Adventure game references

[Kinoko]

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!

[esper]

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?"

[Nikolas]

Sad for him, or for you (us)?

[Kinoko]

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.

[Ali]

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.

[Paper Carnival]

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.

[Haddas]

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.

[BOYD1981]

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...

[MrColossal]

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!

[Kinoko]

Wow, rocks having you here to give these little insights, Eric ^_^

[rharpe]

His response?

"What's an adventure game?"

Noooooooooooooooooo! *listens to REM*

esper: You must educate the youth of today for a better tomorrow!

[Tom S. Fox]

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".