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No it's none of the above.  I'm not going to give up the answer so quickly though.  However, I will say, the clues are in there.  The wording is designed to be the clue.

It starts with the meeting of two failures.
They next bring about two who they thought others would admire.
But ending wrong THIS had to pay dearly.

What is it?

When I try to do a search for a game with a number after the title, the forum won't let me saying, "The Minimum Characters in a Search Word Are"  That's it.  I can't find anything with that.

You're not bringing much in here but, if you want the place to be unfamiliar to the character and it's grounded in reality, you may want your character to have been kidnapped.  Your character goes to sleep as always and you may or may not have a scene where someone stabs her with a needle or covers her mouth and nose with a chloroform-laced pad.  When she wakes up she's in an unfamiliar building.  It could be a castle, it could be a mansion, or it could be some set of warehouses.

I was told, YEARS ago, about a fighting game where you are on a spaceship with some guards and criminals.  The thing is, the ship is about to explode and there is only one escape pod.  To that end, you play as either one of the guards or one of the criminals and you fight to gain rights to the pod.  The game does have a time limit, and if you fail to win in time, the ship explodes with you still on it.  There is also armor that the guards can wear that changes their abilities depending on if it's light, or heavy armor.

It sounds plausible but I can't find it anywhere.

I'm looking for a programmer and an artist to help me make a board game using the AGS engine.

The game is called "Master of the Tarot."  It is a card/board game.  Normally, the game is to be played by 2 to 4 players but for this demonstration game program that I want, it will be 1 player against 1 to 3 computer players.

I will need someone who knows how to program for a card game that plays a little bit like the classic card game of "War" and who can program a board game that uses dice to move the pieces.

If you are willing to help me out with this, PM me and I'll send you a copy of the rules of the game so you can get a better understanding of what I am looking for.  Thank you.

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I was playing zooreal and I keep running into this when I'm in the screen with the dog and the koala.  It happens on that screen but there is no indication as to what causes it specifically.

The Top 10 Kangaroos in Games

Kangaroos: one of nature's most famous animals and yet very little is actually known about them.  The kangaroo is an animal that happens to show up very little in the media of games and yet, when they do, they can be forces to be reckoned with.  Of course, their best known feature: the pouch does tend to stand out in their appearances.  There's also the well known image of the boxing kangaroo (when fighting kangaroos actually do punch).  And let's not forget jumping, which they are believed to do all the time when moving around.  You usually end up with these three things being the dominant images when kangaroos show up in games.  Most of the kangaroos on this list are the well known "Red Kangaroo" which is considered to be the world's largest marsupial and grows to be about the size of an average sized man.   Here is a list of the Top 10 Kangaroos in video games!  WARNING: Spoilers!

10. Ikanger (Teleroboxer)

Okay not really a kangaroo per-se but instead a robot boxer made to look like a kangaroo.  However, this machine looks more like a kangaroo than some of the mentions on this list.  Found only on the ill-fated Virtual Boy system, this character hasn't been seen by most individuals.  Ikanger not only has a head that looks like a kangaroo's and boxes like one, "she" also has a robot joey that she carries around in her metal pouch.  Of course, this does make her seem more cute than cruel but it helps add to the touch. 

With the exception of jumping Ikanger actually fits the kangaroo image very well.  It's even mentioned that her creator is from Australia. 

What helps set Ikanger apart from Vanishing Bungaroo, another robot made to look like a kangaroo is that she fits the image much better, not using some form of shadowing to move around and she uses boxing as her primary form of attack.  Her legs are also designed for jumping more than running around.

9. Variously Named Kangaroos (Animal Crossing)

These animals are amongst the rarest ones you can find in your city.  If you happen to run into one, she's always female and she's always a mother.  However, they don't actually look anything like real kangaroos and they can only be identified as kangaroos by that second head that's sticking out of her belly.  These kangaroos don't actually have a single fixed name which helps to show they are different individuals rather than one being that shows up at random.  In spite of all this, they do make for one of the most exotic residents of Animal City and are the only ones to have two heads instead of one, so get a mention on this list.

The kangaroos you run into in animal crossing are varied in color and body type, which is actually true of real life.  According to the San Diego Zoo, there are close to 70 recorded species of kangaroo.  The kangaroos you find in Animal Crossing even have different personalities.  This being the case, they are fairly realistic in a game that isn't realistic at all. 

