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- The name of the video game.
- The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] Explanation Like this.
- Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
Individual examples:
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- Action 52: The Cheetahmen ran off... And now... The Cheetahmen Explanation The text on the last screen of the opening cutscene of "The Cheetahmen," which clumsily attempts to narrate an Excuse Plot.
- Age of Empires:
- Wololo Explanation The sound that a priest makes in the first Age of Empires. Became a taunt for Age of Empires II. The Internet then ran with it, having various images being "converted" from red to blue for example.
- Rogan? Explanation One of the speeches when selecting a villager.
- The image of the king from the cover of Age of Empires II became an "advice animal"-style meme, often lampshading the strange logic of the games. Text accompanying him included "Attack stone castle. It catches fire" and "10 elephants fit in a boat. 11 archers don't."
- La Hire's Sword has not tasted blood today. Explanation La Hire's Third-Person Person speech patterns have become quite memorable among the fandom.
- SEND FORTH THE FLAMING CAMELS! Explanation A memetic line said by Tamerlane at the start of the mission "Sultan of Hindustan" when he reveals his secret weapon to counter Shah Tughluq's War Elephants. This became an Ascended Meme when the Flaming Camels were added to the Tatars.
- Altered Beast (1988):
- WISE FWOM YO GWAVE! Explanation This line is uttered in the beginning of the game and ends up sounding like it's said by Elmer Fudd due to hardware limitations.
- POWER UP.
- NEVER GIVE UP. Explanation Said when using a continue in the Arcade version only, as the Genesis version did not have enough space to recreate the quote.
- WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM! Explanation The Big Bad's line before every boss fight.
- This whole video
of Amnesia: The Dark Descent Explanation This reaction video has come to represent the level of fear you experience while playing.- What even is that thing? Explanation Whatever it is, it is not traditional fire.
- The "Not a traditional fire" line actually became a Fun T-Shirt at one point, qualifying as an Ascended Meme in the process.
- Oh GOD, I have to go into this next room. Explanation Is pretty much the unofficial tagline for the game. Every time the player enters a new room, they have to face a brand new horror. Or sometimes, nothing at all.
- Oh shit, I have a bag of Milky Ways! :D
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! Explanation The video in question is taken from three friends playing simultaneously while chatting. One of them finds a bag of Milky Ways right before something scary happens to another, making it sound as though the player was in mortal terror of said candy.
- The floor is made of terrible!
- Go to (pick any level), NOPE. Explanation Another popular gif shows a player opening a door only to be confronted with a monster emerging from the shadows. Their reaction is to simply shut the door and briskly walk back the way they came.
- Similarly, there's the shortest Let's Play ever.
- Anonymous Agony:
- YE YE YE Explanation The first few words of a song called "Playback" by Nieve. About 80% of the game uses it, so it wormed its way into the players' heads.
- YOU BETTER CHECK YO EXO SKELLO TEEN Explanation Another line from that song.
- Ouch dad, isn't it society's fault I'm the way that I am? Explanation One of Haze's lines to his father, mocked as typical edgy gamer speak and for its relation to other "society" memes.
- Stop being such an ass Haze! Explanation Clara keeps calling Haze an ass. Her high voice and young age make it rather funny.
- Smoothie time. Explanation Craig's line after receiving a blender from Haze.
- Haze is literally me. Explanation Haze is the logical conclusion of a Troubled Teen as an adventure game protagonist. Many people used this line ironically to point out how Haze's personality and worldview weren't too different from their own at his age.
- Antimatter Dimensions:
- 5 hours until the update Explanation When someone asks when the next update's going to come out, "5 hours" is the standard response. For the time the Reality update was in Development Hell, it had become increasingly inaccurate, especially when the Steam version was given the release date of "In 5 hours™".
- Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel:
- Buri Hamachi, Buri Hamachi... Explanation Buri Hamachi videos are set to a looped segment of a song from the game called "EXEC_HYMME_BATTLESPHERE/.#Saki extracting". A part of the song sounds like the singer is saying "buri hamachi", buri and hamachi both being words for the Japanese amberjack. Thus, Buri Hamachi videos involve a dancing character holding a fish. The stripping at the end comes from the "Purging" game mechanic, in which female characters strip to their underwear to power up their magic.
- Bad Dudes:
- Banjo-Kazooie:
- An unexpected jinjo appeared!◊ Explanation ASCII art of a jinjo that pops up in ASCII art threads or discussions about jinjos. Always unexpected, similar to the Spanish Inquisition.
- Batman: Arkham City:
- TWO GUNS, BITCH! Explanation Two-Face says this after Catwoman scratches him, causing his gun to fall outta his hand, and she taunts him by saying "No gun, Harv? Shame."
- BAM A HAM YUM / BAMHAM CITY Explanation Overly popular photoshops from the games's cover art with several letters removed. Brought to you by the letter /v/.
- Battle Garegga:
- Doing x will increase the rank.Explanation The game is notorious for its "rank" gimmick, as detailed here. This led to a lot of questions asking what raises the rank, and given that many things increase it (such as collecting powerups, firing your main weapon, and even just letting the game run) raise the rank and that there's no visible rank counter unless you mod it in, this led to some rank theories that were later proven false (such as so much as changing option formations), and some jokes about the game increasing rank for doing just about anything in-game.
- Battletoads:
- "Do you have Battletoads?" Explanation A common prank call to GameStop or other game retailers.
- "Is this Battletoads?" Explanation Used to feign confusion when discussing the game or others. Some claim that it's actually "Combat Amphibians," Doom³ or "GIMMICKS ARE DUMB, I SHOULD BE BANNED," the last one being an automatic filter to deter Battletoads spam.
- Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing:
- "YOU'RE WINNER!"Explanation In first-run copies of the game, crossing the finish line presented the player with a bizarre three-handled trophy and the Engrish phrase "YOU'RE WINNER". A later revision corrected this to "YOU WIN", but the three-handled trophy remained.
- Beyond: Two Souls:
- BioShock:
- FISTFULLALOITNIN! Explanation When you get your first Plasmid ability (Electro Bolt), Atlas remarks, "There's nothing like a fistful of lightning, now is there?"
- MUCHAAAAASSS GRACIASSSSS, SENOR!!!Explanation The ammo vending machine is just full of hammy Gratuitous Spanish.
- WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS OF VALYEWZ!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!Explanation The standard vending machine will scream this every time you use it.
- Would you kindly? Explanation A Trigger Phrase used throughout the game by Atlas to get you to do everything.
- Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
- "NO!" says the man in X, "it belongs to Y!" Explanation Both lines are from Andrew Ryan's opening speech.
- "Goddamn Sploicers!"Explanation Atlas' (fake) Irish accent is a target for mockery by fans.
- You don't fuck Fontaine, Fontaine fucks you!
- BioShock Infinite:
- "BOOKER, CATCH!"Explanation Elizabeth helps you in combat situations by tossing you ammo, health, or salts (mana). She'll yell this line to get your attention once she's found something, and given the amount of combat, you'll be hearing it often. Quite often, fans depict Booker getting hit in the face by whatever she threw at him.
- "X, will X, have X-ed."Explanation The Luteces will repeat the various tenses of a word to show how arbitrary tense is according to their infinite Alternate Universe worldview.
- "The bird?" "Or the cage?"Explanation The Luteces gift one of two necklace brooches to Elizabeth at one point, and you have to pick which one.
- WAIT A MINUTE, THAT CARD!
- On a non-verbal example, Booker eating food he finds in trash cans.Explanation It's not just the standard video game trope; once Elizabeth is with you, one can only imagine the weird impression she's getting from her rescuer.
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night:
- "Kill those murderers dead!" Explanation Lindsay is an NPC who has become vengeful after watching her friends and family killed in a demonic invasion. She tasks Miriam with avenging her fallen loved ones. Her hammy delivery of this line, its grammatical redundancy, and the fact that she repeats it every time you accept a quest from her resulted in it gaining popularity.
- "EEEEEEEEEE!" (Long pause) "OOOOOOOOOOH!" Explanation "Outsider" knights (i.e. Blood Grinder Knight, Shield Outsider, Axe Outsider and G Axe Outsider) utter this cry (a.k.a. Voice #813 in the Sound Menu) when they're killed. It quickly gained traction among fans for its hilarity.
- Borderlands series:
- In Claptrap Web Series, we meet Steve. HEYOOO!!! *shot* Explanation He says that in response to Claptrap's "Hey Steve!", and shoots a fellow bandit down.
- 'YOU WOKE THE WRONG DOG! AWW YEAH!
- Borderlands:
- Nine Toes! (Also: he has three balls!) Explanation First actual 'Boss' you face in the game.
- ROAR FOR ME PANDORA!!! Explanation Moxxy. Need I say more?
- Borderlands 2: Butt Stallion:
- Early on in the game, Handsome Jack calls up the player to talk about a pony made of diamonds that he bought that he plans to name "Piss-for-brains" in honor of the player. He later settles upon the name "Butt Stallion". Comparisons to Rarity are inevitable.
- Butt Stallion later appears in the Assault on Dragons Keep DLC... at least what Tiny Tina thinks the pony looks like.
- "God, these pretzels suck!"Explanation One of Jack's more memorable lines is an offhand comment about the quality of the pretzels he is eating, completely out of nowhere and preceding the "Butt Stallion" exchange.
- Bungo to Alchemist: Who are you calling granny? I am quite obviously a man!Explanation Ozaki Kōyō's critical hit dialogue, which ends up making Granny his Fan Nickname
- California Speed:
SoMETIMES
God TaKes MOMMIES
aNd PuPPIES AWAY…
And SoMETIMES…
Just SoMETIMES…
I do.
Explanation This was a placeholder image for one of the billboards in the Nintendo 64 version that ended up not getting replaced. - Captain America and the Avengers:
- "You can't escape!" "YOU will be the one escaping!" Explanation A pre-fight conversation between the Avengers and Whirlwind.
- Captain Novolin, a diabetes-themed video game:
- The creepy doctors. Explanation In between levels, Captain Novolin thinks of his doctors, who inform him of various guidelines he must follow. Their Unintentional Uncanny Valley appearances pushed them straight into meme territory.
- "Hello, [name]! I have diabetes. Is there anything I need to know before [verb]ing this [noun]?" Explanation In the sixth level, the Captain encounters a ranger, and immediately tells him he has diabetes - a particularly narmy exchange.
- "Check you feet". Explanation Right after the above exchange, the game promptly tells you to check you feet for blisters and sores.
- Catherine
- "X has appeared. It's a killer. Do not die." Explanation The Boss Warning Siren.
- "LOVE IS OVER" Explanation The Game Over screen.
- "Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge." Explanation Blocks can be held up by the edges of other blocks. When a falling block is caught in this way, the announcer calls out "Edge."
- "Undo. Undo. Undo. Undo." Explanation On Easy and Normal modes, the player can undo their last action, e.g. if the player gets stuck. Again, the announcer calls out every instance of this action.
