelson on Monday, May 31, 1999 - 11:45 am:

Well, there are lots of MK games for the PC, and keep in mind that perhaps the user has cheat codes to let him skip levels...

M@


By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Tuesday, June 22, 1999 - 5:50 pm:

How exactly does leaving with a game transpose one (or as it stands, three) to another system? I fathom the game was removed from the CD-ROM drive and consigned to the user's colleague who in turn loaded the game into his own computer's system. This perpetuated until Enzo Matrix, AndrAIa, and Frisket arrived at a system connected to the web. Furthermore, presuming my theory is correct, Enzo Matrix would have had to conquer the Mortal Kombat spoof's user when the game was played on the user's colleague's computer's system to release AndrAIa, Frisket, and himself from the game, thus implying Enzo Matrix was better prepared and resultfully successful the second go around. Obviously, this is contrary to a later duel between Enzo Matrix and residual RAM space of the user from the Mortal Kombat spoof, considering Enzo Matrix declares, "Not this time." Also worth mentioning is the amount of systems the trio has visited. My estimate is a little over twelve. And of all nuances pertaining to the series I do wish they could be more meticulous regarding individual games' time discrepancies when compared to that of the inhabited system's time. It sounds to me as if the games have the same effect as experienced by Capt. Jean-Luc Picard during the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode in which he was mentally existing within that probe's chimerical (def.: imaginary) realm for an entire lifetime and had conclusively discovered how he was unconscious for only fifteen minutes. Although, Enzo Matrix, AndrAIa, and Frisket bear what the senescence process has done to them by the time they return to Mainframe. Well, not so much Frisket, more so because he ought to have died along the way from the short life span of canines, but definitely Enzo Matrix and AndrAIa.


By Joel Croteau on Wednesday, June 23, 1999 - 12:09 am:

Funny, one would think games would be time expanded. After all, games take more than a couple of microseconds to play!


By Ash on Friday, August 06, 1999 - 7:20 am:

Personally, my favourite is the game in "Mend & Defend" (ie, the spoof of "Evil Dead 2" in a Doom style engine. That was really slick.


By Peter Stoller on Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 10:00 pm:

The Mad Max game. Because the user was cool enough to play it.


By Peter Stoller on Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 10:06 pm:

Most of the games put the user in the role of "bad guy" while the mainframers play the "good guy", especially games like Starship Alcatraz (The Tiff) and Wild West (High Code). The notable exception is Malicious Corpses (To Mend And Defend).


By Merat on Saturday, June 08, 2002 - 11:45 pm:

Malicious Corpses... good pun on Evil Dead :)


By Merat on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 11:47 am:

Ok, I know that this is about four years after the post but....

I always thought that the games were downloaded from the internet and when one system was done with it, it would move onto the next downloader.


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