Now if only that joey's head's expressions didn't match the mother's head perfectly, they might have made it higher up.

8. Ripper Roo (Crash Bandicoot 2)

Whoever came up with this guy really hated kangaroos.  He looks more like a dog than a kangaroo, he's a masochist, laughs like a gremlin (from the Warner Bros. Movies) and with that straight jacket on him you can’t tell if he has a pouch or not.  Not to mention he's blue.

On the plus side, this is one of the few times a kangaroo shows up in a game with an appropriate setting.  Bandicoots are real animals that are native to Australia so it's only fitting that another Australian animal would show up in the game.

Ripper Roo is a recurring boss character who will bounce around trying to smash Crash in the first game, then in the second he uses a pogo stick trying to smash Crash or activate panels on the floor which will explode.  If you aren't in the blast range, he is.   Ripper Roo then get's his chops burned and laughs it up. 

He is unique in that out of all the kangaroos here he doesn't truly match any of the kangaroo symbols in that not only does he not seem to have a pouch, he doesn't always jump of his power and he doesn't use boxing. 

Hardly a likeable character but seeing that he's the only true villain kangaroo to actually show up in games and he is one of the few recurring characters he deserves a mention here.

7. Thunder (Clayfighter 2)

You can claim that this character is also a villain but she's part of a tournament so her fighting you doesn't automatically make her bad and even "hero" characters are worse than her in their endings (the Blob flattens the entire earth and most of its inhabitants).  Thunder is the "evil counterpart" to Kangoo, another kangaroo character to show up in games. 

She is the first real kangaroo on this list to be a boxer.  Thunder fights in the boxing style and is said to enjoy hurting her opponents.  She does have a joey that rides around in her pouch and he/she will occasionally help his/her mother during the fight.  The joey will peek out her pouch at the start of a match and also gets held up at the end of the match.  The most prominent view of the joey shows up at the end of the game. 

Thunder is a good character to use if you prefer close up hand to hand fighting rather than using projectiles.  She also manages to jump a pretty good high and long distance but unfortunately not much father and higher than other fighters in the game. 

What brings Thunder here over Kangoo is her ending: it's stated that if you are caught breaking her laws you must "spend three months in her pouch with a stale shellfish."  Now how she would be able to fit someone in there much less the myriad of people who would probably be caught breaking rules I don't know.

6. Roo (Streets of Rage 3)

Yes, yes, you fight this guy too.  Roo shows up along with his trainer in level 2 of Streets of Rage 3.  As many people have discovered, however, if you beat the trainer and not Roo he becomes a playable character.  Here you see, Roo was NOT evil he was just following the orders of his trainer. 

Roo is unique in this list as he wears clothing that wasn't designed for a kangaroo.  His tail clearly tore out of those shorts he wears which does lead to the question about how he got them on in the first place.

Roo is the first character here who actually kicks like a kangaroo.  If you manage to grab hold of an opponent Roo will jump up on his tail and kick using both legs.  While this is slightly inaccurate as a kangaroo can balance on its tail rather than having to hold onto an opponent, this is one of the kangaroo's strongest attacks.  He even kicks using both legs instead of one.  Kangaroos cannot operate one leg independent of the other so that's why they kick with both legs and typically hop around.

In the ways of fighting, he's number one out of those mentioned here but he only shows up in one game and other than being an animal he doesn't really stand out from the other fighters in his game.  There's also the matter of not being able to tell if he does or doesn't have a pouch so he's not higher on the list.

5. Ricky (Legend of Zelda Oracle Series)

I don't care HOW you feel about it now.  What kid who knows about kangaroos HASN'T fantasized about riding in a kangaroo's pouch?  Strangely, Ricky is the only kangaroo character in any game that actually allows your character to do this. 

Link finds Ricky in need of his boxing gloves and as reward for returning them, Ricky let's you ride in his pouch.  He actually has all three defining kangaroo features: a pouch, boxing, and jumping.  In fact, Ricky jumps much farther than Link can and that's his primary use in the game.