- cat planet:
- GameStop turning◊ Chrono Trigger into Napoleon Dynamite.
- Chzo Mythos: I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPAAACE!! Explanation The Narmtastic Motive Rant in 7 Days a Skeptic.
- Civilization:
- Nuclear Gandhi. Explanation Players of the original Civ got a chuckle out of a noted pacifist using the same "Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!" threats as other leaders, so that in later titles his leader AI was given a fondness for nukes. This wasn't helped by the rumor that Gandhi's original AI was subject to an overflow glitch that would cause his Aggression rating to "fall" from 1 to 255, which Sid Meier himself had to try to dispell.
- Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Explanation This threat was tacked onto dialogues (even friendly ones) in I and II when a civilization had the capacity to build nukes. Especially memetic and entertaining when it's the aforementioned Gandhi◊.
- Spearman vs. Tank. Explanation Sometimes obsolete units get lucky with the RNG. Sometimes they get really lucky, as in the classic example of spearmen (one of the earliest, weakest units) defeating modern-era tanks.
- Pledge to protect. Explanation One of the options for diplomacy with City-states is the option to pledge to protect them. Outside of the series, the screencap of this option on the diplomacy menu has been used on anything that is deemed worth protecting, such as cute characters.
- Command & Conquer:
- Any game with Content Warnings will inevitably have important parts of said warning edited out to create a Captain Obvious statement. For example, “This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore” becomes “This game contains scenes”.
- Contra:
- The original game's US release coincided with the Iran-Contra affair, so jokes linking the two began to proliferate immediately. Konami locally retitled the following two games Super C and Operation C, perhaps worrying that the original title would be Overshadowed by Controversy. If anything, the opposite seems to have happened, if Our Dumb World is any guide, since its entry on the country of Nicaragua is almost entirely about Contra (the NES version, that is).
- Cory in the House is the greatest DS game of all time.Explanation The infamous video game from the TV series Cory in the House was a prime example of why licensed games often suck, but the Internet collectively decided to praise it and flooded Metacritic with high scores, making it the highest rated DS game on their site. It's still common for debates about "the greatest game ever" to include a link to Cory.
- Cory, you a busta. Explanation A truly ludicrous dialogue exchange from the game, with Cory deciding to "shoot some 3 point hoops to bring in the heat!" and Sophie responding as seen above. The phrase "Cory, you a busta" quickly reached meme status.
- "...but can it run Crysis?"Explanation For many years, Crysis was the go-to benchmark for graphical fidelity in PC gaming. Even some of the most high-end computers of the time would have trouble running the game at a steady framerate with all graphic settings maxed out.
- Cybermorph:
- "Where did you learn to fly?" Explanation Used repeatedly by the floating head AI Skylar when your spaceship bumps into a mountain. Popularized by The Angry Video Game Nerd.
- Cytus:
- 1 Good Explanation Getting 1 Good is a source of frustration for many players. Except in this case, getting 1 Good doesn't mean a broken combo, it means coming frustratingly close to the Million Master rank. The Cytus 1 Good bot is dedicated to all of those frustrating 1 Good runs.
- Cytus is awesome! I got rank (rank) on (song)/(difficulty) and scored (points)! Explanation When tweeting your score to Twitter from the game's built-in tweet feature, it will post a tweet in this format using whatever account you have linked up.
- SHOTA4EVER Explanation In Chapter R, the Retro chapter, each song has an alternate name, shown when it is the next or previous song available for selection. When arranged in order, the first letter of each alternate name spells out [[cytus.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_R?file=SHOTA 4 EVER.jpg "SHOTA 4 EVER"]], a nod to musician and Rayark staff member ICE being a fan of shotacon media.
- Dark Seed II:
- What was your relationship with Rita? Explanation Retsupurae's riff on the second game inspired a million of these comments.
- "Hey, you missed, pal!" Explanation Spoken by the man running the ring toss game at the carnival whenever Mike Dawson fails the ring toss. Often used to emphasize how much of a loser Mike Dawson is.
- Here, Mike. This will explain everything. *SPLORTCH* Explanation During the end game, Mike's mother's head explodes with no forewarning... and all shock value from this is ruined by a sound effect best described as "similar to a quack."
- Daytona USA:
- "DAYTONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Let's Go Away!" Explanation Lyrics from the opening theme to the original Daytona USA.
- "ROLLING STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART~!" Explanation Sung at the start of the beginner course theme, "The King of Speed." Has been made into a couple of memes over time, including this one by the creators of Super Best Friends Play
- DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power
- Persona 6Explanation When the game was revealed in the February 17, 2021 Nintendo Direct, people were quick to joke that it was the next Persona game based on its gameplay, graphics, and teenage protagonists.
- Dead Island
- The trailer for the game was CG film quality footage of a family's doomed fight against zombies. Between the Tear Jerker scenes and music it went viral with upwards of one million hits in the first day and homages, parodies and reaction videos quickly followed.
- Demon's Souls:
- I'm in trouble! Please recommend this message! Explanation One of the pre-determined "help" messages that can be left behind by players.
- Sticky White Stuff Explanation The English version's... odd name for a substance that can be used to enchant weapons.
- YOU DIED Explanation Seen with alarming frequency due to the game's notorious level of difficulty. The same "YOU DIED" message would go on to appear in Dark Souls.
- Destiny
- That wizard came from the moon. Explanation A line spoken by Peter Dinklage completely phoning it in. Bungie even put it on a T-shirt.
- Where is Xur? Explanation The Exotic merchant, Xur, spawns randomly in the game's world every Friday, then disappears on Monday. The question, often asked by beginner players, led to the creation of a website that gives Xur's location and inventory for a given week, and several riffs on the question, like "Everyone asks where is Xur, nobody asks how is Xur".
- ONE. FUCKING. GUARDIAN. Explanation The trailer for Season of the Chosen featured the Cabal leader Caiatl demanding Commander Zavala to "ally" with her, with Zavala and Osiris not buying it. Then, someone wrote a hilarious response to it on Reddit, and Zavala's voice actor Lance Reddick posted a video of himself reading it.
- BABY FALLEN Explanation The trailer for Season of the Splicer in Destiny 2 featured a shot of an Eliksni carrying three swaddled baby Eliksni. People went crazy because of the Ugly Cute factor, comparing the Baby Fallen to Grogu from The Mandalorian.
- You'll be a gunExplanation After Eris Morn used Oryx's heart to craft the Exotic rifle Touch of Malice and the worm god Xol turned itself into the Exotic sniper rifle Whisper of the Worm, the players noticed the tendency and, apart from including it in the "One. Fucking. Guardian." meme, started using it on its own. As expected, in The Witch Queen DLC, Savathun's worm is used to craft the Exotic grenade launcher Parasite.
- Detroit: Become Human
- "28 stab wounds!!" Explanation A line shouted by the usually stoic Connor while trying to get a deviant android to confess to murder.
- Diablo:
- Dies Irae
- Angry DayExplanation Crunchyroll once translated the Latin wrong when they released an announcement regarding the series and the fans had a field day over this.
- In extension, "Sakurai Hotaru"Explanation A misreading of Kei's name
- "You need to read Faust and Friedrich Nietzsche to understand Dies irae more than the surface level!"Explanation This visual novel features a lot of references and Genius Bonus to many works of literature and mythology, but especially Faust and Nietzsche. Understanding of those works aren't exactly required, but a little knowledge helps one to enjoy this work more.
- Battle OperaExplanation The Visual Novel is widely known for its opera theme and insane battles,espiacally the last two routes, which both featured several Crowning moments of awesome and god-like action across the entire cosmos.
- Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge: "Game Over! Goodbye, [Hero] — FOREVER! Ha ha ha ha ha haa!" Explanation On the Game Over screen, Nasira gloats, "Game Over! Goodbye, Aladdin — FOREVER! Ha ha ha ha ha haa!" People have took to the comments section on YouTube posting this line as if it is quoted by other villains to their opposing heroes e.g. Aku: Game Over! Goodbye, Samurai Jack — FOREVER! Ha ha ha ha ha haa!
- Double Dragon:
- "Bimmy and Jimmy" Explanation "Bimmy" is a typo that appears in the NES version of Double Dragon III in the opening prologue of the 2-Player mode. Curiously, the 1-Player mode spells "Billy" correctly, since it loads a different string of text. Popularized by The Angry Video Game Nerd.
- Dragon Ball FighterZ:
- "Fursuits are like weighted clothing." Explanation One of the top competitive Dragon Ball FighterZ players is Dominique "SonicFox" McLean, a very open member of the Furry Fandom who has become famous for showing up at tournaments in his fursuit (and even, in some cases, competing in it). When he struggled during some of the early matches in EVO 2018, only to win the tournament after taking off the suit, the comparisons were inevitable.
- Dragon Quest
- Meme draws near! Command?Explanation Text at the start of each battle in the first game
- "But thou must."Explanation Also in the first game, selecting "no" when asked by Gwaelin to take her back to Tantegel or if the player loves her
- "But thou must." Explanation She will repeat this until the player chooses "yes"
- DARGON Quest IV Explanation When Dragon Quest IV was first released on the iTunes App Store, the title was misspelled as "DARGON QUEST IV".
- Dragster:
- Starting in second gear to get a score of 5.51. Explanation Todd Rogers was known for being one of the top retro gamers, though attracted controversy due to his top scores being a little too good. His Dragster score was infamous for his claims of starting in second gear and having a top time of 5.51. Neither of these have been replicated by anyone else (Activision didn't think a score higher than 5.54 was even possible, but accepted Rogers's claim), and no videos of the legendary run are known to exist. The legitimacy of the score was debated for decades, not helped by 5.57 being the top score anyone else could get and Rogers being unable to replicate his run live, until tests gave evidence that both starting in second gear and a getting score better than 5.57 were impossible, culminating in Rogers losing all of his records on website Twin Galaxies, being permanently banned, and stripped of his Guinness World Records in 2018. While Rogers himself became a minor meme afterwards with some blatantly bogus speedruns in his name being posted online, Dragster is almost exclusively associated with Todd Rogers as his most famous "record."
- Dungeon Fighter Online:
- YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY! Explanation Said by the masked shopkeepers who appear in every town.
- Duke Nukem:
- Duke Nukem Forever:
- "Always bet on the Duke!"Explanation The game's tagline.
- Release date: When it's done.Explanation The game itself counts as a Running Gag meme, due to the fact that it took all but forever for the game to be released.
- "Duke Nukem, Forever Delayed" Explanation When it was announced that the game would be delayed after finally getting a solid, firm release date, the fans immediately jumped on this, resulting in the aforementioned Incredibly Lame Pun.
- Conveniently, "Duke Nukem" sounds like "do que nunca" - Portuguese for "than never". From this, the "antes tarde Duke Nukem"note Alternately, "mais vale tarde Duke Nukem"(a pun on "better late than never") joke is created.
