At PAX East, geek hero Wil Wheaton decided to check which generations the thousands of people attending his keynote were from by testing some gaming one-liners. People roared for each one.
“It is very dark”
“You have died of dysentery”
“Roll initiative”
“Shots do not hurt other players … yet.”
“Enchompment? Enchompment!”
“I play Dark Lotus and Black Lotus and summon a Sengir Vampire.”
“Our princess is in another castle”
“on see yend, uh tard, el hee-um” [Note from Stephen: Someone, please help! That is the phonetic spelling of whatever it is he said. I have no idea, but tons of people were howling for it.]
“Game over, moonpie”
Honestly, I felt like less of a gamer after hearing the crowd lose it for all of those, because I never head of some of them. You?
Gobbo
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 12:37 PMIf it makes you feel any better, I only know the mario one… -_-
welbot
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:07 PMThe game over moonpie could be a referene to his wil’s appearance in The Big Bang Theory when he played in a magic the gathering style card game competition against Sheldon. Sheldon’s grandmother (or Meemaw sp.? as she’s known to him) gave him the nickname of Moonpie when he was young, and he revealed this secret to Wil during the competition. Wil then proceeded to mock Sheldon and use this knowledge to his advantage.
Barry M
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:18 PMwell it would help if some were right..
“I play Dark Lotus and Black Lotus and summon a Sengir Vampire.”
there is no Dark Lotus. i think it is meant to be Dark Ritual but that would leave 1 mana burn of which could be done.. but it would make more sense to be:
“I play Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual and summon a Sengir Vampire.”
jld
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 4:54 PMDark ritual, black lotus and Sengir vampire would be a fine first turn, mana burn or not. That’s probably what he meant, or maybe even said :-p.
It’s from Magic the Gathering btw.
Rod
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:23 PMMario, Zork, Oregon Trail(?) and ummm…uhhh… hmm.
Vellan
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:25 PM“It is very dark” = Zork (aka you are about to be eaten by a grue)?
“You have died of dysentery” = Oregon Trail
“Roll initiative” = DnD
“Enchompment” may refer to Dragon Age.
Milly
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:30 PMI only know Mario and Roll initiative… how old the games those are from?
SASmusashi
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:31 PMThe dysentry one rings a bell. Was that from that really old, old, old game where you had to cross America in a caravan with some settlers or something. What was that called…?
Gino Rodrigo
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 4:33 PM..Oregon Trail?
Random
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 4:21 PM“Shots do not hurt other players … yet.” would be Gauntlet, I think…
Maxim
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 1:31 PMcorrect…god I wasted so much money on that game
SASmusashi
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 12:13 AMThank you Gino, good memory!
Tonare
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM“on see yend, uh tard, el hee-um” is from the Penny Arcade Dungeons and Dragons Crawl Podcast. Wil played a Eladrin Avenger. This phrase was used whenever he made an “Oath of Enmity”