Why isn't he higher on the list?  There are two reasons.  The first: the fact that the games' intros show that this Link is the same one as in Ocarina of Time and therefore large enough to ride a horse begs the question just how big is Ricky to be able to carry him in his pouch?  According to the Guinness Book of World Records the largest kangaroo only stood just over seven feet.  In order to carry a full-sized human in space meant only for its young, a kangaroo would have to stand around twenty-five to thirty feet tall! 

The second reason he's not higher on the list?  MALE kangaroos don't have pouches!  Jacks don't take care of joeys so they don't need pouches so therefore they don't have them.  Did someone mention "Birdo?"

4. Roger (Tekken 2)

The first jack on this list that distinctively doesn't have a pouch.  Roger is also a boxing kangaroo who is so good he's able to hold up his own in the "King of Iron Fists" tournament but, unlike most of the other kangaroos here he has a back-story. 

Roger was the result of a genetic experiment designed to create a living weapon.  This weapon project granted him human-like intelligence and supposedly increased his strength as well.  Roger really stands apart from the other animal fighters in most games as he's actually given an explanation for why he goes so far as to wear boxing gloves and fights at a professional level.  He also shows up in later games though only at the ending. 

He does seem to be quite amoral as he doesn't much care about his wife and son and is proved to be a playboy.  The question there becomes: how inkangaroo is he?  Male kangaroos don't stick around and take care of their children and they don't mate for life so any ordinary kangaroo wouldn't have the slightest problem with his practices.

Although not currently realistic, he's closer to reality than any other kangaroo character afore mentioned and who knows?  With more research… someday… maybe…

3. KAO (KAO the Kangaroo)

There was no way around this.  KAO (pronounced "Cow" in his games with speech packs) is the only one of these characters with his own series.  He was once a happy kangaroo living with his troop until one day a hunter shows up and captures him.  He dons a pair of boxing gloves and makes his way back to save his troop.  From then on, he decides to adopt a more human manner and starts wearing clothes along with throwing boomerangs.

KAO goes on his adventures usually to stop his arch nemesis the Hunter from making life miserable for other animals.  He deals with a wide range of enemies and seems to be an altogether nice guy.

There are problems I have with him though.  I think his name should be pronounced, "Kay Oh" as it makes the boxing thing sound more linked, it sounds more male, and "Cow" doesn't refer to the kangaroo thing at all (females are called "flyers").  In the first game he's shown to have a pouch (is it really that unknown?) but his voice and how he's referred to in future games prove he's male.  Finally, there is no explanation for his "transformation" between the first and second games.  In the first game he wears no more clothing than an ordinary kangaroo taught to wear boxing gloves, he doesn't speak to anyone, and he fights like an ordinary kangaroo would.

How and why he suddenly decides to start wearing clothes, speak human languages, and learning to use human weapons is beyond me. 

2. Roger Jr. and Mama (Tekken 5 and 6)

Although Roger did show up in this list already he's not his wife and son.  The character may be called "Roger Jr." but it's his mother (referred to only as "Mama") that does all the actual fighting.

What makes them come here over even KAO?  Not only do they have all three "symbols" of kangaroos they are the most accurate, noble characters in the list!  Mama does have a pouch and carries a joey around in it, but she's female and Roger Jr. is her son so there's nothing wrong with that image.  Mama will jump when fighting but she is also capable of walking around.  Contrary to popular belief, kangaroos actually do walk around when traveling over short distances (although they use their front paws as well unlike the way Mama walks).  Mama does have dialogue in Tekken 5, but she doesn't speak in any human language.  Unlike other animal characters like Kuma she isn't understood by the human characters and only Mokujin, another character who can't speak in human languages, talks to her.

In fact, the only thing about these characters that set them apart is their slightly more human behaviors in being able to operate both legs independent of each other and being angry with Roger for his behavior and being able to figure out that the tournament is a ways to meet their ends but that's explained through genetic engineering. 

So what makes them so noble?  Roger Jr. and his mother originally enter into the King of Iron Fists Tournament to save Roger.  Money, titles, and glory mean nothing.  They go through a ton of trouble all for love.  Need more be said?

1. Unnamed Mother Kangaroo (Kangaroo)

She has no name, she has no fancy sprite, and she doesn't even have fame.  However, this unnamed mother kangaroo starred in the very first game to feature a kangaroo.  The game aptly named "Kangaroo," has a kangaroo that hops around a screen filled with a number of platforms in order to reach her lost joey who's being threatened by an army of monkeys.  She also has a mission to pick up various kinds of fruit that floats around the platforms.