- Dynasty Warriors
- "YOU FLAMING IDIOTS!!!" Explanation From DW3, uttered by Zhang Bao. Thank you, terrible English dubbing.
- "Don't pursue Lu Bu!" Explanation Also from DW3, a warning from Yuan Shao at the Battle at Hu Lao Gate. Despite being a Bonus Boss for the second story stage, Lu Bu is the most powerful character in the entire game. This has generally held up through the games' numbered iterations to the point that if you kill him in DW7, you get the achievement "Okay, you can pursue Lu Bu." In later games in the series, Cao Cao utters this line instead of Yuan Shao.
- "In death, my soul will be my brethren!" [sic] Explanation From Guan Yu's death scene in 3 (again!), Guan Yu forgets a certain preposition between the words "be" and "my". Hint: it's not on, in, to, by, for, at, of, from, as...
- "BENEVOLENCE!" Explanation As seen in 7, the Shu faction has an unhealthy fondness with the word "benevolence".
- "IMBECILE!" Explanation Not unlike above, seen in 8, the Jin dynasty seems to think everyone against them is an imbecile.
- E3 2010:
- Skittles and the dancing guy. Explanation A meme generated from a hilariously bad and cheesy presentation by Microsoft when revealing the Kinect. When the company demoed a Kinect game that lets the player interact with cute baby animals, they had a little girl play the game by interacting with a baby tiger and acted like as if she really was touching and being touched by the animal that she called Skittles. The "dancing guy" was an over enthusiastic man that was a bit too into the game he was demoing, Dance Central.
- Electronic Arts:
- Pride and accomplishment. Explanation On Reddit, EA tried to defend the excessive grind behind rewards in Star Wars Battlefront II, which could be circumvented by purchasing Loot Boxes, by claiming they were there to give players a sense of "pride and accomplishment". People weren't impressed, and the comment became the most downvoted comment in Reddit history (for comparison, the second most downvoted has about 89,000 downvotes and actively asks users to downvote it for ironic amusement, this one has about 680,000 and earned all those downvotes entirely on its own lack of merit), now holding a Guiness world record.
- Surprise Mechanics Explanation During a UK parliament panel, EA tried to defend themselves by claiming their games use "surprise mechanics", not lootboxes. People mocked this response by calling unethical or even criminal activities "surprise x".
- It's the same game! Explanation Games of EA Sports, more commonly FIFA, has been mocked for being mostly the same game every year since 2018, only the changes being cosmetic as well as greater microtransactions every subsequent year. This is especially prevalent with the Switch releases of the FIFA series (labelled as the "Legacy Edition" below FIFA XX for the Switch games), noting that every game since the first game's release on the Switch is literally the same game repackaged with updated rosters.
- Elemental 3 and similar fangames:
- its time to stop Explanation An element which is used by players to end chains of elements being combined with themselves. Due to this, the its time to stop element has become the easiest element to obtain, being obtainable by combining many elements with themselves. Despite this, other people still get around this by combining it with the previous element in the chain. This may as well be the game's most iconic element.
- Some fangames have their own variations of the its time to stop element. Examples include Elemental on Discord's You Should Stop Now and Loop (the latter of which redirects to itself), and Elemental Reborn's Everything Ends Here.
- It is not uncommon for element chains to go astral, starting with planets, then solar systems, galaxies, universes, multiverses, and the chain just goes on and on to various forms of -verses.
- Epic Mickey: KILL THE MOUSE TAKE HIS HOUSE KILL THE MOUSE TAKE HIS HOUSE Explanation Back when the first details of the game were released, it appeared as if Oswald (Mickey's jealous half-brother) was going to be the villain. 4chan picked up the ball and turned Ozzie into a funky Disney mix of Liquid Snake and Alma, with him constantly dripping ink/blood. The meme is his Madness Mantra, which appears to be derived from House of Mouse.
- Etrian Odyssey:, F.O.E.! Explanation IOSYS made a famous music video parodying the Nintendo Hard nature of the game and the "Fucking Overpowered Enemies" contained within.
- Eversion:
- READY! TO DIE
- BEHIND YOU Explanation The usual "READY!" screen upon (re)starting a level is replaced at random with various ominous messages in the later levels, to chilling effect.
- Façade (2005): Trip hates melons. Explanation The game treats any use of the word "melons" as a reference to breasts, resulting in a game over as the player gets kicked out of the house.
- Far Cry 3: "BLITZKRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG!" Explanation Sam's warcry and preferred battle tactic is swiftly becoming one due to it being hilariously over the top and appropriate for a variety of situations.
- Faxanadu:
- This is not enough golds. Explanation Golds (with the trailing "s") is the unit of currency in Faxanadu's world.
- Feral:
- Corn. Explanation In late 2021, several users reacted to WildWorks announcing the NFT blockchain-based game Cinder (which reuses Fer.al's assets) by sending CEO Clark Stacey pictures of corn and were subsequently blocked by him. The game's Discord community latched onto the sheer ridiculousness of a CEO blocking people over corn cobs and have taken to using corn imagery to poke fun at Stacey.
- Forza:
- "Built from the ground up."Explanation Turn 10 Studios, the main developer of Forza Motorsport games since the 2005 original, claimed that the first new Motorsport game since 2017's FM7, the 2023 reboot of Forza Motorsport, would be made from the ground up. This statement caught flak when people noticed that despite FM2023 being made for the PC and Xbox Series X|S, some of the reboot's car models were recycled from the Xbox 360 entries, something that the past games from the Xbox One era were also guilty of, including the Forza Horizon spin-off series, which led to people accusing Turn 10 of lying to their audience.
- Frog Fractions:
- "Is this Frog Fractions 2?" Explanation Long before it was proven that Frog Fractions 2 was indeed real, its dubious existence prompted people to ask this of any game that appeared to be too bizarre for words in hopes that it might secretly have been Frog Fractions 2.
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel:
- "Get in the Soul Cannon, Shinji! It's the only way to defeat the Angels!"
- Be honest: if you're interested in this game, you yourself have probably made jokes about which of the kids you'd like to sacrifice. As for specific trends:
- Many have joked about sacrificing Boron to the Soul Cannon, using the logic that his fat will deal even more damage to the Berman tanks. It got to the point where Yoann himself started calling on people to stop sacrificing him.
- And even before the game came out, those who didn't joke about powering the Soul Cannon with Boron's bio-energy instead joked about using Mei's instead, for no reason besides even crazier Black Comedy. On the other hand, at least one person has proposed doing the opposite: killing everyone except Mei to leave her to suffer in loneliness. We'll let you form your own opinions on which one of these is worse.
- Both the above memes became even more egregious when CyberConnect2 announced the most common sacrifices to the Soul Cannon during their first anniversary stream on the game: Boron for Japanese players, and Mei for North American players.
- On the flip side, veteran fans have joked about keeping Socks alive, and by extension, him being the only character to get laid, as he's the canonical ancestor to Merveille and Red.
- "I'm the oldest!"Explanation People were quick to catch on to how often Malt would say this, treating it as his Catchphrase and go-to response for whenever anything happens. It's not helped that Comedies of Steel exaggerated this trait for laughs.
- Mr. Matsuyama's fetishExplanation When Yoko Taro was brought on to play Fuga, he spent a good chunk of the beginning implying that the reason why they went with children as the main characters was so Hiroshi Matsuyama could satisfy his furry lolicon fetish.
- afugaExplanation A weird way of saying Fuga whenever major news about the game gets announced, be it new episodes for Comedies of Steel, manga chapters, or full game updates.
- "MELT… THAT… CHILD!"Explanation A joke that originated from one of Sean Chiplock's Iron Man runs, in which he plays up the use of the Soul Cannon like a game show. Unsurprisingly, the results are hysterical.
- The ASS rankingExplanation Another running gag from Sean Chiplock's streams of the game, where the post-battle Gameplay Grading reads "ASS" for getting an A in turns taken, an S in damage taken, and an S in use of techniques.
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2:
- Malt's new jaded and aggressive personality in contrast to the idealistic Humble Hero of the last game became a meme in and of itself ever since the game's announcement.
- "Okay, get in!"Explanation The Soul Cannon was re-done so that when the Exo-Taranis takes a certain amount of damage, the AI Hax will abduct a child to use as fuel for the fatal weapon after enough turns have passed. Comparisons to the memetic coffin scene from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squidward The Unfriendly Ghost" have been made, with Hax and Jeanne's aggressive side taking SpongeBob and Patrick's places.
- "In you go, little one."Explanation An alternative line to the above, this time using what Yoko Taro (yes, that Yoko Taro) said when he sacrificed Mei during his Chapter 1 demo of the first game, complete with Dissonant Serenity.
- "You're not gonna shoot a puppy, are ya, Hax?" "Yeah, in the face, why?"Explanation Again, some variations of this exchange showed up following the reveal of the new Soul Cannon. The person being asked this is typically either Hax or the devs at CyberConnect2 themselves.
- "Sparkle on! It's Jin Tuesday! Keep on shining!"Explanation An edit of Jin's updated design with a modified version of the "Sparkle Wednesday" meme involving Jerma985 that somehow caught attention within the Little Tail Bronx fandom.
- "Weh!"Explanation A line frequently said by characters like Malt throughout, possibly meant to be interpreted as "oui". Got popular thanks to Sean Chiplock's streams of this game.
- Fuga foreheadsExplanation Britz, Vanilla, and Socks have ridiculously big forehead spaces, leading to jokes about people playing tic-tac-toe on them.
- Gauntlet:
- "Wizard Needs Food Badly!"Explanation A quote said by the announcer when you start to run low on health.
- "Red Warrior shot the potion."Explanation The same announcer says this when you accidentally shoot a potion, which produces a lesser effect than picking one up and using it.
- Ghostbusters (NES):
- God of War:
- Kratos falling off the tallest mountain of Greece in the opening cutscene of the first game, especially especially when paired with the chorus to "Dream On" by Aerosmith.
- Kratos plays the lottery and loses. ("Rage of Sparta" begins to play in the background) Explanation Rage of Sparta is the music track that generally plays whenever Kratos kills one of the gods in the third game. People have started to apply it to whenever Kratos gets pissed enough to kill something.
- "BOY" Explanation Kratos, voiced by Christopher Judge, seems to always refer to his own son, Atreus, as "boy" and never by name. He says this a lot.
- Gran Turismo:
- Pink VitzExplanation A pink-colored variant of the Toyota Vitz/Yaris that can be won as a prize car from several championships (such as the FF Challenge in the Beginner League) in Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, which is widely regarded as a joke car. A Youtuber by the name of rynogt4 managed to win three pink Vitzes (and one cyan Vitz) during his playthrough of GT3, and he reacted in disgust when he saw the car's color for the first time.
