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What was Defender called in the UK?
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
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Ironwood
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NowhereMan
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In mother UK fender is bumper. I preferred Ironwood's though.
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Engels
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I'm confused. I went back and looked at the quiz, and I could find no icon or anything that reminded me of this Defender game. Am I being particularly dense here? |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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I'm confused. I went back and looked at the quiz, and I could find no icon or anything that reminded me of this Defender game. Am I being particularly dense here? Are they suggesting the soldiers guarding the truck near the Hydrogen fuel station would be the guys from Defender? That's the best I could find. I played the hell out of defender in arcades back in the day. |
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Merusk
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Wife and I did really well on that quiz, but defender ? That's an Americanism and fucked both of us right off.
Some of them are very heavily Americanised. I would never have got Defender (thanks!), and there were a couple of others I definitely struggled with. Including NBA Jam - I got the Jam part, but NBA was elluding me. I also got a couple with sheer guessing - I've never heard of 'Tiger Heli' in my entire life, and I'm very much NES generation. I'm stuck at 51/56. Tiger Heli was awesome, I got that one right off. I was a bit surprised to see it on the list, though, since I didn't think it was all that popular. Think 1943 with a helicopter. |
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Ironwood
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I'm confused. I went back and looked at the quiz, and I could find no icon or anything that reminded me of this Defender game. Am I being particularly dense here? Are they suggesting the soldiers guarding the truck near the Hydrogen fuel station would be the guys from Defender? That's the best I could find. I played the hell out of defender in arcades back in the day. That was Vanguard. Yes, some of them are that obvious. |
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I'm confused. I went back and looked at the quiz, and I could find no icon or anything that reminded me of this Defender game. Am I being particularly dense here? The "D" pointing at the bumper of the blue car. I don't understand how this is Americanized because we call that a bumper here too. Never in my life have I heard it called a fender, I thought debumper as well. |
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Ironwood
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I was sure Fender and 'Fenderbender' to describe an auto accident were both Americanisms.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Still made it bloody hard tho. (Timesplitters also messed with my head for a while)
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Merusk
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It would help if they pointed to the actual fender and not the bumper. The fender is the cowl that covers the wheel well.
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Teleku
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It would help if they pointed to the actual fender and not the bumper. The fender is the cowl that covers the wheel well.
No, its probably better this way, because me and everybody else I know uses the word fender as another way of saying bumper. Actually (and I don't know if this just happens to be coincidence or a regional dialect difference), just about everybody I know calls it a fender in normal conversion, and only rarely use the word bumper. Also, I've only made it to 40, and am getting stumped pretty badly. I think there are some I just haven't heard of, so don't get it. I actually made it to 41 because I read above somebody saying Tiger Heli, and I never heard of it. I kept trying to type in Flying Tigers into that one because it was the only thing that made sense, heh. |
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I saw Ironwood had replied in a thread titled "Tron Legacy" and thought to myself: this ought to be good. Now I find myself incredibly confused. I refuse to read the previous two pages, however.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Teleku
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You may PM for help. Yes, I am a gracious God.
Google is also a gracious god.  I'm trying my damndest to see if I can get through this without spoilers (so far the only one being the tiger heli). I am proud to say I figured out every single other one mentioned here on my own (and defender was one of the first.  Probably because of what I mentioned before). Every other day I go take a glance at it, and suddenly one or two that I spent a ton of time trying to figure days before suddenly clicks. |
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Mattemeo
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I'm now on 54/56.
Two elude me entirely. The Crown on the Owl, and the Book with a Bull and an R on the page. Everything else I've gotten without the need to google - including some mad guesses... there have been a lot of skateboard games over the years.
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It's not a bull, think more a male goat.
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I used to write for extinct gaming sites
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Teleku
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I'm now on 54/56.
Two elude me entirely. The Crown on the Owl, and the Book with a Bull and an R on the page. Everything else I've gotten without the need to google - including some mad guesses... there have been a lot of skateboard games over the years.
Yeah, those are two that have been driving me mad. I'm still plugging away at the skateboard one myself because, well, fuck, its a kid jumping off a ramp with a skate board. That doesn't really help. I was sad to see that skate or die wasn't the answer since that was one of the first NES games I ever played as a child (and my mother yelled at my father all night for letting me come home with a game called Skate or Die. Good times). |
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Merusk
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The devil is in the details.
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Chimpy
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720 degrees? That was a skateboard game.
(have not looked at the quiz at all)
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Ironwood
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Whoops.
You may as well just have said 'Birdie King'.
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Mattemeo
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You may as well just have said 'Birdie King'.
Oh, another golf one? A US friend of mine got 'Golden Tee', I simply had no idea. I don't even register real golf as a game, let alone digitized versions of extreme boredom. |
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Golden Tee is the one in the bars with the trackball you spin wildly while drunk. So, it's actually the closest to real golf of all the golf games.
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Teleku
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Yeah, I got golden tee right off, everybody has at least some fuzzy memories of that game!
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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Rampage and Spy hunter gave me a bit of trouble as did shadow of the colossus.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Holy shit, south park just got awesome.
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LK
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What a bloody coincidence that I just deactivated my Facebook profile.
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stu
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Encom clearance arrived today!
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Dear Diary,
Jackpot!
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sickrubik
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beer geek.
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Teleku
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Why the fuck did they delay it a few days instead of putting it in front of Inception. I saw it at Imax, and they played the old Tron trailer in front of it. Seeing the new trailer in imax would have been awesome.  |
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I'm getting a very religious vibe off of the Flynn duality there....and I like it.  |
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stu
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Man, the sound design in this is going to be unreal.
Even in the trailer, the director is already lobbying to get the gig for The Black Hole remake. I'm going to netflix the original.
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Dear Diary,
Jackpot!
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Ironwood
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Ooooh, danger. Do not fuck up The Black Hole.
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