Some people view this game as an Atari version of "Donkey Kong" since you have the platform thing and in the harder levels the monkeys do drop things on you.  However, the game stands out in that you never climb ropes, you don't have things like the springs bouncing around and the monkeys will throw things across the screen at you.

Like most game kangaroos she's a boxer and punches out her enemies.  Not much is known about this kangaroo but she's the absolute first one, and therefore gets the number one spot on this list.  The way must be paved somehow and she did just that.  She even goes on her quest for love of her child.  How many characters in the old games did that?


Well that's the Top 10 Kangaroos Found in Video Games.  Some people have said that I should include Kagaskhan in the mix.  This is a list of the Top 10 Kangaroos in Video Games, not the Top 10 Marsupials (animals that give birth to undeveloped young that incubate and develop within the mother's pouch).  Kagaskhan while bearing pouches aren't established to be marsupials and more importantly, they're not kangaroos, they're kangaskhan.  That's also why wallabies aren't in it.  In fact, if it was marsupials: bandicoots, koalas and possums would be in there too.  Remember that these are just my opinion and not facts set in stone.  Yes, there were a few facts in there but learning isn't a bad thing.

It WORKED!       My Top 10 list made it to the site's featured lists!  People did think it needed pictures and a bit more writing but it was featured today, February 28th!  Thanks for the feedback!

The Top 10 Kangaroos in Games

Kangaroos: one of nature's most famous animals and yet very little is actually known about them.  The kangaroo is an animal that happens to show up very little in the media of games and yet, when they do, they can be forces to be reckoned with.  Of course, their best known feature: the pouch does tend to stand out in their appearances.  There's also the well known image of the boxing kangaroo (when fighting kangaroos actually do punch).  And let's not forget jumping, which they are believed to do all the time when moving around.  You usually end up with these three things being the dominant images when kangaroos show up in games.  Here is a list of the Top 10 Kangaroos in video games!  WARNING: Spoilers!

10. Variously Named Kangaroos (Animal Crossing)

These animals are amongst the rarest ones you can find in your city.  If you happen to run into one, she's always female and she's always a mother.  However, they don't actually look anything like real kangaroos and they can only be identified as kangaroos by that second head that's sticking out of her belly.  These kangaroos don't actually have fixed names either.  In spite of all this, they do make for the most exotic resident of Animal City and get a mention on this list.  Now if only that baby head didn't match the mother's head perfectly, they might have made it higher on this list.

9. Ripper Roo (Crash Bandicoot 2)

Whoever came up with this guy really hated kangaroos.  He looks more like a dog than a kangaroo, he's a masochist, laughs like a gremlin and with that straight jacket on him you can’t tell if he has a pouch or not.  Ripper Roo will bounce around on a cane trying to smash Crash or activate panels on the floor which will explode.  If you aren't in the blast range, he is.   Ripper Roo then get's his chops burned and laughs it up.  Hardly a likeable character but seeing that he's the only true villain kangaroo to actually show up in games he deserves a mention here.

8. Ikanger (Teleroboxer)

Okay not really a kangaroo per-se but instead a robot boxer made to look like a kangaroo.  However, this machine looks more like a kangaroo than the previous two mentions.  Found only on the ill-fated Virtual Boy system, this character hasn't been seen by most individuals.  Ikanger not only has a head that looks like a kangaroo's and boxes like one, "she" also has a robot joey that she carries around in her metal pouch.  Of course, this does make her seem more cute than cruel but it helps add to the touch.

7. Thunder (Clayfighter 2)

You can claim that this character is also a villain but she's part of a tournament and even "hero" characters are worse than her in their endings.  Thunder is the "evil counterpart" to Kangoo, another kangaroo character to show up in games.  She is the first real kangaroo on this list to be a boxer.  Thunder fights in the boxing style and is said to enjoy the fight.  She does have a joey that rides around in her pouch but he/she doesn't show him/herself much.  The joey will peek out her pouch at the start of a match and also shows up at the end of the game.  What brings Thunder here over Kangoo is her ending: it's stated that if you are caught breaking her rules you must "spend three months in her pouch with a stale shellfish."  Now how she would be able to fit someone in there much less the myriad of people who would probably caught breaking rules I don't know.

