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How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

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Re: How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

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Post by Herodotus38 »

powerclue wrote: post #33
proofofconcept wrote: post #15

Reminds 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.

I remember that video! 14 years ago it inspired me, to program a text adventure game proposal for my wife (still happily married). Thanks!

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Post by robotnikman »

astrocat wrote: post #10

The 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.

Aw, that's sweet! Glad it worked out well for him, always nice to see some good news.

Re: How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

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Post by jdeibele »

theginger wrote: post #44
astrocat wrote: post #10

The 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.

I proposed on 01/01 and got married on 07/07. Both 2001 so 01/01/01 for the proposal but I didn't want to wait until 07/07/07.

I originally wanted to do 01:01 on the 1st but we both were asleep by then. We dated for almost a year before the proposal.

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Post by jihadjihad »

proofofconcept wrote: post #15

Reminds 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…

The way "romhack" was spelled made me think it meant "romance hack" for a second, which based on the video you linked seems appropriate, too.

Re: How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

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Post by pmarreck »

netsharc wrote: post #79
pmarreck wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, thanks for pointing that out, you're right. Deleted the false divorce link ;)

It even says Corley, [Actual first name] Scott (Scott as middle name). Ah, 2025, where people can't even pay attention to the order of words any more.

Maybe DBAD?

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Post by mbg721 »

bcraven wrote: post #42
zkmon wrote: post #26

Software 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.

Even before that, SimCopter had a bit of a blow-up.

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Post by dang »

muragekibicho wrote: post #31

What's the criteria for changing HN post titles? The earlier posting was 'A marriage proposal hidden across two playstation games' or something like that. Is there a HN bot doing this or is it the mods?

Yes, we changed it in keeping with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

In this case, though, "Under the microscope: NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 (PlayStation)" didn't seem right, so I used language from the opening paragraph instead. That's one valid place to look, when scouring a page for representative language suitable as a title.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re: How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

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Post by byearthithatius »

mosburger wrote: post #76

I didn't do this, but I did use a spare unsigned short (used for memory alignment) in the Quantum Atlas 10K II disk drive's servo firmware to store my wife and I's anniversary date just for yucks. :P

So incredibly niche and specific but also theoretically viewable/verifiable. This is incredible.

Re: How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

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Post by doubled112 »

_yb2s wrote: post #75
johnisgood wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"had" or "has"? Huge difference! I will assume "has". Edit: oops, yeah, "have", not "has". My bad. :P

“Have” is the word you are looking for, “has” isn’t grammatically correct. However, “had” in past tense is also correct, as it refers to the fact that they were born in the past, it does not imply (as you seem to be saying) that the children aren’t alive anymore.

I used to have kids. I still do, but I used to too!
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