- GT 2000/Yellow Evo VExplanation Youtuber BK4 made a video showing the intro to Gran Turismo 2000, the prototype of what would eventually become GT3 and playing its theme song, "Mirage" by Daiki Kasho, at a deafeningly loud volume. This meme is often accompanied by a distorted image of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V, the only playable car in GT2000, in yellow color.
- The Pace CarExplanation This refers to the pace car based on the Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 that first debuted in Gran Turismo Concept, but became well-known in Gran Turismo 4 thanks to the IA-15 licence test, which involves driving a full lap around the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a Mercedes-Benz 190E Evo II. Said test is considered to be one of the hardest licence tests in the game and the entire series.
- He's there!/He's not there!Explanation A meme referring to the Rome Circuit race in the Historic Car Cup in Gran Turismo 2, which has a chance of spawning the Ford GT40 as an opponent. The AI opponent driving the GT40 is infamous for cheating, as the horsepower limit in the race is 295 bhp, but the GT40, a road-legal version of the LeMans racing car, has 305 bhp, exceeding the limit.
- Nike ONE 2022Explanation A car designed as a collaboration between Nike and Polyphony Digital which appeared in Gran Turismo 4 as a prize for completing the International "B" licence tests, showcasing what the cars might look like in the year 2022. The Nike ONE didn't make a return, even after the year 2022 had passed.
- Halo: I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything. Explanation Originating from a post on the 4chan forums. It's an absurdly popular snowclone due to its highly exploitable nature, applied to absolutely everything. In fact, it's so exploitable that we had to close our "Pretty Cool Guy" page before it overran the Internet.
- Hatoful Boyfriend:
- Hatoful Boyfriend is The Medic's favorite game. Explanation In "Meet the Medic", he's shown to keep pigeons which are just as enthusiastic about gore as he is.
- Hatoful Boyfriend is Nikola Tesla's favorite game. Explanation Tesla wrote love letters for a pigeon that roosted near his flat.
- For a while, due to a translation error accidentally saying Dr. Shuu had hands, there was a minor meme in which Shuu would be drawn or photomanipulated as a bird with human arms and hands sticking out of his body.
- Hatred:
- My name is not important. Explanation The first line in one of the game's trailers, which led to the Fan Nickname "Not Important".
- Heavy Rain:
- "PRESS X TO JASON" Explanation When Ethan's son gets lost in a crowd, pressing the X button causes him to shout "JASON!" over and over. Yelling this at a convention leads to an echo effect of repeated "JASON!"s.
- Nahman, er, Nommin', um, NOMNOM, no, Norman Jayden's accent on his own name is becoming this and a source of several Fan Nicknames.
- FUCKING ASSHOLE!
- HELLSINKER:
- AN AWESOME PRAYER IS CONFLICT WITH US — KEEP YOUR DIGNITY Explanation The Boss Warning Siren.
- YOU GOT INSANITY Explanation An excerpt from the Non-Standard Game Over resulting from timing out the Segment 7 boss with only one life left. The full text reads: "SPIRIT OVERLOAD. YOU GOT INSANITY. YOU MUST RESHAPE ONESELF FOR ONCOMING ASPIRANTS." The boss's final attack involves transferring its memories to the player character, driving them insane (with the heavy implication that the player is transformed into a Prayer themselves).
- The game's barely-comprehensible plot and extensive use of proprietary terminology have become memes in and of themselves.
- Hitman: Allan please add detail◊ Explanation An infamous detail for a crate holster in Hitman: Blood Money, presumably a note to one of the programmers to add details before release. Spun off into its own meme to refer to unfinished moments in other video games.
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- The following line of dialogue from Kung Fury has been memetically used to describe the plot of the game:
"What time is this?"
"It's the viking age."
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- The Idolmaster:
- 72 Explanation Chihaya Kisaragi, being the flattest member of the 765 Pro idols, had her bust size turn into a meme rather quickly. Exacerbated when she turned out to be the only idol who didn't grow at all by iM@S2.
- Nonowa Explanation Haruka Amami has been noted to have a peculiar expression whenever she is in thought, with her eyes and mouth resembling the Japanese characters ののワ (nonowa). This led to a shift-jis art with said characters representing her face, which eventually evolved into a Super-Deformed caricature of her. This became an Ascended Meme in the anime, where one of Yayoi's siblings plays with a Nonowa doll.
- Te Te Te Explanation Remixes of all different sorts are done with "Town", a BGM song from the game.
- Mecha Chihaya Explanation Inspired by Chihaya's extremely staccato performace of "Ohayou! Asagohan".
- LOADINGU LOADINGU! Explanation Mami Futami's loading screen for the second game is memetic for how grating she is during it, as well as the lyrics she sings being Lampshade Hanging over the point of loading screens.
- Anime girl hiding from a Terminator Explanation An image of Nono Morikubo from THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls hiding behind a desk from a Terminator has become a popular object labeling template.
- BE MY BABY explanation Nana and Shin are often associated with the 1989 song "BE MY BABY" by Complex, all thanks to this weird video which depicts both members of the band in the music video overlaid with respective faces of SugarMin members (Shin for Tomoyasu Hotei, Nana for Koji Kikkawa).
- *Both faces thrown away* A~HUHUN
- ちゃんみおっぱい explanation Romanized as "Chan-Mi-oppai", this was tagged by fan artists who often drew Mio as a (sometimes overly) buxom girl, though several of her official artwork◊ has them.
- #おっぱい大成功高校生美玲ちゃん explanation Translated as "Successful Busty High Schooler Mirei", this Twitter hashtag is often used on the artist's drawing of a grown-up Mirei as a high schooler...but with a bustier figure.
- "This is a message from Snake... I'm here to remind everyone to vote for Natalia for this year's Cinderella election. Huh, she's pretty good. Snake out." explanation A Cameo commission from an overseas NataliaP for David Hayter, the original English voice actor for Solid Snake, to tell people to vote for Natalia in the 8th election lead to an outpouring of support from Japanese Metal Gear fans and Metal Gear related fanart and memes of Natalia. The original video on Twitter was taken down, but then here's another overseas NataliaP edit for the commisioned line, in the style of Metal Gear Solid's codec calls.
- "Let's do it for Natalia! Campbell out." explanation The same NataliaPs mentioned above did the same for Colonel Campbell's voice actor, Paul Eiding, right after the preeliminary results for the 8th election, in which Natalia placed 9th in overall ranking and 3rd in Passion ranking.
- "Hey, that's Natalia! She's a Brazillian idol that's really talented at belly-dancing!" explanation ... and so did for Otacon's voice actor, Christopher Randolph, a week later.
- Incoming meme votes.explanation The fanbase seems to be so interested on voting towards a character that for some reason has a currently memetic presence in the net or something to do with Goroawase Numbers, to the point of that voting gauntlet is often lopsided towards x character's favor, resulting them be able to climb to either top 10 or winning the election entirely. Combined with the fact that most of the highly voted idols (or even the ones who won) will suddenly drop ranks to even UNRANKED (not reaching the top 50) gives the impression that most of these idol voters were only voting said idol for the meme. Once said idol finally got into the top 10 or even won the election, they will no longer be voted by it's "fans" and left to obscurity. Nana (won the 7th election because of her name can also means the number "seven") and Syuko (Won the 4th election because of her losing her previous poll against Arisu in the Anniversary Voice Idol election) were the well-known examples of this.
- Mio Honda's Step! Music Video/Mio Honda War Crimes.Explanation A video animation tweet of Mio Honda dancing in the chorus of "Step!" (nicknamed "Mio Honda Fried Chicken Video" because of the word fried chicken shown by the second half of the video) was created by twitter user @hemoglosso during the heat of the second cour of the 2019 Cinderella Girls Yearly Election, supporting Mio. The video was reuploaded to iFunny.com by the user TazMazy and then was constantly republished by their spare account LinusTechTipsFanPage (named after Linus Tech Tips) to the point of spam. Starting approximately on October 10th, 2019, multiple iFunny users posted memes featuring the character, with other users posting memes expressing frustration with the post repeatedly appearing in their feeds, often associating her as an unstoppable empress who bends people's will by spamming promotional videos. Becomes eerily coincidental as she was just crowned as the eight Cinderella Girl. Later on February 2020, YouTube user AutisticYui cropped animation frames from the fried chicken video to depict Mio running through Team Fortress 2's 2fort, spawning a surge of similar video edits in Western internet corners of Mio marching in various situations while "Step!" blares in the background, with certain war scene edits making YouTube commentators brand her as a dangerous war criminal. That surge led @hemoglosso to suffer a Creator Backlash by the end of March 2020 over their animation being spread and repurposed far beyond their authorship and its original intent as a Cinderella Girl Election campaign by Western meme culture into Black Comedy videos (see Memetic Badass and Memetic Psychopath above).
- need Tomboy.Explanation Related to the fried chicken video above, the Mio Honda fried chicken video played behind a captcha re-enacting the same word played over a wojak struggling in frustration. Associating Mio as being a tomboy has become a common occurrence within the fandom, even though she's more of a Genki Girl than an outright tomboy herself
- Taberungo no UtaExplanation A song featuring Akari Tsujino which became incredibly popular with video makers on Nico Nico Douga despite being very simplistic. The resulting surge in Akari's popularity led to her winning the Voice Audition later that year.
- "Hey you … Yeah you Queen … You’re gonna make it!" Explanation A macro image of Sachiko Koshimizu saying "Hey you, yeah you king. You're gonna make it!" starts gaining a massive popularity thanks to Elon Musk tweeting the image on his feed. So much so that the stock numbers for Bandai Namco (Holdings) increases by 4% because of it.
- This is why Miura will never finish Berserk Explanation A recurring meme among the Berserk fandom to explain the long waits between chapters was that mangaka Kentaro Miura was busy playing The iDOLM@STER.
- Iji: "You promised me a pony... With missiles!" Explanation This is one of the more infamous lines said by Iji while under the effects of a secret unlockable, the Scrambler, which scrambles game dialogue and replaces it with either random nonsense or hilarity.
- I. M. Meen:
- Inazuma Eleven:
- SAKKA YAROUZE! Explanation The internet's view of everything that comes out of Endou's mouth. He is a soccer freak (which is what many characters call him and can be considered a meme itself).
- WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE GOAL NETS MADE OFF? (or anything similar) Explanation The goal nets are always intact, no matter how many times they're hit by powerful shoots. In the anime, they only broke three times in over 200 episodes.
- FIRE LEMONADE Explanation Goujin's misnaming of Fire Tornado.
- Judgement Silversword and its spinoff Cardinal Sins:
- Katamari Damacy:
- God's a perv. Explanation The King of All Cosmos at one point says Russia is big, "but it's not as big as Our royal thing".
- "We are moved to tears by the size of this thing." Explanation If you make an especially large Katamari, the King will commend you for your *ahem* "hard" work.
