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Title: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Tue 21/04/2009 22:28:58
So this is my entry from the previous BG Blitz, depicting Stan from MI selling a full stock of second hand adventure game characters. I thought it might be fun to post this as an 'identify them all' mini-competition thread. Every featured character comes from an adventure game. I know some of them look pretty generic, and for those I added a gadget or a specific piece of clothing that might ring a bell.

Feels like fun for anybody?
(If it does, use [ hide] tags when replying)

(http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5434/stansusedadvgcbx2no.png)
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: GarageGothic on Tue 21/04/2009 22:38:18
Can't place 7 or 10. The rest I'm pretty sure of:

Spoiler
1. Laverne (DOTT)
2. Bobbin (Loom)
3. Robert Foster (Beneath a Steel Sky)
4. Zanthia (Hand of Fate)
5. The Arrogant Man (Trilby's Notes/6 Days a Sacrifice)
6. Fingus & Winkle (Gobliins 2)
8. Gabriel Knight (GK1)
9. Faye Russel (Flight of the Amazon Queen)
11. Indiana Jones (LC/FOA)
12. Guybrush Threepwood (MI series)
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Edit: Just realized who 3 was after understanding what was on the shirt (first I thought it was a Star Trek sort of emblem, making me think Space Quest 5) - very subtle reference there :)
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Trent R on Wed 22/04/2009 07:07:06
Spoiler
0. Stan
1. Laverne from DOTT
2. Loom PC
3.
4. Kyrandia?
5. The Tall Man
6.
7. Infinity String? Don't think so..
8.
9. FOTAQ chick.
10.
11. Indiana
12. Guybrush
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Fun thread, would love to see some more (especially if you themed it--Lucas Arts, AGS, Sierra, Sci-fi, etc)

~Trent
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Snarky on Wed 22/04/2009 08:24:24
7 could be

Spoiler
the alien skeleton jigsaw puzzle from THE DIG, maybe?
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Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Wed 22/04/2009 10:09:37
Trent, glad you like it =) I'm kinda enjoying this so I might come up with some more, though theming would make it easier to figure out.. then again, I could be more in-depth then. I'll think about it. And all you got were correct save no.7.

GarageGothic, nice job, all that you got were correct.

Snarky, interesting idea but that's not that.

And forgot to mention, four of them were not playable characters, just remarkable NPC. And that includes the 7 and 10 nobody got yet. I admit they're both tricky ones =)
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: arj0n on Wed 22/04/2009 13:40:39
7 sort of looks like a scorpion skeleton...
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Laukku on Wed 22/04/2009 17:47:59
7 looks like Arj0n said, but I'd like to add that it seems to have a female head with black hair and lying on its back.
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Wed 22/04/2009 18:06:47
It does have a female head and it is lying on its back. And it is a scorpion-like thing. Yet, remember that in this picture the creature is simply stocked in Stan's jungle shop. In the actual game it wasn't quite as dead as it looks now...  :=
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Akril15 on Thu 23/04/2009 11:09:10
Is number 7...

Spoiler
The temptress from Lure of the Temptress, as she appears in the very last scene of the game?
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Great idea, by the way.
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Thu 23/04/2009 11:44:52
Akril15, thank you, glad you like it. And congratulations =)

This leaves us with only one character unguessed, no. 10.
Hint:
Spoiler
She was one of the two main female NPC in the third (I think) part of a well known adventure game series.
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Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Radiant on Thu 23/04/2009 13:34:22
Spoiler

1. Laverne from DOTT
2. Bobbin Threadbare from LOOM
3. Looks like a Roger Wilco starcon uniform
4. Zanthia from Kyrandia II
5. Reaper dude from Grim Fandango
6. no clue
7. Plenty of games feature scorpions, e.g. QFG2
8. a guy with a mirror... could be Gwydion from KQ3
9. no clue
10. Deanna Troi from any star trek game
11. Indy
12. Guybrush Threepwood
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Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Akatosh on Thu 23/04/2009 18:36:23
I'd say 10 is

Spoiler

the girl from Disc Noir
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but I'm neither sure nor able to remember her name.  :-\
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Takyon on Thu 23/04/2009 21:12:05
Carlotta?
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Hudders on Thu 23/04/2009 21:28:54
Agh. Yeah, you're right. (http://onlyagame.typepad.com/ihobo/images/office.jpg)
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Sat 25/04/2009 12:22:32
Radiant, you got
Spoiler
1,2,4,11,12 correct.
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Okay guys, you solved the last one. That's Carlotta indeed.
This was fun to me too, so I might come up with the next round =)
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: GarageGothic on Sat 25/04/2009 22:34:34
Wow, the human characters in Discworld Noir really made zero impression - not even seeing the screenshot I can remember that dame. Thanks for a great game, Kastchey - that was a lot of fun. Hoping to see another round soon!
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Trent R on Sun 26/04/2009 01:56:24
Woo hoo, nicely done 'Tosh!

Can't wait for another one Kastchey, if you end up doing one.


~Trent
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: NsMn on Sun 26/04/2009 18:45:51
Hm, I'm not sure, but maybe 9 is
Spoiler
Dr. Schneider from LC?
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Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Sun 26/04/2009 19:47:23
Spoiler
No, it's not... her mirror is a hint.
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Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Dualnames on Tue 28/04/2009 21:25:59
Spoiler

Spoiler below, select the area to read the text
1. Laverne
2. Bobbin (Loom)
3.
4.
5. Chzo or whatever he;s called
6. Goblins
7.
8.
9.
10.
11. Indiana Jones
12. Guybrush Threepwood
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I suck..Does Stan count?
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Wed 29/04/2009 22:27:15
I guess, though the sign on the left provides some hint  :=
And you got them correct.
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Dualnames on Thu 30/04/2009 13:39:05
Quote from: Kastchey on Wed 29/04/2009 22:27:15
I guess, though the sign on the left provides some hint  :=
And you got them correct.

It does, we just didn't play the same adventure games. My used characters would be way different. A discnoir character would be good for example.
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Thu 30/04/2009 16:43:01
Then who do you think number 10 is?  :)

Edit: And I meant that the 'Stan's Used...' sign works as a sort of a spoiler for identifying Stan.
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: NsMn on Fri 01/05/2009 11:14:59
btw, shouldn't it be "Stan's previously owned" instead of "Stan's used" ?  ;)
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Hudders on Fri 01/05/2009 11:27:34
Quote from: NsMn on Fri 01/05/2009 11:14:59
btw, shouldn't it be "Stan's previously owned" instead of "Stan's used" ?  ;)

Why?  ???
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Leon on Fri 01/05/2009 12:03:48
Because in MI2 he had Stan's Previously-Owned Vessels, Stan's Previously-Owned Coffins and also owned Stan's Previously-owned Restaurant Supplies. But

Quote from: NsMn on Fri 01/05/2009 11:14:59
btw, shouldn't it be "Stan's previously owned" instead of "Stan's used" ?  ;)

that would give it away too much... :)  The Stan's Previously-Owned Vessels was also known as Used Ship Emporium.
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: NsMn on Fri 01/05/2009 14:08:20
Okay, that's true enough   :)
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Kastchey on Fri 01/05/2009 16:15:46
Perhaps, but this image was an entry for a competition titled 'Stan's Used... ?', hence this sign.
Title: Re: Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?
Post by: Dualnames on Fri 01/05/2009 20:55:00
I'd kill myself if I couldn't identify Stan alright.  ;D