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dominoid Mar 2, 2004, 14:52 Who does everyone reckon were the most original game characters? In other words who stood out as different from the usual 'big breasted woman' or 'barbarian with big sword'?
A few to start with:
Dizzy - An egg with boxing gloves, how cool was that?
Sonic - A Bright blue super fast hedgehog
Seymour - A lump of putty with legs and a face
The thing from Kula World - A multicoloured beachball.
hugo-a-gogo Mar 2, 2004, 15:05 colonel mustard
the rook
jack of clubs
Ronin Da Bomb Mar 2, 2004, 15:33 Ryo Hazuki, The Main Charcter From Shenmue. Instead Of Having Massive Guns, Or Huge Muscles, This 18 Year Old Was A Classically Trained Martial Artist Who Faught With A Philsophical Approach.
Well, Either Him OR Lugio Mario, I Mean He Was Ace. A Bigger, Greener Version Of Mario Mario, How Original Was He! (Still Great Tho)
dogbomb Mar 2, 2004, 18:54 Seymour was a rip-off of Dizzy.
Original Games character... try the Evolving rabbit in Vib-Ribbon...
or the entire gang from Parappa the Rapper! Especially his "rapping teachers"!
dominoid Mar 2, 2004, 19:12 Oooh, I'd forgotton about vib. VR ruled. Was Seymour goes to hollywood just the Dizzy game that never was then? they were both done by the Darling bros right?
harry007jnr Mar 2, 2004, 19:23 Anyone remember Head over Heals?
A dog head and a cat head, which could combine into a super dog/cat head thingy. Now thats original.
dominoid Mar 3, 2004, 14:47 wow, where can I get that game? What system was it on?
harry007jnr Mar 3, 2004, 18:56 I had it on my old Amstrad CPC. Probably came out on other 8 bit machines too, try a C64 or speccy emulation site.
It was actually a very good arcade/puzzle game.
dogbomb Mar 4, 2004, 19:20 Yeah... Was a HUGE Speccy game at the time... I think someone has/is remaking it...
*hold on*
dogbomb Mar 4, 2004, 19:21 Yeah.. Here you go:
http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/
And while you're there... check out Retrospec's other great remakes!
Ronin Da Bomb Mar 5, 2004, 09:52 Oh, I Forgot TO Add Conker (From Conkers Bad Fur Day) And The Infamous 'Big Mighty Poo' Boss From The Same Game
stoke_fields Mar 6, 2004, 17:40 Earthworm Jim natch
Psy-Chrow
Queen-Slug-for-a-butt
Bob-the-killer-goldfish
Digital Dogcow Mar 9, 2004, 18:58 Fat Worm, from the ZX Speccy game Fat Worm Blows a Sparky.(the kiddies are gonna think I'm makin this shit up!)
Sweevo (ditto ZX Speccy) Sweevo's Wolrd & Hydrafool
I-Ball
The Boot or the little Scottie Dog from Monopoly.
stoke_fields Mar 15, 2004, 16:21 Zool, the Nth dimensional ninja ant
stoke_fields Mar 16, 2004, 08:03 sirk spouted:
James Pond as well.
Surely he was fundementally *unorigional* by being a wacky play on The Saint?
Vim_Fuego Apr 6, 2004, 12:07 what about having a dustman as the chief character in you game as in the old Spectrum classic callled "Dustman"
as i remember he has no special powers special moves or anything - but goddam was he able to collect the bins on a thursday morning
Vim_Fuego Apr 6, 2004, 12:09 or Camels like in Revenge of the Mutant Camels (C64) - albeit they were 90 foot high, neutronium shielded, laser spitting death camels!! but still camels nonetheless
PacMan
Roland (on the ropes, in the caves)
Horace (goes skiing)
who remembers Frogger (The road crossing frog)?
AstraL1600 Apr 24, 2004, 22:59 Ah, frogger. Had that game on the BBC Model B.
Ooh, good question...
Erm...
Jet Set Willy was top. Modern Day games, I spose Blinx, coz he can stop time and reverse and fast forward, and hes a cat.
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