Top Ten Funniest

[garote]

my top ten list of
accidental funny moments
in gaming

(This list is meant to exclude moments where a game was trying to be funny.)

In no particular order, they are:

1. The original Civilization: Watching civil unrest - a bunch of animated hippies jerking across the screen - underneath the headline: "Civil Disorder in Dorkoleum! Mayer flees in panic." Laughed until I fell over.
   
2. Nethack: Accidentally defiling the altar of my own deity, Huan Ti, who then hurled a lightning bolt at me, which missed, bounced off a couple of walls, and then electrocuted his own high priestess.
   
3. Ultima 8: Turning on the cheat menu, then sprinting through town and dragging gigantic chunks of the world around randomly, like some deranged telekinetic. The guards were absolutely furious, but whenever one got close, I would pick him up and drop him into the lake - *blorp!!* - and he would never be seen again. Revenge was sweet.
   
4. Doom 1: Playing with my friend Brent over dialup modem: Watching as he ran his character down a hallway, then up some stairs towards a door... And then tried to press the "open door" key but accidentally hit "fire" instead. He unloaded a bazooka round right up against the door, blowing his disintegrating carcass back across the hallway. "Harrrrrggh!", went his character, and the charred remains slid to a halt near my feet. Over the chat console, he dryly exclaimed: "WHOOPS." I laughed for so long Brent thought I'd dropped carrier.
   
5. Shadow Warrior: Again, playing with Brent, we came to the "rabbit farming" level. We bred several dozen rabbits, then Brent went FUBAR and blew up the entire building. The pyrotechnic display, combined with breaking glass and flying bunny parts, was easily the most cathartic of his many in-game temper tantrums.
   
6. Starcraft: Playing a big LAN game in the UCSC labs with a modded install, and hearing the Terran Ghost's "target aquired" sound effect ("Nuclear launch detected!"), which we'd replaced with a sample of my friend Kurt. He was playing on the opposite team and I was stalking the terrain when I heard Kurt's voice blare out "NUCLEAR LUNCH SERVED" ... "NUCLEAR LUNCH SERVED" ... "NUCLEAR LUNCH SERVED". ... I couldn't stop myself from laughing as three nuclear missiles rained down on my base, one after the other, nearly ejecting me from the game.
   
7. Karateka: My friend Matt (different Matt) and I made the character bow to each adversary, then fight, then back off, then try to bow again, then fight again, et cetera. Inevitably he would get kicked in the groin and die. What made it hilarious is that we'd take turns doing "voice over" for the character, leading up to the fatal groin-kick, choosing voices like, for example, Miss Manners, Crocodile Dundee, or Mr. T. "Now shuddup and lissen, fools. Before you fight anyone you gotta show res --OW MY PRIVATES. NUUURSE!!"
   
8. Grand Theft Auto III: The culmination of an afternoon playing the GTA3 Challenge, with Alex. The Challenge is this: Using ONLY the items you steal from the cops, cause enough destruction to summon the national guard, and then steal a tank. It's quite hard, but absolutely hilarious to attempt. The cop shooting at me got run over by another cop arriving at the scene, who then drove into a wall. Then as he was getting out of his car, a third cop plowed into him and his car exploded, setting my stolen ambulance on fire. I remember laughing so hard I couldn't see what I was doing.
   
9. Doom 2: Playing over dialup with Matt Heck, on cooperative play, next to a respawn point. We were outside a closed door, debating the best way to deal with the horde of monsters in the room beyond. "LEAVE THIS TO ME" he says, over the chat console, then opens up the door and zips inside. The door closes immediately and I hear his shotgun: BOOM, BOOM. Then the monsters: HRAAAAIGH! RARR! Then sheer pandemonium: BANG BANG, SCRAATCH, GRAAAH, AIIYYEEE! ... and BRZAP - a new Matt Heck appears out of the respawn point. Before I can even respond, he opens the door again, and in he goes. This time he's only got a pistol: POP, POP! Monsters: RAARARGGGGH. GRAAA, POP POP POP, HOORRGH, BOOOOM, AIIYYEEE ... BRZAP. He repeats this performance four or five times in 30 seconds, finally resorting to fisticuffs on the other side of the door, and I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe.
   
10. Gauntlet II: Getting into a "tag fight" with my fellow players and a room full of 'Death' units, while we were all close to dying. "AAAAAA GET HIM OFF ME, GET HIM OFF ME" ... though I don't think this counts, because that sort of thing is probably what the "play tag" feature is for. Hrmm.
    

Any funniest moments to share?

