Lite Switch: Nov 5, 2025 | RTFM
In this Lite Switch episode of The Old SwitchAroo, we have some bonus content that couldn't fit in out Season 3 16th bit retrospective. See if you can beat Jaymo at our returning trivia game RTFM, or Read The F---ing Manual, where he's challenged to see how many characters and places he can name based off of how they're described in the original video game manuals that the retro games we played this year would've come with.
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Game on, everyone.
(0:00) Intro
(0:57) RTFM Introduction
(2:56) RTFM Round One
(7:10) RTFM Round Two
(15:24) RTFM Round Three
(26:50) Outro
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I don't know where my Genesis
could be.
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I haven't seen my Super Nintendo
since 2003.
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That's all right.
I don't mind.
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I've got a Switch in the old
Switch room.
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My friend Mike and Jamo too.
Welcome back to the old
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switcheroo where we're talking
gaming retro with Mike and Jamo.
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We're still on our season break
before we start Season 4, so
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this episode we have a special
feature from our Season 3
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sixteenth bit retrospective
finale.
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We had so much fun in that
episode with the questions we
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got from our Season 3 guests
that to keep the episode from
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running too long, we caught one
of our games from the final
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episode.
So in this light switch episode,
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here's the return appearance of
our game manual quiz that we
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call RTFM.
Enjoy.
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I believe you have one more
trivia game for us for me to
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play.
Yes, so with a little bit of a
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modification I am bringing back
RTFM.
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Read the freaking manual, but
not people.
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Just RTFM.
Yes.
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OK, so it's going to go for
things mentioned in the manuals
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beyond just the characters.
It will be people and places.
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People and places.
OK, awesome.
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And they're kind of both mixed
in here.
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I am presuming that you were
able to figure out whether
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something is describing a person
or a place.
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I mean, I'm an English teacher,
I should have nouns down by now,
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but you never know.
We'll find out and so how this
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will work.
All of these come from the
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description sections in manuals.
So this isn't me writing a
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summary or something.
And it's not like taking a
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paragraph of a of like a back
story.
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It's when they go, these are the
characters or these are the
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places or these are the enemies.
Yeah, all of these come from
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that, from various games that we
have played.
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Some games may appear more than
once.
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Some games may appear not at all
because their manuals don't say
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much.
OK, but more than once, things
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that throw me off.
But I'll do my best and I did
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really well last season, so I'm
kind of nervous, yeah.
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And so there'll be 3 rounds of
questions which I've attempted
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to put by increasing difficulty.
So the first round it will be 1
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point for the game, one point
for the character or place or
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what have you.
And then it'll go up to two
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points for each for the second
round, three points each for the
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last.
So there's 100 total points.
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My body is ready.
OK.
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And I will also mention some of
these have been slightly
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modified to remove specific
proper nouns.
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I trust you.
I shouldn't, but I do.
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Yeah, that's just for that.
That's the disclosure.
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That is what's happening.
All right, here we go with the
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first round.
There will be 8 in the first
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round #1 uninhabited of the
fortresses.
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It places a spell on you to turn
you into an eggplant.
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In order to break the spell, you
must go to the Fortress
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Hospital.
Could it be the eggplant wizard
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Mike?
It could be and that is the
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eggplant wizard from.
Kid Icarus?
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Yes.
Do I get a point for name of the
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game as well?
Yes.
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Oh, nice.
Oh, it's like I could get the
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game but not remember the
character.
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OK, yeah, OK, I'm ready.
Got it, Got it.
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Or the the real hope is that you
get the character and
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misidentify the game.
This island is a miniature
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version of the United States.
You've seen some areas before,
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but the best attraction is Mario
Rock on Mount Rushmore.
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I believe it was called Little
States and it was definitely
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Pilot Wing 64.
Yes and yes.
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Nice. #3 he is definitely the
most powerful of all his
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friends.
If the contest relies on muscle,
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this character will win hands
down.
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Well, it feels like something
from a Mario Party description
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because it's talking about
friends, so I'm going to guess
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Donkey Kong from Mario Party.
Yes and yes.
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Nice, proud of myself.
That one was a little shaky.
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A hand comes out from her body.
