The Internet isn't short on game-related humour. At every turn on the information highway (do the kids still call it that?), you'll find a comic artist who's only too willing to remind you that Princess Peach is frigid, and Mario is a sexually repressed mess because of it.
While that joke assuredly never gets old, I miss an old haunt that delivered game humour in its rawest form: Zany Video Game Quotes. Most game dialect still has a long climb before it's considered anything close to “respectable,” but today's games rarely deliver something completely baffling on the journey from Japan to your suburban American living room. The 8- and- 16-bit eras were something else entirely.
Zany Video Game Quotes is a storehouse of one-liners and truth: you can tell your kids all about A Winner Is You, or Dodongo Dislikes Smoke, but without proof they'll be like, “Nintendo games never said that! I hate you, Mom!”
Zany Video Game Quotes is also at the core of the All Your Base craze that your Uncle Steve still thinks is hilarious. A reader contributed an animated .gif of the famous intro, it fell into the wrong hands, and black magic happened. What's funny is that ZVGQ's Zero Wing page, which once crackled with enthusiasm for their original find, now carries itself with the pride of a whipped dog.
I don't want to say the site is officially dead, but without a whisper of an update for nearly three years, it's probably safe to assume that ZVGQ is not at the top of anyone's priorities anymore. This is not a true ending!
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