- Killer Instinct:
- Konami:
- Konmai Quality Explanation A term used for instances of blatant bugs or other errors in Konami games. Often used for Konami's BEMANI games, since the typo originated there.
- #FucKonami Explanation After the departure of Hideo Kojima from Konami as well as the nixing of Silent Hills, fans have jokingly stated that Konami's business strategies for 2015 amount to "fuck our biggest IPs and most of all, fuck you."
- Konami doesn't make games anymore. Explanation Due to the above actions of Konami, longtime fans are concerned that Konami no longer produces video games. They still do, including Quiz Magic Academy and the aforementioned BEMANI games, but because those and Konami's other active titles are Asia-only arcade games, Western (especially American or people from countries when arcades are a dying breed) fans either ignore them or don't know that they exist.
- Klonoa:
- WAHOO! Explanation Outside his own name, this is pretty much the only word he says that isn't spoken in his "unique" language.
- RUPURUDU! Explanation Typically translated as "Let's go!". Klonoa sometimes says this when he's about go on his next adventure.
- "Klo'a" Explanation What his name sounds like in his language whenever it's spoken.
- "Joke" Explanation Joka's name sounds like this when it's spoken.
- The entirety of "Stepping Wind" ("Wahoo Stomp" in the U.S. release), a vocal song from Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil can be considered this. It's a rock song done entirely in "Phantomilian" (although a remixed version with Japanese lyrics also exists).
- Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords:
- Apathy is death. Explanation The infamous neutral option ("I'll just stand back and watch") in the Kreia-vs.-party confrontation in the Korriban tomb. Kreia scolds you, followed by she (and several party members) reciting the line, and then the entire party attacking you.
- You will not erode Sion's will. [You have eroded Sion's will.] Explanation The final confrontation with Darth Sion requires you to make him doubt himself and the power of the dark side, since his connection to it makes him effectively immortal. Through some unfortunate word choice, he will call you out on this and claim you're wasting your breath the first time you try, right before the game tells you with very nearly the exact same wording that you actually did make some headway.
- L.A. Noire. For a game with so much dialogue, it's no surprise that something would mutate sooner or later:
- "Yeah, let's change the subject, YOU GOY MOTHERFUCKER! How about baseball?!" Explanation This is uttered by the main suspect in your very first interrogation, a tutorial. So prepare to hear this a lot.
- "You disappoint me, Phelps. *Beat* GET BACK IN THERE AND RAISE SOME LUMPS BOY! I need a confession!" Explanation Da Chief contributing to the But Thou Must!-factor of the aforementioned tutorial.
- "OVER THE MOON BOYS!" Explanation Da Chief is very pleased with your work.
- "Circumstantial." Explanation Whenever Phelps gets to inspect a highly suspicious piece of junk on a crime scene. Which is often.
- "You stomped her! You stomped her because she was a drunken whore and she treated you like shit!" Explanation That one time when Phelps interrogates the husband of a murdered woman, get the option to call him on a possible lie, and Phelps simply loses his shit out of the blue. And he'd be wrong, in any case.
- "Looks like I was mistaken."/"Sorry. Sometimes you have to shake the tree to see what falls out." Explanation When you have Phelps pussy out of his decision.
- The Last of Us:
- You know, Ellie, we really are The Last Of Us Explanation This thankfully isn't an actual line in the game. It's instead a popular meme making fun of awkward and shoehorned-in Title Drops in gaming, which inspired versions◊ made for◊ other games.
- The Legend of Dragoon:
- SHUT UP. TALKING MAKES YOU DIE.explanation Haschel's... "comforting" words to his dying pupil Gehrich.
- Limbo:
- BEAR TRAP! Explanation From the first major section of the game, the Forest. Finding one is usually a player's first death in the entire game.
- Limbo of the Lost developed a photoshop following from other gamers who, amused by its brazenness in overusing literal Copy-and-Paste Environments, started coming up with ways to paste the hero in other games.
- Also the Narmworthy "King of Limboooo!" Explanation The song that plays if you make it to the end.
- LittleBigPlanet:
- Swoop is OP Explanation During the E3 2014 stage demo for this game, the players had trouble getting past certain parts. This occasionally led to the person playing Swoop flying in, picking them up, and flying the other character up to where they needed to be. This led to fear that Swoop would become a Game-Breaker by being able to bypass obstacles, and thusly this meme was created.
- "Did you know you can scamper up walls?", "Aw nuts, a plot twist!" "The elevator ain't gonna move until we refill the cup with milkshake." "This music's pretty catchy, huh?" explanations To anyone whose played the game, a lot of what Marlon Random says is a meme. These are some of the highlights. This explains it pretty well. (And yes, that is an edited version of a story level.)
- Love Live! School idol festival:
- I finished this song with all Perfects and I still got a C, fuck this shit. Explanation Rhythm Game veterans are often shocked when they try School Idol Festival, manage to get all Perfects on a song, yet still get an awful score because of the game's "better idols = better score" scoring system, as a way of encouraging players to dump money into Love Gems so they can have more opportunities to get Super Rare and Ultra Rare idols and have more LP to have more chances to level up said idols for better stats. This is on contrast to many other rhythm games, where a perfect run is rewarded accordingly (unless the player uses assistance mods); in fact, LLSIF doesn't even recognize all-Perfect runs.
- 1 Good Explanation A major source of frustration is getting a combo-breaking judgement, the highest of those being a Good. Since each song has rewards based on score, max combo, and play count, and the highest combo rewards are only available with a full combo, even one combo break is enough to deprive the player out of the best rewards.
- #LoveLiveWins Explanation In May of 2015, an article reported on the removal of references to lesbian relationships and the switching of the Featureless Protagonist's implied gender from female to male. After much protesting from fans, KLab rewrote the Bowdlerised lines to put the references back in and switch the protagonist back to a female protagonist and patched in the revised script on June 30, 2015. The hashtag is a reference to #LoveWins, a trending tag that was used less than a week ago after the Supreme Court of the United States made a landmark decision that permitted the licensing of same-sex marriages in all 50 states.
- Lufia:
- My love is my sword! Explanation Dekar declares this when scolding Guy for being away from his girlfriend. Guy is understandably a little worried about this proclamation.
- The Magical Wife. Explanation Selan is given this "title" in an infamous scene, which she immediately objects to in hilarious fashion.
- THIS is what I would call frue destruction! Explanation Gades's Badass Boast in The Legend Returns, marred by a typo.
- Moldy Bread obtained! :D Explanation The main character of Ruins of Lore has a wide-mouthed smile which appears whenever he picks up an item, regardless of how worthwhile or worthless it is.
- The other thing I'm best at is ________! Explanation Dekar's recurring catch phrase in Curse of the Sinistrals. Often used sarcastically.
- maimai:
- maimai washing machines Explanation Many players have taken note that cabinets for SEGA arcade Rhythm Game maimai, which use round shaped screens, strongly resemble washing machines.
- MapleStory:
- n00b MAGE! DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH MANA?!!! Explanation Maple Story Mage classes start out with piddling damage output and have nothing to fall back on once they run out of MP.
- In the Marvel Puzzle Quest boards, "Dazzler confirmed" was a meme, as any character announcement had players going through some Bat Deduction to make it about the disco-themed mutant. At times, developers Demiurge alluded to it (once the clue was "Infinite Kaleidoscope Of Lights", which fits Dazzler's powers... but the answer was actually in the initials). And then Dazzler actually joined the game, and actually helpful for those players who joked about her for years.
- Metal Slug:
- RAWKIT LAWNCHAIR! HEAVY MASHEEN GUN! SHAWTGUHN! Explanation The "announcer's" Gratuitous English pronunciations, upon acquiring each weapon.
- Midnight Resistance:
- Midnight Resistance? Not tonight dear, I've got a headache. Explanation From one of the naughtier reader-submitted "Doodlebugs" in Your Sinclair, to which was later submitted a fishy mutation.
- Mighty No. 9:
- "Make the bad guys cry like an anime fan on prom night!"Explanation An oft-quoted line from the infamous "Masterclass" trailer, released only a few weeks before the game's release.
- Pizza explosions. explanation The same trailer shows Beck running away in slow motion from some very low-quality explosions. Viewers noticed their resemblance to cheese pizza and ran with it.
- "It's better than nothing."explanation A misattributed quote to Keiji Inafune regarding fans' and reviewers' criticisms of the game. The quote actually came from Inafune's translator.
- Mondo Medicals: CANCER?! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A CANCER IS?! CANCER IS A SMALL PIECE OF DEATH THAT SLOWLY TAKES OVER A BODY! Explanation One of the many more-or-less nonsensical speeches delivered by the mysterious, shouting man seen in cutscenes between levels.
- Monkey Island:
- "You fight like a dairy farmer." "How appropriate, You Fight Like a Cow." Explanation Swordfights in Monkey Island games are handled through witty repartee. By the way, did you know that the above exchange was penned by Orson Scott Card?
- Monster Girl Quest:
- Touch fluffy tail.Explanation In the first encounter with Tamamo, one of the options (which leads to a Non Standard Game Over) is to touch her tails.
- Dried fish.Explanation When certain monsters such as succubi kill someone through sex, the result is a very shrivelled up corpse that resembles dried fish. These words are actually used in the game (well, in its English translation).
- Moonbase Alpha: The game's text-to-speech function is subject to a fair amount of abuse. Demonstrated in this video, with some of its resultant memes documented below.
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- John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden
- UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Explanation Comes out as a big, long "Uhhhhh" that ends with a short "ooh" not featured in videos.
- Here comes another Chinese earthquake ebrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr
- ?!?!?!?!?!?! Explanation Comes out as "question mark, exclamation point, question mark" and so on until the second-last symbol, which it reads using the final symbol as punctuation. Similarly, putting in !! will produce the equivalent of "exclamation point!", and "?!" becomes "question mark!"
- holla holla get $ Explanation Another example of what may happen since the software reads symbols as-is. This comes out as "Holla holla get dollar".
- 9999999999999999999 Explanation Long numbers are read out in groups of 3 digits each, e.g. nine-nine-nine, nine-nine-nine, etc., if they are more than 18 digits long (higher than 9 hundred and so quadrillion, and so on). This continues until there's a group of 5 or fewer digits left to read, for which it reads without a break.
- Mushihime Sama:
- RECO-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!! Explanation Palm's death cry in Mushihime-sama Futari from Stage 3 onwards. Reco is a plot-critical friend of Palm and the other player character.
- THE HARDEST VIDEO GAME BOSS EVER! Explanation A video on YouTube showcasing Futari's notorious True Final Boss Queen Larsa, which has achieved millions of hits.
- Need for Speed:
- "EVERYONE!"Explanation The quote comes from the final cutscene in Need for Speed: Most Wanted, where Cross arrests everyone in the Blacklist, but finds out that the player escaped in their BMW M3 GTR, and orders every single cop to go after the player. When his female partner asks if Cross meant it, he shouts this line in response.