Comments

[penguin-boy.livejournal.com]

My friend Harry rented Hexen64 when it first came out, so I went over his house to play. His friend Thurston was there (and now me and Thurston are like, really close, but at the time it was my first time meeting him). So we're playing, and we quickly realize there's no way to turn off friendly fire. So we're just running around killing each other repeatedly. Then we found out that if you go into one of the portals, everyone gets teleported with you. So for the next few hours, we just ran around, killing each other and randomly teleporting, while Harry was trying to actually play. It took us about an hour to get that first item in the fire place. Eventually, I would just hit the light switch, and Thurston would punch Harry in the face and then Harry would run and turn the lights on and be like WHO PUNCHED ME? >:[ and we'd both be laughing.


Oh also, more recently. I got really drunk one night and my roommate was playing Marvel vs SNK2, so I was like LET ME PLAY AGAINST YOU! Now I don't really remember this, but apparently I beat my roommates Will, Jared, and Raj a total of 15 times. I was laying on my back and stomach, and I recall not being able to see the screen for a while. It was really funny the next morning when Will was telling me HOW DID YOU PLAY SO WELL LAST NIGHT? and I was like ....play what?

[conflictdswitch.livejournal.com]

I think Starcraft should get it's own top ten since we did it for *so long.*

My most memorable "funny" moment from that was when I sent a fleet of Battlecruisers and a Science Vessel to attack your (or someone on your team) base. Due to a series of panicked clicks, I ended up Yamato gunning my Science Vessel, right before a fleet of some kind marched over and ate my Battlecruisers.

[headless-chickn.livejournal.com]

In Karateka when you get to the final room to save the princess, if you go into "combat stance" instead of "run mode" she kicks you in the groin and you die as well.

[headless-chickn.livejournal.com]

Dunno if you ever played Age of Empires. It's a RTS series from M$. In the first game of the series there's no way to retire / disband your worker units once there's nothing left to build. You also can't attack your own units. But you *can* congregate all your peasants in one space out in the wilderness and attack that piece of ground with your catapult units.

[headless-chickn.livejournal.com]

Lemmings 1!

One of the very first levels you're in a cave and the lemmings fall from the roof and the first thing they land on is kind of a stalagmite / stone pillar type thingie... Wait for the first lemming to walk to the edge of the pillar and turn him into a stopper. Wait for the second lemming to bounce off of lemming 1 and walk to the other end of the pillar, then turn him into a stopper. Crank up the drop speed to max, filling the small ammt of space btwn the 2 stoppers with 50 or so lemmings. Hit the 'self-destruct-all' button.

The exploding lemmings will blow the column clear off the map, and bore a hole thru the floor of the cave. (With proper chemical assistance) this provided me & the other geeks in the East Tower dorm bldg of Ithaca College with countless hours of uproarious laughter.

[graue.livejournal.com]

Speaking of funny moments, when's the lossless BDM going up?

[shutupassbutt.livejournal.com]

Tecmo Baseball (NES): I used to play this game a lot with my buddies back in my elementary school days. The game is laughably bad, which is probably part of why we loved it. Among the most memorable moments are me bunting several home runs in one inning, beaming all of the batters just to see the single sprite animation for HIT BY PITCH, and my outfield shenanigans.

All of the fielders move as one entity with the directional pad, so I would pile them all up in a corner and then have one of the basemen throw the ball into the gaggle of fielders. When you try to throw the ball out of the pile of dudes, it just keeps shifting ownership between them, so you end up with this PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW sound as the ball jumps around.

Also, A is always the go faster button (http://shutupassbutt.livejournal.com/30111.html).

[garote]

That is awesome. The La gets the same way when she plays Puzzle Fighter while very tired. She doesn't even have to be looking at the screen half the time. Once she beat me while she was on the floor, upside down, with just one hand on the controller, while talking to Alison.

[garote]

Oh man, I think I remember watching that happen. I laughed myself silly over that. Up comes the fleet, and you're all, "EMP! EMP bomb! GO!", and suddenly all ten cruisers whip around and go BBRRZZAAAIIIWWWWNNNGG, and completely exterminate the science vessel. Then you're all, "SHIT!!!!", and the carriers go "fwaaaa! fwaaa!!" and your fleet is running, running, shrinking, running, shrinking... gone. That was sheer comedy.

[garote]

Doesn't count -- the programmers intended it. :D

[conflictdswitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, btw, have you seen the previews for Starcraft II? It reminds me of a severely on-crack version of rock-paper-scissors.

Just remembered

[conflictdswitch.livejournal.com]

About two years ago, B., a friend of mine, introduced me to Delta Force 2. The M4 with underslung grenade launcher quickly became my favorite weapon. I became insanely accurate with the grenade launcher and was soon taking down enemy helicopters with a well placed grenade. The funny part was, everytime I started shooting at something with the launcher, B. would say "Dude, you can't possibly hit that with the launcher. Switch to the LAW or something." Eventually I would hit whatever I was aiming at, proving that it *can* be done. As I got better, his quote got shorter until it became: "Dude, you can't poss-[BOOM!]... I guess you *can* hit that." Looking back, we should have made it a drinking game.