She bounces off walls like a
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ball, but if she's hit by one of
sea urchin's needles, she
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bursts.
She attacks Sea Urchin by giving
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out electric shocks.
That is my girl Bubbles from Klu
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Klu Land.
Or I guess not my girl since I
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said she had the worst game of
the season, but that is
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someone's girl.
Bubbles from Klu Klu Land.
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The next one.
This place is set in the
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mysterious engine room.
Steel doors block many of the
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junctions, and players may only
take the paths that are open.
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The doors move at the end of
each round, changing the paths
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that can be taken.
That was Luigi's sweaty, steamy
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engine room, or as I think it's
actually just called, Luigi's
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engine room from Mario Party.
Yes, it is.
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He lives in the forest.
Unlike the others, he does not
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have a guardian ferry to call
his own.
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Well it's definitely Ocarina of
Time, but I don't think well is
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it Link because Navi is
technically not your fairy at
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the beginning.
I feel like it could be Link,
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but also I feel like there was a
boy in that town who didn't have
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a fairy and was a kind of a but
about it.
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But since I can't remember that
character's name I will.
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I will take my Ocarina of Time
point and just throw a Hail Mary
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pass and say that maybe it's
Link.
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It's link.
Yeah, that's.
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The whole point is at the start
he doesn't have one and everyone
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else does.
OK.
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He is a sarcastic old priest who
protected the temple until
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someone had the nerve to land a
large spaceship on it.
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His healing skills will be handy
to have around when the fighting
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gets intense.
That is the king of the dead
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jokes.
Raja from Fantasy *4.
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Yes, it is.
I'm nervous that these are the
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easy ones though because I'm
sweating a little on some of
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these.
The easy or mostly easy all.
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Right, last question of round
#1.
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These All Stars always seem to
These All Stars are.
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Yeah, right.
This does some annoying
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consonant things.
Try this the third time.
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These All Stars always seem to
bar Mario's way just when he's
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within sight of the goal.
They use a variety of bullheaded
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attacks, so you'll really have a
tough time checking them.
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Well, I feel like you did me a
favor by saying Mario in there.
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I thought you took out proper
name or.
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I I mostly did.
Definitely Super Mario World and
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I know that they look identical
to charging chucks so it's the
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ones that are jumping up and
blocking your way.
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I don't think they had a
distinct names.
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I will just say charging Chuck
Super Mario.
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World, those are the charging
chucks.
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OK cool, because some of them
charge and some of them just hop
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up endlessly trying to block
you.
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Yes, I think they all are the
same.
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Yeah, they're considered the
same enemy, just different
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behaviors.
So for the first round, that is
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a clean sweep.
Yeah, I'm proud of that.
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So now we move on to round two.
I'm.
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Ready.
A mysterious man who speaks
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fluently in six languages.
It is rumored that he formerly
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was an Air Force pilot.
Interesting.
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A mysterious man speaks fluently
in all four in in 4 languages.
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It was rumored he was once an
Air Force pilot. 6 languages.
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I don't know if the number of
languages will make a
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difference, but it is 6.
I mean, this feels like a pilot
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Wings character, but the whole
he was rumored to have been a
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pilot would seem kind of
uninteresting for a Pilot Wings
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game.
And then I guess there were the
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little debriefings.
So man, I think I'm going to
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stumble out of the gates first
Round 2.
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But I'm going to say the game
was Pilot Wings SNES, and the
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character was your trainer guy,
the guy with the glasses.
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Do I get any points?
I mean, there's 4 trainers in
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that game, this is one of them.
This is Lance.
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OK.
Was he the last one?
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Because that's what I was
thinking of.
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No, he's the second to last.
So I only get the point for the
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game.
Yes.
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OK, I'm not mad at that.
I I got something out of it.
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Next one he lives to avenge his
parents who were killed when the
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dark wizard destroyed their
village.
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The only other surviving member
of his family is his little
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sister, who remains in another
village.
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He relies on brute strength and
his skills with the axe.
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Oh, that's Griz fantasy *4.
Yes.
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Nice.
I was going down to Cristal Pass
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for a second, but I was like oh,
this goes with the axe.
