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Because they had certificates

Happy birthday Gilbert!

when they were read

Awesome. I'm going to play all of these first thing tomorrow morning, and then cast my vote as soon as I've completed them.

his plant named Chuck.

Ah, it's the good ol' Goemon from The Legend of the Mystical Ninja.

Yep, you got it. Sorry for the late reply.
Your turn.

Arrow?

Alright, I guess it's my turn then.

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shit! He's dead!"

because God had just

Isn't that Privates?

Something that annoys me, is when cars explode when being shot at. Since they don't do that in real life. I'm ok with it when the film (or game) is supposed to be over-the-top. But when it's supposed to be realistic, it puts me off.

To get back to adventure games, I don't like when games ask people to look for their own keys (to get out of your house/ start your car). Everybody can lose their keys from time to time. However I'm reminded that I'm not the hero since I don't know where he usually puts his keys.

What if it was used as a joke?
Such as being placed in a very obvious and easy to find place, the character quickly being classified as being forgetful, and the possibility to go off on a long red herring puzzle sequence just to get the keys if you didn't pick them up?

Achievement notices in adventure games for linear plot moments...

Right when you are supposed to feel great about besting a hard puzzle and waiting to be drawn further into the story: That magical little popup in the bottom right corner shows up to remind you that you are actually just playing a game and you just earned an achievement that every single other player also got...

Makes me feel so special!

Same here.

Suddenly, a giant blue

Desperate Housewives?

Oh my, that's really good Jim.
And a lot of choice between GUI elements as well.

Now we just need another entry of this quality, so it will be an actual contest.

that of Nicolas Cage

Hello moving thread.
We've never been formally introduced before, but we have met before.

I thought it was about time we actually talked to each other.

Congratulations you five. I've guess I've got five beverages to drink now, instead of three.

Well, it's not a game, but I'll mention the obvious one that the original Pirates Of The Carribean was obviously ripped off mostly from The Secret Of Monkey Island.

In fact, I have heard rumours that it was rewritten from a script for a Monkey Island movie that never made which Lucasfilms wrote, but sold to Disney (long before selling Star Wars to them)...

From what I've heard (although I'm not sure this is true), the writer of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, was also the writer for that cancelled Monkey Island movie.

Forrest Gump was based on a book?
Daaamn. I feel like I should've known that.

Yeah, although the movie is probably better as it cuts out some the more unbelievable parts of the book like

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Gump having an orangutan friend, Sue, he learns how to talk to, and goes to space together with as a NASA astronaut, ending up stranded on a Pacific island for years due to a malfunction during reentry, living with a cannibal tribe, lead by a chess-playing chief whose pride won't allow him to eat Gump until he beats him at chess. Yeah, Gump is also a chess savant.

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There is even a book: Forrest Gump 2, by the same author (Winston Groom I believe) which is quite good and Gump even

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meets Tom Hanks at The Rainbow Room in New York, shares a table with him, and tells him his life story. Hanks replies that it's such an amazing story someone should make a movie of it one day. Years later the movie starring Tom Hanks wins the academy award and Hanks calls Gump up to the stage to accept it with them. And I'm pretty sure you can guess what Gump says into the microphone when it's his turn to speak. Hint: He had drunk a lot of Seven-Up again...

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The sequel was written after the movie became a hit (as you could tell if you have read the hidden section above) and I think it was quite a good sequal/ending to the adventures of the dude, but probably a bit too depressing to make into a movie for the most part...

Fun Fact Bonus:

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The original book of Forrest Gump is the only book I have read completely through in Japanese. The reason being is that the book only uses basic kanji and even those have furi-gana (small hiragana pronounciation next to the kanji). All this is to simulate the fact that the book is written in the first person. The English version contains grammar/spelling mistakes to simulate it having been written by Gump himself, but that would make it impossible to read in Japanese so they dumbed down the kanji as an alternative. Damn clever idea, and it meant I could read it too!

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This one post, is more interesting than this entire thread.