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Classic Game Endings Online

Posted by Zonk on from the our-princess-is-in-another-castle dept.

Game Revolutions has a project running to collect together some of the finest game endings from the 16- and 8-bit eras. Some of the examples they have for viewing via Flash include Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, Flashback, Secret of Mana, and Starfox.

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  1. Finally! by sevenoverzero · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe I can see the ending of Zelda II...

    1. Re:Finally! by Daniel_Staal · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe I can see the ending of a game!

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  2. I'm Sorry, But the Princess is in Another Castle. by Stavr0 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Much funnier would be a list of the worst/unintentionally funny game endings.

    (A winner is you.)

  3. Corrected Firefox Link by WidescreenFreak · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is the correct link for Starfox.

    Personally, I wish that they didn't restrict themselves to consoles. There were a lot of Commodore, Amiga, and early PC games that had great endings.

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  4. Chrono Trigger by Eightyford · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chrono Trigger should take up half of the article.

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  5. Video Game Museum by Erioll · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not flash, but http://www.vgmuseum.com/ has been around a LONG time and has an extensive archive of endings.

  6. Why don't you... by Eightyford · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why don't you just find out for yourself? link

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  7. My favorite game ending by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I beat Infocom's game Enchanter by (somewhat accidently) exploiting a couple of game bugs. So I didn't have full points at the end. This wasn't ever supposed to happen of course, but there was still a cool ending where the circle of Enchanters expressed vague disappointment in my deeds, saying that "something was missing."

  8. Great! by WMD_88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe now I can finally figure out how Tetris ends!

    1. Re:Great! by spune · · Score: 5, Informative

      On the Gameboy version, winning Game B, level 9, 5 high results in a ending sequence. First, a bunch of dancers and musicians perform for you, then you watch a shuttle launch.

      In Game A, attaining certain high scores is rewarded with smaller spacecraft launches, started with a puny probe and going up in size to some moderately impressing rockets.

  9. Warning: virus at that vgmuseum site. by Eric+Coleman · · Score: 3, Informative

    The vgmuseum.com site tried to isntall "Downloader-RK" on my computer via its popup advertisements.