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That's because there's a whole
thing about how, like, his axe
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actually had, like, gore in the
Japanese release.
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Yeah, awesome. #3A truly
soundless planet where not even
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a single noise can be heard.
Well, it's silence and it's, I
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guess we'll say F0 and F-099,
but F0.
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It's F0.
There is no manual for F-099,
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true to my knowledge.
Yeah, and I was in the plan.
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It's called silence.
Yes.
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Nice.
A N European legend that has
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been passed down from generation
to generation about a cursed man
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with the iron mask of blood and
the shield of death.
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When he was young he studied
Eastern philosophy and became
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interested in Japanese martial
arts.
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Now he seems to be invincible
with the secret fighting
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techniques of the Orient.
Oh.
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My gosh I didn't.
This sounds like a Ninja Gaiden
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boss the way you describe them.
I wasn't aware that that game
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had character names in the
manuals, so I'm going to guess
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the first boss of Ninja Gaiden.
The guy in the club, I think he
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has a mask and a knife.
I I don't know his.
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Do I?
Do I get a point?
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If I'm I'll just that's my
guess.
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I'll let you decide the point
distribution.
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He is, I believe, one of the
later ones.
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This is Bloody Moth.
From Ninja Gaiden, yes.
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OK, all right again, got the
game.
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Not mad about that.
All right, on to #5 This
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moderately odd woman lives to
the northeast of the village.
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They say she can create a
variety of secret medicines.
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You should visit her house at
least once on your adventure.
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That is moderately odd woman.
I want to get Jackie a shirt
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that says that she would love
that.
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And if you're listening to me, I
love uni on the thug.
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An insult definitely makes
awakening.
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She was the cute witch who would
like stir up stuff for you.
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But I'll be darned if I remember
the witch's name, so I'll just
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say her name was.
Gert, Gert, Gert Gertie.
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Gertie, the Witch from Link's
Awakening.
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That is crazy Tracy from Link's
Awakening.
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OK, OK, crazy Tracy.
I don't appreciate that.
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That Pejorid Gertie was way
better.
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All right, the next one.
Princess of the land as
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beautiful as a water Lily.
Is that all I'm getting?
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Yep, that's all you're getting.
Princess of the land as
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beautiful as a water Lily.
Am I allowed to look at the list
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of games from the season?
Did we decide that was fair?
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You know what?
Since I have explicitly let you
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know that things can make
reappear, sure.
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OK Oh, that's the one that has
the season 2 of things.
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Princess of the land.
As beautiful as a water Lily, I
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guess.
Well, it would either be ghouls
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and ghosts and ghosts and
goblins, but I feel like they
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wouldn't have a unique character
description for Princess Print
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print.
So I am going to say, could this
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be a Mario Party description?
Could it be describing Princess
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Peach?
It also feels like something
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from Ocarina of Time, though I
don't think we've gotten one
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from Ocarina of Time.
So I'm going to guess Ocarina of
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Time, and I'm going to guess
Princess Zelda.
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It is not Dang.
It on either one.
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I would say that is even
inaccurate to the statement of
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we haven't had one from Ocarina
of Time.
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Oh, did we have one earlier
link?
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Oh, sure, the OK, what was it?
That is Min Min from Kung Fu
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Heroes.
Oh, whatever.
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God, yeah, I remember.
OK, All right.
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I honestly forgot she was there,
so I guess I'm not a real
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feminist. #7 it's the head.
Yeah, yeah.
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I got to want to.
I want you to keep that now. #7
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it's the head of mini boss
hideout one.
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It jumps up into the air and
breathes fire.
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It's the original life form of
the planet and is controlled by
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the boss.
Destroy it and you win 75
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missile blasts.
OK well so definitely Metroid
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doesn't sound like Metroid 2
because I'm pretty sure all the
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bosses in Metroid 2 are just
bigger and bigger metroids.
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So I'm going to guess Metroid on
the NES and jumps in the air and
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shoots Fireball.
That would be Ridley, I think.
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Yes, it is.
Yeah, OK, redemption #8.
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The leader of a renegade band of
thieves known to hide out in Red
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Canyon.
