New Game: Famous Last Words

[Dutch]

The idea is simple: think of famous last words people might have said....a couple of examples:

King Harold on his way to Hastings: Safety glasses? Nah thanks mate.......

The baker in London 1666: Did I turn the oven off? Yeah I am sure I did..........



Prize: Glorious fame and fortune spread to every corner, nook and cranny of this thread.........

 

[zimrahil]

@Chief taking about any Brian Lara / Ashes Cricket game in noughties:

Gameplay taken to new level / unparalleled depth / easy to learn/hard to master / advanced AI *




*all in jest Chief, I really enjoyed BLC 2005 and IC2010

 

[karolkarol]

"Nah this radium isn't harmful, turn the lights off, look it makes me glow in the dark" - Marie Curie, famous prankster

"Definitely no indians round these parts mate" - General Custer, famous blonde

"I'm going outside and I may be some time...I really need a poo" - Capt Laurence Oates, famous Polar crapper

"Two large popcorns and a tub of Chunky Monkey please...wait you're not the concessions girl" - Abraham Lincoln, famous hat and beard wearer

"Of course I'll go to heaven" - Margaret Thatcher, famous greengrocers daughter

 

[Chief]

@Chief taking about any Brian Lara / Ashes Cricket game in noughties:

Gameplay taken to new level / unparalleled depth / easy to learn/hard to master / advanced AI *




*all in jest Chief, I really enjoyed BLC 2005 and IC2010

Lol. These are definitely not mine.

Worth noting that those were the days before I was talking directly to the community: in those days PR departments used to write your quotes. Fun fact:, one of the Codies guys used to deliberately write things he knew I'd hate: and they usually ended up as headlines. (Anything with dreadful puns like "It will hit you for six" or "Pushing the boundaries" etc). They also drove the interviews/Q+As (although much of that *was* me, they always went through an editing process and things removed/added to make it "on message".)

They also collected a page of abusive quotes about me from various forums. They had it framed it for me when I left.

(NB: I genuinely loved everyone I worked with on Cricket: some terrific people: this was all done in good fun).


We DID genuinely have some stock phrases though: "Gameplay is king". We had "Built from the ground up" or "from scratch". We definitely had "bespoke engine". We had "Teach someone the sport, not the game". "Risk/Reward".

 

[zimrahil]

Lol. These are definitely not mine.

Worth noting that those were the days before I was talking directly to the community: in those days PR departments used to write your quotes. Fun fact:, one of the Codies guys used to deliberately write things he knew I'd hate: and they usually ended up as headlines. (Anything with dreadful puns like "It will hit you for six" or "Pushing the boundaries" etc). They also drove the interviews/Q+As (although much of that *was* me, they always went through an editing process and things removed/added to make it "on message".)

They also collected a page of abusive quotes about me from various forums. They had it framed it for me when I left.

(NB: I genuinely loved everyone I worked with on Cricket: some terrific people: this was all done in good fun).


We DID genuinely have some stock phrases though: "Gameplay is king". We had "Built from the ground up" or "from scratch". We definitely had "bespoke engine". We had "Teach someone the sport, not the game". "Risk/Reward".

Ha ha any chance of posting pic of the framed abusive quotes

Those stock phrases seem to get used in so many game releases too

Snooker 19 already quoting ‘built from the ground up’ but i am certain it will be built upon the 20 years of coding they have been using in the game ![DOUBLEPOST=1552742203][/DOUBLEPOST]

The idea is simple: think of famous last words people might have said....a couple of examples:

King Harold on his way to Hastings: Safety glasses? Nah thanks mate.......

The baker in London 1666: Did I turn the oven off? Yeah I am sure I did..........



Prize: Glorious fame and fortune spread to every corner, nook and cranny of this thread.........

Random vCash award for this new quiz as follows

 

[Dutch]

Thanks!

 

[Targaryen]

"Let me go to the house of the Father" - Pope John Paul II

 

[Targaryen]

"Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel" - George Appel

"Hey, fellas! how about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries." - George French

 

[Chief]

Ha ha any chance of posting pic of the framed abusive quotes
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It's in the loft at my parent's place I think. It was mostly stuff about me knowing nothing about how to make a cricket game and being a big fat liar. Couple of sweary bits: I do remember that "British Tosser" was one of the bits highlighted in bold for me.

At the bottom was a copy of the charts and some smiley faces, and with it there is what remains of a "Number 1" balloon they put on my desk the day those arrived - I say: it was all in good fun.