6. Roo (Streets of Rage 3)

Yes, yes, you fight this guy too.  Roo shows up along with his trainer in level 2 of Streets of Rage 3.  As many people have discovered, however, if you beat the trainer and not Roo he becomes a playable character.  Here you see, Roo was NOT evil he was just following the orders of his trainer.  Roo is unique in this list as he wears clothing that wasn't designed for a kangaroo.  His tail clearly tore out of those shorts he wears which does lead to the question about how he got them on in the first place.  In the ways of fighting, he's number one but he only shows up in one game and other than being an animal he doesn't really stand out from the other fighters so he's not higher on the list.

5. Ricky (Legend of Zelda Oracle Series)

I don't care HOW you feel about it now.  What kid who knows about kangaroos HASN'T fantasized about riding in a kangaroo's pouch?  Strangely, Ricky is the only kangaroo character in any game that actually allows your character to do this.  Link finds Ricky in need of his boxing gloves and as reward for returning them, Ricky let's you ride in his pouch.  He actually has all three defining kangaroo features: a pouch, boxing, and jumping.  In fact, Ricky jumps much farther than Link can and that's his primary use in the game.  Why isn't he higher on the list?  MALE kangaroos don't have pouches!  Boy kangaroos don't take care of joeys so they don't need pouches so therefore they don't have one.  Something is seriously wrong here!

4. Roger (Tekken 2)

The first male kangaroo on this list that distinctively doesn't have a pouch.  Roger is also a boxing kangaroo who is so good he's able to hold up his own in the "King of Iron Fists" tournament but, unlike most of the other kangaroos here he has a back-story.  Roger was the result of a genetic experiment designed to create a living weapon.  This weapon project granted him human-like intelligence and supposedly increased his strength as well.  Roger really stands apart from the other animal fighters in most games as he's actually given an explanation for why he goes so far as to wear boxing gloves and fights at a professional level.  Although not currently realistic, he's closer to reality than any other kangaroo character afore mentioned and who knows?  With more research… someday?

3. KAO (KAO the Kangaroo)

There was no way around this.  KAO (pronounced "Cow" in his games with speech packs) is the only one of these characters with his own series.  He was once a happy kangaroo living with his troop until one day a hunter shows up and captures him.  He dawns a pair of boxing gloves and makes his way back to save his troop.  From then on, he decides to adopt a more human manner and starts wearing clothes along with throwing boomerangs.  KAO goes on his adventures usually to stop his arch nemesis the Hunter from making life miserable for other animals.  He deals with a wide range of enemies and seems to be an altogether nice guy.  The only problems I have are: I think his name should be pronounced, "K.O." (makes the boxing thing sound more linked) and in the first game he's shown to have a pouch.  It is really that unknown?

2. Roger Jr. and Mama (Tekken 5 and 6)

Although Roger did show up in this list already he's not his wife and son.  The character may be called "Roger Jr." but it's his mother (referred to only as "Mama") that does all the actual fighting.  What makes them come here over even KAO?  Not only do they have all three "symbols" of kangaroos they are the most accurate, noble characters in the list!  Mama does have a pouch and carries a joey around in it, but she's female and Roger Jr. is her son so there's nothing wrong with that image.  Mama will jump when fighting but she is also capable of walking around.  Contrary to popular belief, kangaroos actually do walk around when traveling over short distances.  So what makes them so noble?  Roger Jr. and his mother enter into the King of Iron Fists Tournament to save Roger.  Money, titles, and glory mean nothing.  They go through a ton of trouble all for love.  Need more be said?

1. Unnamed Mother Kangaroo (Kangaroo)

She has no name, she has no fancy sprite, and she doesn't even have fame.  However, this unnamed mother kangaroo starred in the very first game to feature a kangaroo which was aptly named "Kangaroo."  She hops around a screen filled with a number of platforms in order to reach her lost joey who's being threatened by an army of monkeys.  Like most game kangaroos she's a boxer and punches out her enemies.  Not much is known about this kangaroo but she's the absolute first one, and therefore gets the number one spot on this list.  The way must be paved somehow and she did just that.  She even goes on her quest for love.  How many characters in the old games did that?


Well that's the top 10 kangaroos found in video games.  Yes, there were a few facts in there but learning isn't a bad thing.

