I went to U of I and I’m super curious about that “ I-L-L / I-N-I” option. Any chance someone’s found out what it does?
How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one
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#42Software teams back then enjoyed much more freedom and natural wild context. IT departments, security, audit etc weren't as pervasive as today. Yahoo chat, movie downloading, online games were all part of work life.
I think Sam Andreas' Hot Coffee reveal made a lot of studios very wary of including (on purpose, or accidentally) extra content.
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#43Reminds me of this vid by a guy who did a romhack of Chrono Trigger to propose to his then-gf who was playing through it for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HMLvLB7b0 "I proposed by hacking Chrono Trigger (Oct 24, 2008, 6m 57s)" He writes in the description about what he was going for as far as making it seem like part of the actual game while still referencing their romantic history, and how well i…
That's me! I made that 17 years ago, still happily married. Took me like two weeks of full time tinkering. It involved a lot of trial and error messing with a hex editor.
Thank you for sharing the video way back when. I remember thinking it was very touching.
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#44The heart-warming gem: > I sent a note about these Easter eggs to Scott Corley [the game's developer]. He said that he had recently pulled out the game to show the marriage proposal to his son. But he’d forgotten the code and couldn’t make it work! He and Melissa did indeed live happily ever after.
The old trope of forgetting your wedding anniversary cheat code.
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#45A guy I know proposed to his wife in the end credits of summoner. They’re still happily married afaik.
Imagine if you did that - in the end credits - and she couldn’t make it all the way to the end of the game. “Wasn’t meant to be!”
Not just that, I think it was summoner 2 which means she’d have to be real committed!
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#46I'm reminded of this proposal project done with Portal 2 that Valve actually assisted with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SdYz7cq04
It did make me think of a Borderlands one I heard about. Unfortunately, I cannot find a good writeup, and the video listed here is unavailable: https://gamesbeat.com/7-awesomely-geeky-video-game-marriage-...
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#47The Klax port for Game Boy Color (1999) contains a hidden wedding proposal. It took Mike Mika's girlfriend 3 years to find it
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#49Not video games, but the article reminded me of marriage proposals in scientific articles:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%281...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037843711...
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#50ehr.. dozens? This brings the Fallout 2 memories anyway...
For those who missed out: you could end up in a shotgun wedding then get a divorce in New Reno, Las Vegas-style.