- The Golf is better.Explanation Austrian game streamer KuruHS often uses a Volkswagen Golf GTI as his preferred car when doing speedruns of Most Wanted 2005. This was popularized in the Pepega Edition mod, where the Golf GTI is literally called "The Golf is Better".
- Run's Dead Explanation KuruHS uses this line when something goes wrong in his speedruns, usually when he gets busted by cops. This was also popularized in the Pepega Edition mod, where "Run's Dead" is used as slang for getting busted and getting a Game Over.
- Neptunia:
- Are you even -trying- to enjoy the game? Explanation The quote comes from IF Prez in Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory. Whenever the player finishes a chapter, there will be a grading score similar to how reviewers grade video games. This is what he says whenever you fail to complete a lot of Quests in the game. Oh and trust us, they're hard.
- Futa NepgearExplanation After the Bad Ending of Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 featured Nepgear killing the other CPUs with an evil sword, it became a running gag in the fandom to depict Nepgear with a futanari (hermaphrodite) penis, sometimes flat-out referring to it as "Gehaburn" (the name of the evil sword.
- NetHack:
- You were killed by kicking yourself, while helpless. Do you want your possessions identified? (Y/N) Explanation There are a lot of dumb ways to die in this game.
- Go Team Ant! Explanation Soldier ants are the single highest cause of death in the game, according to nethack.alt.org.
- Nexus War: Nope, it's a wolf. No hands, no mouth. Explanation The game creator's explanation when asked why characters can't talk or use their inventory when transformed into animals.
- Octopath Traveler:
- "My focus is unparalleled!" Explanation Cyrus Albright (voiced by Steve West) is a passionate scholar whose dialog is often voiced in an exaggerated manner. This line, spoken when Cyrus reaches Max Boost in battle, has reached memetic status.
- "My blade is unbending!" Explanation Olberic Eisenberg (voiced by Patrick Seitz) is also known as "The Unbending Blade (of Hornburg)". While not as much of a Large Ham as Cyrus is, Olberic has his passionate moments, and this line when he Max Boosts in battle has similarly reached memetic status.
- Pokémon Trainer H'aanitExplanation H'aanit's Talent "Capture" allows her to, well, capture monsters to then use their abilities in battle, and lowering their HP increases the chances of success. Naturally, the Pokémon jokes wrote themselves. What's more, H'aanit's primary job (i.e. Hunter) can learn the skill Mercy Strike, which is the equivalent to the Pokémon move False Swipe.
- Return of the "Mrgrgr!".Explanation An Ascended Meme coming from Bravely Default: Tressa's Chapter 2 has rival merchant Ali set up shop next to her and steal her customers, prompting her to utter Edea's famous "Mrgrgr!".
- Psychopath TravelerExplanation A popular Alternative Character Interpretation is that the protagonists are comedic sociopaths, as most players just could not resist the sheer amount of Video Game Cruelty Potential.
- The Oregon Trail:
- "FORD IT!" Explanation Any situation can be solved by Fording it.
- "We lost bacon you dicks!" and "Need moar bacon" Explanation From Something Awful's Oregon Trail II Let's Play.
- X has dysentery. Explanation One of the most common diseases to die from.
- Here lies andy. peperony and chease. [sic] Explanation An epitaph found on a tombstone in a popular ROM for the Apple II version of Oregon Trail. Most likely a reference to the old "What do you want on your Tombstone?" ads for Tombstone frozen pizza.
- Thanks to Facebook, we also have "I tried to ford the river and my f@#$%^& oxen died!"
- Aquaman drowned. Explanation One particular, infamous Let's Play of the game where the characters were named after superheroes. The son, named Aquaman, drowned while crossing a river.
- Papers, Please:
- GLORY TO ARSTOTSKA!
- KILLER SIDEBURNS Explanation ID cards may note this characteristic.
- PAYDAY 2:
- Don't act dumb. Explanation Uttered in a completely deadpan tone by Houston as one of his 'trying to get a cop to surrender/intimidating a civilian' quotes. Usually said in the middle of an intense gunfight. This was made into a musical remix by the developers for the 2015 Halloween heist, alongside Chains' similarly-memetic "Get the fuck up!".
- Like a fucking Sputnik! Explanation Said ad verbatim by one of the contractors, Vlad, after you complete one of his missions.
- Why don't we just use a spoon? Explanation Houston's many lines of pure annoyance after fixing a broken down drill. Eventually became the achievement for completing the "Hoxton Breakout" heist, in which you rescue the heister Houston originally replaced.
- PAYDAY 3:
- Infinite double barrel shotgun Explanation People have noticed in the first trailer that in a clip, a player fires a double barrel shotgun three times, which some theorizing it might be due to a unknown skill. Once this trend continued into dev diaries, people joked that this would be a Running Gag for pre-release footage, such as the shotgun firing more than three times. This behavior would be explained when the Closed Beta launched, as the Ammo Funnel skill causes any ammo that is picked up to be automatically loaded into the weapon first, with anything in excess then going to reserves as usual.
- Smug Joy Explanation On the day of Joy and Pearl's reveal, Plaion tweeted about their inclusion, which included a image of Joy inexplicably having a shit eating grin on her face on her unmasked image. People took a liking towards this expression, to the point of some finding her more endearing as a result. Of course, this led to some memes about her smug grin.
- Stealing Starbreeze's serversExplanation After the game was released, the game was plagued with server problems where barely anybody can matchmake into a lobby, if at all. These problems persisted for days after launch, resulting in various memes about the matchmaking system and how the Payday gang broke in and stole Starbreeze's servers.
- Pepsiman
- Pepsi for TV-game!note Lines spoken by American actor Mike Butters in the game's FMVs—Even though the game was a Japanese release, all spoken dialogue is in English (but subtitled in Japanese), even during the scenes where people address Pepsiman before each stage, making for a lack of a language barrier. This particular line follows stage 2.
- Pepsi for pizza!note After stage 3.
- PlatinumGames
- Kamiya blocking people. Explanation Hideki Kamiya, one of the main developers at Platinum, is well known for blocking users on Twitter seemingly on complete whim. Became an Ascended Meme when the Kickstarter for a remaster of The Wonderful 101 included "Get Blocked by Kamiya" as a backer reward.
- Playstation All Stars Battle Royale:
- I punched a chicken! Explanation Said by Nathan Drake at the very end of his story.
- Being able to win with Kratos by mashing the square button.Explanation Commentary regarding Kratos' status as a God-tier (pun intended) character.
- Speaking of Kratos, he hates ice cream. Explanation In the story mode, Kratos' rival is Sweet Tooth, and the former instigates the fight between them by randomly attacking the latter's ice cream cone out of the blue.
- You'll Never Win! Explanation One of Spike's taunts, seen as the PlayStation equivalent of You're Too Slow.
- Plumbers Don't Wear Ties:
- "TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF!" Explanation In one scene, Jane's boss, Thresher, orders her to strip down to her underwear in order to get a job at his company.
- AN UPSIDE-DOWN FUCKING CHICKEN MASK! Explanation Halfway through the story, the narrator berates you (again) for making Jane do "sick" things, such as agreeing to her perverted boss' proposal, in order to proceed. While he's talking down to you, he puts on a chicken suit, and the picture is flipped upside down. The Angry Video Game Nerd's reaction to this turn of events is priceless.
- "Do girls actually like guys who are really aggressive?Explanation One of the first options you're presented with is whether or not John (the titular "plumber") should make the first move on Jane. The one that tells him to "wait" has a voice clip saying this.
- Pole Position:
- The Portopia Serial Murder Case:
- Power Instinct: "Let's Go! Onmyoji" Explanation A popular music video in the game has become a meme on Nico Nico Douga.
- Pro Wrestling: "A WINNER IS YOU!" Explanation The short Engrish message, "WINNER IS YOU", appears when the player wins a match.
- Psychonauts:
- "I am the milkman. My milk is delicious." Explanation The lines spoken by the Milkman as he reveals himself at the end of the Milkman Conspiracy level.
- Or, for that matter, anything relating to the G-Men from that level and their Paper Thin Disguises.
- YOUUUUUUUUUU CHEATED. Explanation Any time you enter a cheat code, you'll hear this.
- IT'Z GOGGALOR!!! Explanation From the "Lungfishopolis" level, which casts your google-wearing protagonist as a 50-foot-tall monster rampaging across a peaceful city.
- "What is the purpose of the goggles?" Explanation One of the lines spoken by the G-Men interrogators in the cutscene that follows if they capture you.
- Pump It UP:
- Hit me! Explanation Voice clip played upon inserting a coin. Gets stuck in your head if you've been playing long enough.
- HEY! Why don't you just get up and dance man? Explanation On every version so far, failing with stage break on results in the game screaming this at you.
- HOT DOOGLE DOOGLE HOOOOOT Explanation The main chorus of 1Tym's Hot has spawned a truly impressive variety of mishearings.
- I will make you understand! Explanation A prominent voice clip used in Final Audition and its many, many, many, many, many, MANY remixes.
- Q*bert:
- "@!#?@" Explanation This is what Q*Bert would always say whenever he hit an object (or an object hit him). It appears in a speech bubble, a reference to its classic use in comic books.
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- Rambo:
- "I feel safer in prison."Explanation One of the choices during the opening cutscene of the NES game. This leads to:
- Raven's Cry:
- Be brave, son-of-a-bitches! Explanation Raven's Cry originally featured a pirate crew member who would cry out some profane version of this line during cannon battles, over and over and over again...
- Real-Time Strategy genre:
- "Im in your base killing your d00ds!" Explanation Originated in on-line multiplayer RTS games such as Command & Conquer and StarCraft, probably when a player retorted with the line while a newbie was scouting to the exclusion of managing his base, and asked where his opponent was. Often used for LOLCats to be in your something doing something.
- Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale:
- Red Dead Redemption:
- FUCKING COUGARS Explanation Cougars are the resident Goddamned Bats of the game, leading to this reaction.
- COUGAR!! RROAAAWW! Explanation The only warning you get before you are killed by a Cougar.
- Red Dead Redemption II:
- Boah.Explanation Arthur's drawn out pronunciation of "boy", which he says many times throughout the game, especially to horses.
- River City Ransom:
- "BARF!"Explanation The sound that most enemies make after you defeat them. The Game Boy Advance enhanced remake, River City Ransom EX, added "BIZARF!" for the Homeboys, and "Bogus!"
- Roger Clemens MVP Baseball:
- HE WAS SAFE BY A MILE!Explanation A voice clip from the NES game, which along with "YEEEEEEER OUT!", may sometimes amusingly repeat as a simulated argument following a tagged out.
- The Room:
- RosenkreuzStilette:
- "Traitorous dog! Your life ends here!" Explanation Grolla's Pre Ass Kicking One Liner to Spiritia before the former's boss battle.