I got the full list.  Actually, I have a third list which is the Top 10 Deepest Quotes in games.  However, since I don't play many RPGs I haven't found enough quotes for it.

I decided that I want to do a top 10 Kangaroos in video games list.  However, I've run into a road block: I don't know of 10 kangaroos in games.  Here's what I have:

1. Unnamed Mother Kangaroo (Kangaroo)
2. Roger (Tekken 2)
3. Roger Jr. and Mama (Tekken 5 and 6)
4. Ricky (Legend of Zelda Oracle Series)
5. Kangoo (Clayfighter 2)
6. Thunder (Clayfighter 2)
7. Roo (Streets of Rage 3)

Unfortunately, the rules state I can't use the same game twice so I can't use both Kangoo and Thunder so I essentially only have 6.  Please let me know if you have any other kangaroos to contribute.  They must be KANGAROOS not some other marsupial, so Kagaskhan is out.  Please let me know the name and the game the kangaroos are in.  The game system they can be found on too would be appreciated.

Edit: I found another one:
8. Ikanger (Teleroboxer)

This one I don't know if it counts or not being that she's a robot but look it up on Youtube "Teleroboxer in 5:40.42" at 3:26 and let me know what you think.

Top 10 Weird Rules of Video Games

10. Rideable animals are expendable.  You can always find more.

The most famous of these, of course, is Yoshi from the Super Mario Brothers series.  How many times have people jumped off his back sending him to fall to his death just to avoid falling later?  And it doesn't matter, because you just find him again later in the game.  But there are also the dragons that you find in the Golden Axe series.  They too are abandoned or attacked and eventually you find another one so what does it matter?  Strangely, no matter what you do to these animals they don't seem resentful about it either.  So they seem to be quite expendable.

9. Touching bad guys is harmful to your health.

Nearly every platformer has this rule in place.  You walk around the screen and just coming into contact with the enemy hurts your character.  WHY?  Most of the characters that are in these games just walk around at a normal pace and don't seem altogether threatening.  A good example of this: Met from Mega Man.  It's a hard hat that lies on the ground.  And yet, if you walk into it even when it's not even shooting at you, you get hurt.  Why would that hurt you?  Do you stub your toes on it?

8. It's possible for a human to naturally be so big and fit that bullets can't kill him.

This is a rule that tends to pop up in first person shooters.  There are a number of terrorists that run amok shooting at you with big guns and you can shoot them in the head with your gun which can range from a simple handgun to a shotgun.  But does this kill them?  No.  They get a little hurt but they don't die.  Strangely, they usually aren't wearing helmets either.  But somehow, they are able to withstand multiple shots from bullets.  Even after they lose the fight, they usually don't drop dead either, they will fall down off their vehicle or give up the fight but your character will still walk up to them and discover they're alive!  They've been eating more than just their Wheaties.

7. It doesn't matter where you're hit.  Even strikes to the foot can beat any opponent.

Biggest staples here are fighting games and first person shooters, but some platformers are in there as well.  Take the Time Crisis series for example: you shoot your enemies anywhere, even if it's on the leg or the foot the enemies just fall over and die.  Unless you're using mercury bullets that's probably not going to kill someone.  Then of course, in fighting games you almost always have a low kick option.  The character gets kicked on the foot or the leg and they still get hurt.  If you're really good you can beat the opponent into a knock out with just low kicks to the foot.  Kind of odd that they'd get knocked out from getting hit on the foot.  Strange anatomy isn't it?

6. Getting punched or bit hurts just as much as being cut with an axe or getting shot.

This is notorious in First Person Shooters.  Anyone who's played them has played at least one where you get five or so hits that you can take before being taken down.  And of course, you will have enemy after enemy using a number of attacks on you.  Most games have those characters that will pop up just in front of you and punch at you, or slash you with a knife and SOMEHOW this does just as much damage as if you get shot by a gun-toting enemy.  Good example: House of the Dead.  There are plenty of creatures that will just bite you.  Yet, somehow, you are no more or less hurt from that than if an axe wielding zombie takes a successful slash at you.