It is known that he participates
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in the Grand Prix under an
alias, and it is also rumored
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that this machine is stolen
property.
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I feel like this one should have
been an easy round, but that's
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Samurai Goro from F0.
I didn't know how well you would
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get the name.
Yeah, of him.
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He's a he's an assist trophy and
Smash Brothers, so he's been on
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my radar a lot.
All right.
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Yeah.
That that was that was why he
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ended up in that category.
I'm like, I think that will be
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the trickier part.
And then earlier when you went
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through all of the racers by
name, like, well, he's set on
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that question later.
I'm a nerd.
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You can't stop me.
All right?
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This is final round.
We have one more of this round.
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Oh, OK, I'm ready.
The wicked creature of legend.
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If you are caught unaware by her
beautiful female form, she'll
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attack you with the steely claws
on her feet.
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That is Kid Icarus and I believe
it's just called the Harpy.
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You are very close.
Dang it, it is Kid Icarus,
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right?
It is Kid Icarus.
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OK.
It is called the Siren.
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OK I feel like in some versions
of mythology sirens and harpies
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are like interchangeable but.
I honestly that I think that one
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does appear to be closer to a
heartbeat than a siren in terms
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of the mythology.
Right cuz Siren would be aquatic
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and they're bird like in that
game.
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Yeah.
So it's I wouldn't say aquatic,
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but at least like near not
flying.
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Right.
Yeah, they're beach bound
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usually.
All right, OK, so now on to
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beast mode.
Yes.
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All right, OK, I'm I'm still
happy.
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I was, I was nervous going into
this, but I think I'm being, I
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think I had a respectable
performance.
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Let's see if I can hold on to
it.
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All right, on to Round 3.
So now three points for the
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character, or place three points
for the game.
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Ready.
Question one, they are the
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strongest of all the enemies you
will encounter.
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There is no way to successfully
attack them.
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Oh boy, it's an enemy that can't
be killed.
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Which I'm pretty sure was a
Zelda game.
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The question was, was it Ocarina
of time or was it Links
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awakening?
That's that's where I'm stuck
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right now because I don't think
Kung Fu heroes had an unkillable
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enemy.
I know super guy didn't didn't
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Mega Man.
I think there's a way to kill
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everything.
There are those weird invisible
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enemies in Crystallis that we
can never figured out how to
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kill.
But I don't think they'd give a
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name to that because happy
didn't know what it was.
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So I'm going to say Lynx
Awakening, the Dungo Rock
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mahjong for my never mind.
Yeah, the the the the Dungo Rock
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from Lynx Awakening.
You have twice veered back in
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the direction of the correct
game for this.
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It is not that game now.
Does Ocarina have time?
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No, no, no, no.
You've, you've said it earlier.
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And then that last bit.
This is Kung Fu heroes.
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This is the Bison commandos.
You couldn't kill him.
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I thought you could kill
anything in that game if you got
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the right power.
Up No, Then no.
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There's some A There was some
nonsense.
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B.
What happens in the game and
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what was written in that manual
are not necessarily the same.
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I believe we did talk about how
bad that was.
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OK, yeah, that one belongs in
the hard category.
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All right, man, my, my annoyance
with that game is increasing.
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It's going to be bumped up to #1
OK, or bottom, I guess.
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All right, next one.
Small and calm, she sometimes
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makes mistakes because she gets
too confident.
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Mom and calm, she sometimes
makes mistakes because she gets
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too confident.
OK I'll be happy if I get this,
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but I strangely feel like that's
Kiwi from Pilot Wing 64.
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You are very close.
Is it pilot wing 64 it?
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Is Pilot wing 64.
This is Ibis.
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OK, I thought Kiwi was the
smallest female pilot.
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Hello.
OK.
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Yes, her descriptions more about
how.
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Actually I think her description
is more how she's just a double
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of the other one of the other.
Like light one but theirs are
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both.
Like they get pushed around by
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wind a lot.
Sure, explicitly mentioned.
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But yes, you did get the game #3
He guards the house, he shoots
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sideways and downward.
You need 10 shots to kill him.
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Guards of the house, he shoots
sideways and downwards.
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You need 10 shots to kill him.
Guards the house.