- STUN Runner
- コインいっこ いれる Explanation A poor attempt to localize the phrase "INSERT COIN" into Japanese. What's ironic is that the phrase could have just been left in English and it would still make sense to Japanese players, since most Japanese arcade games have it as Gratuitous English, and most of the English text in this particular game wasn't even translated.
- Scribblenauts:
- I FUCKING TRAVELLED THROUGH TIME AND JUMPED ON A DINOSAUR AND USED IT TO KILL MOTHERFUCKING ROBOT ZOMBIES. Explanation Part of a Neogaf post from someone who had played a demo of the game at E3, which ended up being noticed by the developers.
- Steak can be attached to a baby to attract lions. Explanation Line taken from a very interesting ESRB rating description.
- Secret of Mana:
- WE'RE GOING BACK TO POTATOS TO GET MY FUKING POWER WRIST Explanation Originally posted on 4chan (or similar) describing OP's decision to switch his friend's accessory for something better during a bathroom break, because the Power Wrist had the worst defense but increased strength by one point.
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- WOOOOOOOO Explanation One enemy type attacks you by skydiving from an airborne kite, with a memorable scream/battle cry
- "You cheated not only the game, but yourself." Explanation When a PC Games journalist admitted to using cheats to defeat the final boss, he unwittingly ignited a fierce debate about difficulty in video games (and especially From Software games). Among those who opposed the idea of making games easier was one particular Twitter user whose response became copypasta.
- Non-Persona Shin Megami Tensei:
- Atlus Hard Explanation Atlus's games, especially the Megami Tensei games, are so infamously difficult that, among other things, That One Boss. Atlus became the first That One Boss subpage that isn't a genre page.
- "We get off on your tears." Explanation Aram Jabbari, formerly of Atlus USA, said this about the company while talking about Demon's Souls. It's currently the page quote for both Atlus's Creator and That One Boss page.
- Rated M for Mara. Explanation Mara is, to put it bluntly, a giant green penis with tentacles in a golden, spiked chariot. When the Devil Survivor games omitted it, they got away with T ratings. When other games lighter than it included Mara, they got M ratings. Many fans suspect that Mara is the main reason for the ratings difference.
- Use buffs, retard. Explanation A common notion that players of other JRPGs carry is that buff and debuff skills are all Useless Useful Spells. The series averts this hard, where buffs and debuffs can determine whether you barely survive an attack or suffer a Total Party Kill. This is one of the first pieces of advice to be given to anyone inexperienced with SMT.
- Megami Tensei Wiki, the biggest English-language fan wiki for the SMT (and Persona) games, has been a Running Gag among the fandom as an example of how not to document a large franchise for wiki purposes.Explanation It being hosted on FANDOM which since the 2010s has been criticized for becoming an ad-infested, user-unfriendly wikifarm, is just scratching the surface. Going deeper reveals content rife with inaccurate info or copy-pasted from fan guides without credit (like the damage formulas). The userbase is not any better, with one admin always insisting the wrong info is correct despite other users' attempts to fix them. Not to mention that some articles fail to explain some topics properly due to missing information. The wiki is so bad that even the Japanese can not trust it.
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne:
- "Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series." Explanation While the Japanese and American versions of the game were close-ups on the Demi-Fiend, the European cover zooms out from the character to show Dante on the background and to put this very message on the cover, in one quite blatant example of Wolverine Publicity. The message became an exploitable and was plastered on almost every fake videogame cover under the sun.
- Matador / "I swear, by my sword and capote, that I will once again prove victorious!" Explanation Matador is fought early on and is regarded as the poster child for Atlus Wake Up Call Bosses, due to the battle requiring specific strategies (more specifically, manipulation of hit/evade rates) in order for victory to be achieved. The accompanying quote is his Pre Ass Kicking One Liner and is not to be taken lightly.
- Mot's Drama. Explanation Whether by bug or bad design, Mot has a peculiar attack pattern in which he can use any move whenever. One of these moves is Beast Eye, which sacrifices one turn for two half turns. (Yes, there is a difference.) If Mot has a half turn, Beast Eye will sacrifice a half turn for two half turns instead. His other moves are Makakaja (magic buff) and Megidolaon (High Almighty damage). Mot's Drama is the most common name for the rare occasion when Mot decides to spam Beast Eye and Makakaja before spamming Megidolaon, wiping out your party.
- ONE MORE GOD REJECTED Explanation Part of the lyrics of one of the battle themes. Any mention of Nocturne is bound to get this response.
- Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne would NEVER take advantage of our innate gullibility! Explanation A line spoken from a weird ad for the X Play Awards, which became notorious partially because seeing an elderly couple talking about SMT is inherently funny but also because said statement is... inaccurate, to say the least.
- Shin Megami Tensei IV:
- The Dark Souls of Persona Explanation Players accustomed to Persona 3 and 4 were in for a shock when they tried SMTIV, to the point of making this analogy. Though, this reputation doesn't hold up amongst veterans of the mainline SMT games, who find IV easy more than anything.
- Oh, a Hunter. Explanation The Black Market dealers talk in a very annoyed tone to the point where it becomes hilarious. This is their intro line under normal circumstances and is the most popular line from them.
- Photoshopping either Walter's funny background facial expressions or Jonathan's hair onto other characters.
- "Behold my demons!" God DAMN it Walter. Explanation The game's first major difficulty spike is the boss Minotaur, who is immune to fire. Since SMT 4's press-turn system gives huge bonuses to a demon whenever they nullify an attack (the 'Smirk" buff), it's best to avoid hitting bosses with such attacks. Except you have to fight Minotaur with a guest party member, randomly chosen from the three characters following you. One of Walter's spells is Agi, the fire spell, meaning a player have Minotaur on the ropes, only to have Walter jump in at the end of your turn to "help", grant Minotaur a buff, then die to one of the boss's attacks.
- EAT A ZIO!!! Explanation From Sirlionhart's walkthrough. Let's just say that he was... particularly gleeful when he discovered David's weakness.
- Merkabah hates manga Explanation Near the beginning of the game, Isabeau discovers The Rose of Versailles and quickly becomes a fan. This is one of the earliest hints that the high fantasy setting of the first few hours is actually built above a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, but after the initial reveal her interest in the manga becomes a running gag. If you get the law ending, you'll have a boss fight against Isabeau, with Merkabah's reasoning for why she has to die being out-of-context gold.
- Shin Megami Tensei V:
- "The God you worshipped is dead." Explanation The very first line of the July 2020 mini direct trailer, uttered by none other than Lucifer. Needless to say, it made an impression. It's also used by SMT fans to mock non-fans who were disappointed by the mini-direct.
- "Oh, you want some? WELL DO YA?!" Explanation While the game has plenty of assist demons that help you find items hidden in the map, Amanozako in specific became the most infamous one due to her voice and her presence in the game's story, with this line in specific being by far the most notable one due to how unsuitably aggresive she sounds while saying it.
- The protagonist's hair have become a source of COVID-19 Pandemic jokes, as its extremely uneven cut makes it look like he screwed up cutting his own hair, which is something a lot of people had to do during the quarantine.
- Young Man...Explanation Aogami's tendency to begin every conversation with the protagonist by addressing him as "Young Man". Spawned many posts on social media imagining Aogami saying various things to the protagonist.
- Skullgirls:
- Republican Double. Explanation When the voice-acting cast got their hands on the game, they started doing over-the-top impressions of their own characters as they played. This eventually lead to one of the (male) cast members playing as Double, the resident Eldritch Abomination, while doing a Fat Albert impression that became known, thanks to the red palette of the Double they were playing as, as Republican Double. This appeared in several of their other playthrough videos and is now apparently going to be a downloadable DLC voice pack.
- EKG Flatiner in the air. Explanation In the cast playthroughs, Valentine's voice actor Laura Post would mainly use her EKG Flatliner as a Blockbuster attack - and almost every time she used it, she went straight over their heads and missed (except for the time she caught the very edge of Peacock's hat, which was awesome).
- "Where the hell are my Egrets?!" Explanation Parasoul's voice actor, Erin Fitzgerald, freaking out as she tries to do her character's moves that involve her Egret troops attacking and protecting her. Not always successfully.
- "TAKE THE GODDAMNED SHOT!" Explanation Same as above only a more-damaging attack, so much more tension.
- "Click dat bitch." Explanation In Christine (Filia's voice actor)'s 20-minute attempt to defeat Marie, after about the fourth try she gets the advice from her fellow VAs to 'click all the buttons', which leads to the above line.
- Rich Brown's ridiculously smooth voice acting is starting to become a meme in and of itself.
- When's Annie? Explanation In the two votes on who the next DLC character should be Annie came very close to being selected twice, and was outvoted each time (by Eliza and Beowulf). Given that the character is very popular among the fanbase already, questions of when she would be added into the game became a memetic comment on various updates and forum posts for the game.
- Beep boop meow. Explanation Catchphrase of the catgirl Ms. Fortune's robotic double, Robo-Fortune (who started life as a community joke herself and is now playable.
- Given the game's Improbably Female Cast, the concept of the Skullgirls Dating Sim has become a meme even among the developers.
- Sly 2: Band of Thieves:
- Dimitri's suit is greasy sweet. Explanation Dimitri Lousetau is a marine iguana with a strange fashion sense and bizarre lingo. "Greasy sweet" is his catchphrase.
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:
- "Cheeki breeki!"Explanation One of the battle quotes used by "bandit" enemies. The full quote is "A nu, cheeki breeki i v damke!" ("А ну, чики-брики и в дамки!"). It refers to the act of "kinging" a piece in checkers, and in-game is used as a heavily slangy way to say "Quickly, flank him!/Quickly, get him!", etc. Since "cheeki breeki" is an Inherently Funny Word, this caught on with both Russian and non-Russian gamers and is now seen not only as emblematic of the game series, but of Russian "gopnik" culture in general.
- "Get out of here, Stalker!"Explanation A line by a random NPC in the first game, which is bugged so that he repeats it nearly constantly while the player is in the room
- "I said come in! Don't stand there!"Explanation Another bugged line, said by a man at the entrance to the Bar, who constantly repeats it while the player is in front of him.
- "Such is life in the Zone" Explanation Another game quote, often used in response to the game's difficulty, or to its notoriously buggy state causing glitches.
- The "Bandit Radio" song that plays in Clear Sky.Explanation The song is notable just for how completely out-of-place its upbeat, cheery tune sounds in the bleak and depressing environment of the Zone. It frequently gets combined with "Cheeki breeki" when people make fun of the games' sillier aspects.
- "Blowout soon, fellow Stalker!" "Really, when?" "NOW!"Explanation A humorous quote from a comic◊ depicting an NPC warning the player about an imminent blowout (an extremely dangerous random event), but only delivering the warning seconds before the blowout happens.