5. Stamina is never a problem.  Even fighting entire armies of enemies won't tire you out.

In just about any game outside of RPGs hero characters just don't get tired.  How many times have players gone through six or more stages filled with legions of enemies coming out at you?  Does Mario (who's invariably depicted as being overweight) ever get tired of all that running and jumping?  Does Sonic have to stop and rest after running for miles at top speed?  Have you ever seen Haggar from Final Fight have to stop and take a break even though he's fighting an entire gang out of a whole city without a rest?  Nope.  Somehow people just don't tire out in games.

4. Women can move faster and jump higher than men.

Okay, most people know about this one in fighting games, be they beat-em-up sidescrollers or tournament fighters.  You find yourself fighting through a bunch of male bad guys and they are pretty strong but they have a very much grounded fighting style and are almost never faster than your character.  Then, suddenly, you find the first women fighters.  Suddenly, you are fighting against a grasshopper that's almost twice as fast as every male and can jump half a screen's length.  In most cases, if you fight as a female or against a female character, the greatest assets are speed and jumping capability.  Are there any slow, clumsy women fighters in the games?  I've not found one.

3. Being fat makes you stronger than being muscular.

Oh, sure, the final boss characters are usually big, muscle men types but almost every beat-em-up fighting game has its fat guys.   And what remains consistent about fat guys?  Are they slow, easily tired out, weak from lack of proper exercise types?  Nope.  They're able to take more damage than almost any other character.  Furthermore, they can usually leap an impossibly high distance into the air and crush you with their incredible weight.  Leg strength is never a problem.  Even if these people don't jump, they can charge: an ability lost on most characters and ram into an opponent with more force than any other.  Even if first person shooters, if you have a variety of body types for enemies, you'll usually encounter not a muscle man throwing barrels, but a big fat guy throwing them.

2. Eat everything.  Even stuff you find in trashcans and lying on the floor.

Yes, this happens most often in the beat-em-up sidescrollers but there are other games.  The Castlevania series has this in which you just pick up and eat food that drops to the dark, dank and slimy floors of the castle.  Then there are some first person shooters like Wolfenstein where you eat dog food and meals lying on the floor and they heal you.  Does no one in video games know about the five second rule?   Maybe to them it's the five year rule.  Somehow, no one ever gets sick from eating food that lies on the floor.  They don't even get hurt from eating old hamburgers that they find when they smash a trash can.  What the heck?  I'll just eat some trash!

1. Bad guys disappear when you kill them.

This is it!  The ONE thing that has remained throughout the HISTORY of games!  No, not every single game but every nearly every genre has this rule.  Even the first video games where you could kill your opponents had this rule.  Remember Asteroids?  The alien ship would explode if you hit it.  Do the pieces remain floating around in space?  No.  They disappear.  Go ahead a few years to Super Mario Bros.  You kill the Goomba, and after it lays on the floor for a second or two, it disappears.   How about RPGs?  Let's take Fire Emblem: you kill the enemy, they may say a few words, but they fade away and disappear.  In first person shooters like Area 51 you kill the enemies and they disappear in a splash of blood.  Beat-em-up sidescrollers, you say?  How about Double Dragon!  The enemies fall to the ground and flash a couple times and then they disappear.  Even the modern day games have this happen: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword a game that's just recently out has this rule.  You kill your enemies and they disappear in a flash of purple smoke.  Where do the characters go when they disappear?  Who knows?  But that's how you know you killed the character: they disappear.  If they don't disappear, they're not dead.

I was looking to see if you think I should change around the order of these things.  Other "rules" I have in mind:

11. You never have to hold your breath under water.  Even if you can't breathe there.

12. Objects, regardless of size or weight, never inhibit your movements.

13. Just touching a first aid kit heals you, you don't actually have to use the stuff inside.

14. "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" isn't true.

15. It's necessary to take the whole gun rather than just the ammunition.

16. You never have to use the bathroom, even after days of eating and drinking.

Let me know if you think any of these are more "worthy."

Well, here's a list I wanted to post up on another site.  They ask for more description than just the list but I wanted to run this by a few test audiences before submitting it.  What do you think? 

