I thought I'd pretend to be starting a thread on places we've seen adventure game references, so that I could mention this one.
In the latest Strongbad email (homestarrunner.com), SB has a disk labelled "Sam and Max" next to his lappy. Yay!
Wait....
....he does! Strongbad be praised!
Then again, could you expect anything less from the creators of "Peasant's Quest?"
You know, since you mentioned people including adventure game references, I thought I'd mention something sad... I have been running a little workshop for teenagers who want to write, and I have been editing one boy's fantasy story for the past couple weeks. I told him I was going to have to take the week off because I've been sick and because "I've entered a competition where I have one week to make an adventure game, like King's Quest."
His response?
"What's an adventure game?"
Sad for him, or for you (us)?
Yeah, the poor kid :/
I was being serious before though ^_^ Anyone who knows other movies/whatnot where adventure game references have popped up, please let us know! I find it very interesting.
A sort of half-reference from the BBC radio series of the Mighty Boosh (www.themightyboosh.co.uk)
During a sequence in which Howard tries to aid his friend Vince in a mental-imaging excercise in order to imagine a polar bear:
Howard: What's here?
Vince: A small miniature trumpet.
Howard: Pick it up, put it in your utility sack. Might come in useful later. Go on...
Vince: I'm going on... there's a sort of big angry Seaweed god on a throne. He's going "Whoooor! Whoooor!" What do I do?
Howard: Play the trumpet!
Vince: He really likes it, he's dancing!
Howard: What's happening?
Vince: He's danced himself out of the room.
Howard: Go on!
Vince: There's a door!
Howard: What's through the door?!
Vince: A polar bear!
Obscure, you may say... more a reference to polar bears really.
I'm not sure, but I think that there's a reference of Escape from Monkey Island in Scary Movie 2 when the girl moves like a monkey and says "drunken monkey". You know, one of the Monkey Kombat stances in MI4.
No. Not really. Drunken Monkey is actually a fighting style. Or not. Bot it's been done many times so I doubt it has anything to do with it.
i noticed something while playing Tony Hawk's Underground 2, on the secret Aztec level up on a higher ledge near this big statue there are two piles of Grim Fandango styled skulls, nobody i recognised though.
if anyone has the pc version they might be able to take some screenshots...
Haha! Awkwardly enough I work in the same room as the dude who did level art on that game, I asked him if he's ever played Grim Fandango and he said:
"Yes."
I asked if he put a reference in on the skulls for the Aztec temple... He said:
"No."
I asked if he liked Grim Fandango, he said:
"Totally!"
So he didn't consciously add them in there but he seemed pretty sure that he didn't do it on purpose! Too bad! It woulda been awesome. Then again, they were both working with a predefined style in the first place!
Wow, rocks having you here to give these little insights, Eric ^_^
Quote from: esperHis response?
"What's an adventure game?"
Noooooooooooooooooo! *listens to REM (http://www.ckdhr.com/hrose/songs/its_the_end.html)*
esper: You must educate the youth of today for a better tomorrow!
I once read, that in the short running Sam'n'Max cartoon show Sam mentiond a three-headed monkey in some way.
And in another episode, they visited a place called "Blood Island".