The Hero With a Thousand Extra Lives

On August 8, 2005, in Games, by peterb

There’s no real point behind this, and we weren’t very strict about the theme, but sometimes you just have to make a list of videogame titles crossed with famous works from other media. This is one of those times.

52. Planescape: Yenta [peterb]

51. The Chain-Gunning of Lot 49 [nlanza]

50. Atlas Quaked [peterb]

49. City of Lost Koopas [peterb]

48. The BFG 9000 [fpereira]

47. The Satanic Versus Mode [nlanza]

46. Which one of these replicants doesn’t belong? [psu]

45. Gravity’s Rainbow Six [peterb]

44. Super Karamazov Brothers [nlanza]

43. As I Lay Waiting To Respawn [nlanza]

42. The Legend of Zelda Fitzgerald: A Drink in the Past [peterb]

41. About a Boy and His Blob [rlink]

40. Song of Savepoints [nlanza]

39. Flashdance Flashdance Revolution [rlink]

38. Sonic the Hedgehog and the Angry Inch [rlink]

37. Far From the Team-Killing Crowd [jferro]

36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gnome Artificer [nlanza]

35. The Hero With a Thousand Extra Lives [jferro]

34. A Winter’s Cutscene [nlanza]

33. Pikmonomicon [jferro]

32. Heart of Eternal Darkness [nlanza]

31. The Camera Controls of Our Discontent [jferro]

30. STAR80Topia [jferro]

29. I, Robotron [jferro]

28. Nine Princesses in Another Castle [jferro]

27. The Stars, Like Grains of Katamari [jferro]

26. Kublai Ghost Rekhan [jferro]

25. Mr. Smith Goes to Save His Game and Discovers His Memory Card is Full [jferro]

24. Boss Battle on the Prairie [jferro]

23. Lady Chatterly’s Levelup [jferro]

22. Uncle Tom’s Cab Missions [jferro]

21. Johnny Got His BFG [jferro]

20. Daikatanetics [jferro]

19. The Picture of Guybrush Threepwood [jferro]

18. Jak and Daxter are Dead [jferro]

17. Does Spyro Dream of Pixelated Sheep [jferro]

16. If On a Winter’s Night a Goomba [jferro]

15. Everything That Rises Must Be Undead [jferro]

14. The Rise and Fall of Sid Meier’s Civilization III [jferro]

13. Beowulf: Total War [jferro]

12. American McGee’s The Bible [jferro]

11. I’m OK, U R the suXX0rZ [jferro]

10. War and Robinett [jferro]

9. Grand Theft Auto: A Tale of Two Cities [clamen]

8. Summer of Sam and Max: Freelance Police [rlink]

7. Dude, Where’s My BFG? [jch]

6. Run, Lolo, Run [rlink]

5. Sim City of God of War of the Roses [rlink]

4. How Stella Got Her ShadowCraft Gauntlets Back From That Fucking Looter Leeroy [jferro]

3. Around the World in 10 Days in God Mode [jferro]

2. If I Ran the Duck Hunt [jferro]

1. A Fistful of Rupees [psu]

Editorial comment: It’s clear to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that jferro won this round.

 

4 Responses to “The Hero With a Thousand Extra Lives”

  1. jferro says:

    Hardly. My brother Tim is responsible for 22 of those 28 entries.

  2. Adam Rixey says:

    So many of those sound like must-play titles. And because I’m bored:

    Frank Miller’s Sim City
    The Legend of Kane’s Mutiny
    A Treatise of the System of the World of Mana
    Mr. Ko Ran Ran

  3. jferro says:

    Although you did pick one that was genuinely mine for the title. Yay, me!

  4. deuceloosely says:

    Soul Food Reaver

    Ratchet & Tank Girl

    Wild F-Zero

    Descent of a Woman

    Godfather of War

    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Characters

    Resident Evil Dead

    Crazy Taxi Driver

    Mega-Man of LaMancha

    James Bond: View to a Gil.

    That’s enough for now, methinks.