10. Rideable animals are expendable.  You can always find more.

9. Touching bad guys is harmful to your health.

8. It's possible for a human to naturally be so big and fit that bullets can't kill him.

7. It doesn't matter where you're hit.  Even strikes to foot can beat any opponent.

6. Getting punched or bit hurts just as much as being cut with an axe or getting shot.

5. Stamina is never a problem.  Even fighting entire armies of enemies won't tire you out.

4. Women can move faster and jump higher than men.

3. Being fat makes you stronger than being muscular.

2. Eat everything.  Even stuff you find in trashcans and lying on the floor.

1. Bad guys always disappear when you kill them.

Okay, I've decided to start writing on my own.  Here's the deal: I've gotten it to where you've been captured and are on a plane transporting you elsewhere along with a lot of other illegally captured animals.  However, you find you are able to remove your badge.  Thing is this: the animals are going to different continents of the world.  Thinking about how a game can practically be made would you recommend that you can pick and choose which animal you switch with and go that that continent and play through the entire game there and what game you play depends on which animal you choose?  Or would it be better that it's like a "Mega Man" game where you have to go to each continent to win but can decide what order you want?  Or would it be better to not allow a choice of which continent you go to and just have the game have a primarily single solid story line?

Furthermore, I was wondering: would it be better to have a single unified game spanning all the lands you visit or would it be better to have a series of games focusing on each different land you visit?

Just FYI, someone has been callling up users of Microsoft products claiming that there are viruses on the comptuers.  They ask that you are near a computer and they will "walk you through" a computer check.  I contacted Microsoft and they are aware of these calls but they are false.  DON'T do as the callers ask.  It's a scam.  Microsoft will NEVER call you about issues.  They expect you to call them for that.  So be very aware of this.

I tried this once.  Here's my advice.  Find a background that is a single color.  White is the easiest to find but it's not a very good color to use as any light that's reflected off the character will also be white.  Try something like an odd shade of red or green (chartreuse is what they use for movies these days) anyway, to do that, hang a large sheet off the wall and make sure it not only covers the background behind the character but the floor underneath him/her too.  Lighting MUST be consistent so you'll have to have lamps shining on the character so the shadowing doesn't change in each position.
   
Take photos of the individual in several posses meant for walking.  I tried ten to fifteen different poses for each direction the person moves.  Typically this was just five different spots for the person's leg to being lifted then five for the other leg being lifted while the other is put down.

Reflective accessories are not something I recommend.  Jewelry, glasses, metallic watches, etc., they look odd since they reflect so much light they're pretty much just white spots on the character.

Anyway, after you've gotten your pictures upload them to the computer.  I recommend uploading them to a program such as "Photo Shop" or "Photo explosion."  Use a color recognition selection option and select the undesired color.  Then invert the selection so you have just your character.  If you did this right, you'll have your character selected.  Copy or cut the selection and paste it into a new photo with only a white background.  Next, select the entire picture (white background included) and copy and paste it to a program that can save the file to bitmap.  I used paint.

This is important.  NEVER save this file in anything other than bitmap.  Saving the file in something other than bitmap will cause the rest of the colors, including the background to re-pixilate and if you try selecting just your image using the "transparent color background" option, you'll end up with a very splotchy aura around your character.

Once it's saved in the bitmap file, re-color the background any color that's not on your character.  Again, a strange shade of green is probably best, but if you used green then use yellow or pink.  Anyway, you'll find that your character is surrounded by a one-pixel aura of the original background color.  I've never found a way around this.  You must either erase or color over this aura in the bitmap program.  Once you've managed to get every last unwanted pixel off the character, you can return the background color to white, save the file as a bitmap and you have one shot for a sprite.

It's time consuming but that's how it can be done.

Well...  There were a few nights when I woke up in the middle of the night and saw things that weren't there:

One night, I saw an arm sticking out of the floor holding a golden, bejeweled chalice.  I watched it for a while and it sank into the ground.

The next night, I saw a gun pointed at me.  I waved my hand at it and when my hand went through the gun, it faded away.

The third night, I saw a person wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt standing in my room.  When I noticed him, he started to advance on me.  I sat up and he backed away and disappeared when he touched a chair.

But I'd say the strangest thing that ever happened to me was several years ago:

I was asleep in my bed and I was awoken by a loud sound of electricity.  Suddenly, a jolt started to run up through my toes into my feet.  The jolt rose up through my body only effecting one section of my body at a time (my legs were electrocuted but not my arms, then my arms were electrocuted but not my legs) until it passed through my head.  The sound went on for a little while and then faded away.  No one else in the house felt or heard it.  Needless to say, no one believed me either.