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The Intersection of Gaming and Futurama

Posted by Zonk on from the choke-on-that-causality dept.

Nerds made Futurama. You probably already knew that. As you can imagine, these nerds played a lot of games during the making of the show. Games ended up in the show a lot, too. Game|Life's Chris Kohler delves deeply into this connection over a series of articles; for example, did you know that Zoidberg was named for a variant of Qix ? Or that the creators of the show were big pinball players? Probably the most obvious combination of games and the show was the amazing episode Raiders of the Lost Arcade. "The evil alien is joined by his evil arcade comrades: Donkey Kong, a fried egg from Burger Time, a robot from Berserk, a brain from Robotron. Q*bert is also there, and he spouts some characteristically garbled dialogue which, when played backwards, is revealed to be "Where can a guy get some pants around here?""

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  1. best episode ever by alsrsc · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Ahhh, what an awful dream. Ones and zeroes everywhere... and I thought I saw a two." - Benderrr the Offfennderrr

    1. Re:best episode ever by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't worry Bender, there's no such thing as two.

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    2. Re:best episode ever by phobos13013 · · Score: 4, Funny

      HA, HA! Instead of shooting where I was, you should have fired where I was going to be!!!

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  2. Re:Yet still no Futurama game... by 1001011010110101 · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a Futurama PS2 game : http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/futurama?q=futurama I believe there's a Xbox version of that too.

  3. Re:Yet still no Futurama game... by MBCook · · Score: 4, Informative

    Really?

    There was a game.

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  4. Could you phrase that in the form of a "what if?" by Tetsujin · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if... that thing I just said?

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  5. Re:Could you phrase that in the form of a "what if by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fry, remind me. Disemboweling in your species? Fatal?

    "Oh yea"

    Large bet on myself in the first round.

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  6. And once again... by Bones3D_mac · · Score: 4, Informative

    All of this fine information and more is readily available on the Futurama seasons 1-4 DVDs in the commentaries section. That button marked "audio" on your dvd player remote isn't just their for looks, people!

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    1. Re:And once again... by Convector · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wait, _audio_ isn't for _looks_? That explains a lot. Now could somebody help me get these hearing aids out of my eyes?

  7. Re:Could you phrase that in the form of a "what if by Palshife · · Score: 4, Funny

    Zoidberg: "I'm going to cut him here! In the gonad!" (points to Fry's head)
    Fry: "Nobody correct him!"

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  8. Misuse of technical terms? From Wired? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 2, Interesting


    The article raises a good point -- how DOES one "dump the ROM" off a floppy diskette?

  9. Re:Misuse of technical terms? From Wired? by Lehk228 · · Score: 3, Funny

    well first you place several ROM chips onto a floppy disk. then you tilt it until the chips fall off.

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