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OK.
Oh, there's been a lot of
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platformers this season.
I don't think they'd say guards
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the house if it was a Mega Man
character.
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Ghosts, Ghouls and ghosts had
the fire dog.
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That sounds like guarding the
house.
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But he didn't shoot sideways and
downwards.
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He shot downwards and jumped
across.
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Don't feel good about this one.
Can't even be Kid Icarus, but
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guards of the house is really
throwing me off.
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I, I will say that seemed weird,
I think when I would have read
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the manual and looking back at
this when I went back to get
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these and I went in like, Oh
yeah, right.
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I guess I that that is what that
is.
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OK, well for the sake of keeping
the game going I'll say ghouls
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and ghosts and the fire dog, but
I don't feel confident about
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either answer.
That's my guess.
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Right franchise.
So super ghouls and ghosts?
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No ghosts and goblins.
This is big man from Ghosts and
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Goblins.
Big man doesn't shoot sideways,
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does he?
Oh, I'm thinking of the pigs
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that vomit.
OK, yeah, OK.
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Big man.
Yeah, the guy with a little
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heart tattoo.
I think it's the one where in
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the you have to go up and then
over and then back down all the
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the ladders.
Yeah.
356
00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,520
Yeah, yeah, where I, I spent, I
spent a lot of time there.
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I'm very familiar with him now.
All right #4 jump on it to make
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it roll.
You can also hold it or throw
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it.
Jump on it to make it roll.
360
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,240
You can also hold it or throw
it.
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Well, I think the only game we
played that has a mechanic where
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you're holding and throwing
objects is Super Mario World.
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So unless this is from a Mario
Party mini game, but I don't
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think the manual got that into
it.
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But I feel like Mario World, all
the things you'd throw would be
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like shells, and you wouldn't
say that those roll that Super
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Mario World, the Koopa.
That is the description of the
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Goomba from Super Mario World.
You can't throw all the round
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goombas, right?
Because that game had the
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rounded Goombas that you could
throw.
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You like jump on them and they
get knocked over, then you can.
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OK, all right, Well, he got the
right game.
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Yeah, no, well done.
I'm getting into that it.
374
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Yeah.
Thank you.
375
00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:58,960
Yeah.
When I was going through like
376
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that is the weirdest description
of a goomba I have ever seen.
377
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This is obviously in the quiz.
But that's also the one game
378
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where Goombas will roll across
the ground.
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So I just don't think of them as
Goombas, I think of them as
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something else.
And Speaking of #5 it will roll
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up its body like an armadillo,
then rush at you it.
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Will roll up its body like an
armadillo and then rush at you.
383
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Metroid.
But it could also be saccharine
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of time.
Could maybe even be Mega Man.
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I don't think anything does that
in the Ghosts and Goblins
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series.
Which one haven't you done in a
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while?
I think you've done any Mega
388
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Man, but you hated that game.
I don't know if you do Mega Man,
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Let's let's, let's, let's, let's
throw a wild card in, let's say
390
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Metroid 2, Return of Samus, and
it's one of the.
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Metroids.
It is Metroid 2.
392
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Oh yeah.
It is not one of the Metroids.
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I'm OK with a robot or
something.
394
00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:06,120
It is Arachnus.
Of course, the classic.
395
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All right, I'm happy with that.
Throwing some at the wall and
396
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seeing what sticks and something
actually stuck.
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From this forgotten cemetery,
zombies arise to attack the
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living.
Only the brave of heart will
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survive a journey through this
cursed land.
400
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,800
So I have to get the right
ghouls and ghosts, ghosts and
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goblins game.
Yes, you do.
402
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:32,760
That's freaking harsh.
Well, I don't think you've done
403
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one from straight up ghouls and
ghosts.
404
00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:35,920
So I'll say straight up ghouls
and ghosts.
405
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:44,280
And I will say that the level I
should know this because I was
406
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listening to the lo fi of it to
make those Tik toks.
407
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,120
It was like wild graveyard or
something like that, or
408
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graveyard, night graveyard.
Maybe it's night graveyard or
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graveyard night.
I'll say graveyard night, ghouls
410
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,360
and ghosts.
So it is not it is not ghouls
411
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and ghosts.
Whatever.
412
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What is it?
It it's super ghosts and
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goblins.
OK, it's super.
414
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,760
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wait, no, we don't play Super
415
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Ghosts and.
Goblins suits.
416
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,800
Sorry I I screw this up.
I get a point now.
417
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,200
Super goals and goes let this
go.
418
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,320
I was going to give you a point
someplace else on this.
419
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,920
OK, super whatever.
Never change your franchise
420
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names like this.
Please don't do that to the game
421
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developers of the world.
It is the haunted graveyard.
422
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OK, so it was the grave.
I don't know if I get that.
423
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I feel like I didn't earn that
one.
424
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On Genesis, that first level is
called execution place.
425
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,440
That's cool.
So they are actually.
426
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It's not just the same place,
but different.
427
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,600
Just like different descriptions
that they are called, they have
428
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different names too.
Gotcha.
429
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,960
So what?
I'm going to do is I will give
430
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you a one on the name given that
there were multiple names and
431
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,080
you kind of got there and that
was just an adjective thing.
432
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:03,120
OK, I'll take it. #7 An
inhabitant of the enemy's nest,
433
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A real coward.
It hates brightly lit places.
434
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However, it'll jump out real
fast once it's spotted you.
435
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,520
Inhabitant of the enemy's nest.
It hates brightly lit places,
436
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:20,560
but it will jump out at you.
It's the Ocarina of Time, and
437
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:27,600
it's the little plant guys that
you can't do, like sneak up on,
438
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I think.
What were they called?
439
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:36,160
It's not Skull Kid, but it's
like Skull Kid Deku, Deku
440
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:44,760
something, Deku shrub, Deku
Goblin, Ocarina of Time, the
441
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,840
Deku scrub.
It is not that gay.
442
00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:51,480
Dang it, what is it?
I see how you got there.
443
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Like, that was a big reasonable,
yeah.
444
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:54,800
Yeah, I don't feel bad about
that, this.
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Is from Kid Icarus.
OK.
446
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,200
That is spec nose.
Wow, that one they named after
447
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,840
the composer.
Exactly.
448
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,840
Yeah.
All right.
449
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,640
That was the only reason I felt
that was fair.
450
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,400
I was like, He talked about this
character in particular.
451
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,520
Yeah, but the behind the scenes,
not the on the scene.
452
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,240
Yeah, but it was, you have no
idea how many weird names there
453
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,560
were.
I could have been pulling out of
454
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,600
especially Metroid and that.
Yeah, you're being pretty fair.
455
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,960
All right, this is the last
question of the game.
456
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,120
OK, Which is mostly there
because I needed one more in
457
00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:32,600
this round to bounce out points.
So this may not be as hard as it
458
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,760
appears, but or maybe it is, I
don't know.
459
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:40,120
That's what he said.
Beyond the windmill is an abyss
460
00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:42,600
which you can never return from
if you fall.
461
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,160
Well, it's got to be Crystallis
because I don't remember any
462
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,360
other game.
Well there was a windmill in
463
00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:53,080
Ocarina of Time, but gosh Dang
it I just.
464
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,680
You haven't done a Crystallis 1
yet?
465
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,280
I don't think so.
I will say it's the endless cave
466
00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:02,360
in Cristalis.
I haven't done a Cristalis one
467
00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:05,920
because Cristalis and Mega Man
both don't have descriptions in
468
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,240
those manuals.
Whoops.
469
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,560
OK, well, going out with a
whimper, what is it?
470
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,040
That is the village of decay.
Oh, in ghouls and ghosts.
471
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,960
Yes, cool.
OK, So what was my final score?
472
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,880
Your final score is 50 points.
50 points.
473
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,920
Do you remember if that was
better or worse than last
474
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,640
season?
I want to say last season was
475
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,440
also fewer points, I think.
I think it's a lot better
476
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,480
percentage though.
I nintended do better Nintendo
477
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:43,240
Wii computer stinking in my
sound effect wherever I can get
478
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,480
it.
Mike, that is such a fun game.
479
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,080
Thank you for making that for
me, I really appreciate it.
480
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,120
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481
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