- "You see, Ivan...◊"Explanation One glitch in the game has NPC's occasionally holding their guns wrong. This is most obvious when they hold a pistol as though it is a rifle. Someone took a picture of this and captioned it in broken English as though the stalker is advising a man named "Ivan" on shooting technique. It quickly snowcloned from there.
- Star Control II:
- "Hold! What you are doing is wrong! Why do you do this thing?" Explanation The famous words spoken by the Mael-Num to the newly-genocidal Black Ur-Quan just as they were embarking on their "Eternal Doctrine" (read: genocide). The words piqued their conscience just long enough for their slightly-less genocidal brothers to stop them (though actually this is ancient history by the time the player gets involved). Y'see, the green Ur-Quan weren't that much better than the black Ur-Quan. Now used as a gamer's in-joke to call out any idea for being too outrageous for consideration.
- The *fat words* Orz *spits* are most *squishy* and make *campers* *enjoy the sauce*! Explanation Orz speech is very entertaining to both write and read.
- "Don't you mean you want to talk about FLOWERS?" Explanation A line from the mind-controlling Dnyarri, who does not want to talk about its psychic powers, and mind tricks the player into talking about flowers instead.
- PRIORITY OVERRIDE! NEW BEHAVIOR DICTATED! MUST BREAK TARGET INTO COMPONENT MATERIALS! Explanation The last line always spoken by a Slylandro Probe before they attack, usually interrupting something it was saying before.
- Stellaris:
- MUGANI? HAK HAK HAK!Explanation A quote from the indecipherable language of the Prethoryn Scourge if you try to communicate with them. The latter part is specifically an Evil Laugh.
- "Jeff" Explanation One particularly ugly Necroid alien portrait was used for a premade species named the "Jeferians". The combination of ugliness and the odd name "Jeferians" lead the community to nickname the portrait and any species using it as "Jeff". Jeff is often used to represent any terrible or unpleasant civilization in the game.
- WHAT WAS, SHALL BE! WHAT SHALL BE, WAS!Explanation A quote from an Eldritch Abomination that can spawn as part of an event chain. The player has a choice whether to submit to it or not (submitting does not end the game, but grants bonuses of... dubious value).
- Bubbles the Space AmoebaExplanation One semi-frequent event in the game has a lost baby space amoeba start following your fleet around. If you don't drive it off or kill it for science, it becomes a controllable unit, which you get to name like a pet. "Bubbles" is just one of the options, but is usually considered the funniest.
- Sci-Fi War Crimes SimulatorExplanation Stellaris provides a staggering number of options for being terrible, ranging from playing as a hive mind that wants to eat everyone, to blowing up inhabited planets with what is essentially the Death Star, to building a slaver empire, to using other intelligent beings as food, and so on...
- Subway Surfers:
- "You unlocked Clown Outfit"Explanation The character Frank has an alternate costume that makes him wear a clown mask. The screen displayed when unlocking this costume is used similarly to "You are not a clown. You are the entire circus.", to tell people that they made a clown (fool) of themselves.
- Sunset Riders:
- Marry me with my money... Explanation Yet another arcade mishearing: the first boss, having been defeated, is actually saying 'Bury me with my money'.
- Temtem
- "She/Her" "He/His" "They/Them" Explanation The option to have your character linked to gender-neutral pronouns, and select pronouns separately from your characters body type, was enough for a few players less receptive to this idea to give Temtem negative reviews. This lead to those who agreed with the inclusion of non-binary and trans-affirming pronouns joking about the bad reviews en masse.
- Joking that temtem is, in fact, Digimon/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Yo Kai Watch/Monster Rancher/Duel Masters/(insert Mons Series here)
- Platypet, a platypus-like Temtem, quite predictably drew plenty of comparisons and references to Perry the Platypus.
- Crystal Skates Crystal Skates Crystal Skates Explanation As of the early access release, players lose the Crystal Skates item that leads to several useful areas and items as part of the story, and then the available story content ends before you get them back. The amount of players asking for it eventually lead to the devs telling players that a Tateru dies each time they ask. Cue players spamming it repeatedly.
- Tetris:
- I am the man who arranges the blocks... Explanation A video about the complete history of the Soviet Union sung to the melody of Tetris quickly spread across the internet. The line would constantly reappear throughout the song, and now you can usually expect to find it several times in the comments for any video related to Tetris or Korobeiniki.
- It should be called T-Spin, not Tetris. Explanation Modern Tetris games award a "T-Spin" bonus for maneuvering the T piece into a tight position and clearing a line with it. Some games award a bonus for accomplishing the Difficult, but Awesome T-Spin triple line clear, with the bonus being higher than that of a Tetris. Whether this is a fair reward or going against the spirit of the Tetris franchise is a hot topic.
- And from Tetris: The Grand Master:
- Japan Tetris Finals Explanation Tetris: The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 PLUS is best known for its T.A. Death mode, in which the game begins with pieces dropping instantly. A mirror of the infamous video, titled "Japan Tetris Finals", can be found here.
- Invisible Tetris Explanation Tetris: The Grand Master 3 is best known for having a section during the credits in which the game continues, but with pieces turning invisible as they lock down. Certain conditions must be met (one being to reach level 999 (levels are counted differently in TGM, being based on pieces dropped + lines cleared), and unlocking and performing well enough in the "invisible roll" is required to achieve the highest ranks. The video can be found here.
- Ready, go! Explanation The game has a distinct robot voice that speaks this at the start of every game.
- EXCELLENT — but...let's go better next time Explanation Tetris: The Grand Master 3 treats failing to reach level 500 of Master mode and levels 500 or 1000 of Shirase mode under hidden time requirements as a Non-Standard Game Over, and flashes this Gratuitous English message.
- REGRET!! Explanation In TGM 3, failing to complete a section in Master mode fast enough results in this message, as well as a grade penalty and a Scare Chord.
- DANGER — The hardest puzzle game; not for beginners Explanation During the TGM 2015 location test, a sign was hung above the cabinet with this text.
- Taisho X Alice
- Hiragana Alice and Katakana AliceExplanation The first part of Taisho x Alice received an infamously bad English translation which, among other things, includes this gem: "Fine, I'll be Katakana (Alice). And you'll be Hiragana Alice (Alisu)." Otome game fandom took this and ran with it (and "Katakana Alice" is still occasionally used as a Fan Nickname for the character who says it).
- Time Crisis:
- Wild Dog's death or lack thereof Explanation Wild Dog, The Dragon of the first two games' Big Bads, is notorious for appearing to blow himself up in one game, only to appear in the next and repeat the process. The series currently spans five main installments, which Wild Dog has appeared in every single one of. Every time a new Time Crisis game comes out, one of the first questions fans tend to ask is something along the lines of "Does Wild Dog finally die?
- Transformice:
- ANVIL GOD! Explanation With clever use of rotating anchors and anvils, players discovered a method of creating a wild amalgam of anvils that easily tossed nearby mice around. This was later incorporated into an official level.
- This bridge looks legit. Explanation Many levels require shamans to create bridges to the cheese. Between weak architectural design, an imperfect physics engine and good old-fashioned trolling, they can't always be expected to work. The meme can be used both straight and sarcastically.
- FUCKING WALLJUMPERS Explanation A glitch in the game allows mice to jump repeatedly from most walls to gain height with enough skill and timing. The developers decided to leave it in. Still, it becomes almost certain that experts will get to the cheese first, and some players are bitter.
- Gleany? WTF is a Gleany? Explanation An unlockable adjective. Almost no one seems to know the definition.
- Treasure Master
- "Nothing in life matters!" (thumbs-up)Explanation A popular image about nihilism compares the stereotypical depressed Straw Nihilist with the cool, Totally Radical boy on the game's cover representing reality. It's possible the meme creator picked this particular image because it oozes 90's hedonism.
- Triangle Strategy:
- The Saltiron War.Explanation The rather on-the-nose name of the last main war in the game's setting became popular as a joke aimed at flame wars, presumably due to the salt part, especially on sites like twitter.
- Since Square Enix worked on both Triangle Strategy and Octopath Traveler, people started joking about other possible game titles that were based on some kind of shape.
- Undecided Anna.Explanation The game's voting system usually has two or three characters supporting each of the possible choices, with one character being "undecided." This is to help the player get the outcome they want, since the "undecided" voter is generally easier to convince the way you want them to go. However, since Anna is put in the "undecided" section the most often, players like to joke about how she can't ever make up her mind unless Serenoa tells her what to do.
- Trio the Punch
- LUCKY! CHA CHA CHA!Explanation Land on a number that actually gives you something in the bonus stage
- WHAT?Explanation In the final stage, do what you you wouldn't think to do and strike a passing bird...
- CRUETYExplanation A dog...
- YEAH?Explanation A butterfly...
- YOU FIGURED IT OUTExplanation And finally a pigeon, ending this very absurd game.
- Untitled Goose Game
- "Peace was never an option." explanation This quote is often paired with images of the goose holding a knife, perched on an axe, or other images pertaining to the goose's violent nature.
- WACCA: Missless!Explanation Completing a track with no misses results in a Full Combo mark, as is typical of Rhythm Games. However, clearing the track with 1-5 misses awards a Missless! mark, despite the fact that the player obviously missed a few times. Players on both sides of the Pacific struggle to understand what the game means by this, whether as some sort of Anti-Frustration Feature or Sarcasm Mode. It may be Engrish and was intended as Miss Less.
- Warframe
- The Witness: Jonathan Blow's piss jar.Explanation During the Golden Ending, a jar of what appears to be urine can be seen briefly on the floor, something YouTube commenters are quick to point out.
- The World Ends with You:
- So zetta slow!explanation One of many math-related catchphrases of Mad Mathematician Sho Minamimoto. Used in a similar manner as Slowpoke to mock someone for posting about an old topic.
- He's also used similarly to Ultros to tell some Incredibly Lame Pun, but math related.
- Joshua and his Super Jesus Beam. Joshua is a form of the name Jesus, after all. (Yoshua and Yeshua have the same root name.)
- Come get some Hot Stuff. Explanation Mick learns how to market pins using outdated slang in horribly right ways.
- Shiki's "Pants. Off. Now." and Beat's "IM DIGGIN' IT!" are popular among fans.
- Tin Pin. SLAM ON!
- Must... resist... emo urges! Explanation "Another Day" presents us with a considerably more upbeat Neku, whose love of Tin Pin Slammer prevents him from being the antisocial jerk he is at the beginning of the main game.
- There's a party in my mouth! Explanation Beat's often considered ridiculous line for when given his favorite food.
- Shut up and walk, dear. <3 Explanation And "Another Day" somehow manages to make Joshua even more suspect than before.
- I need more candy canes. Explanation The main theme "Twister" has notable Word Salad Lyrics. This line is emphasized by the instruments cutting out briefly and makes less sense than most.
- Worms: Oy! Nutta! Explanation One of the lines from the titular Worms.
- Xenoblade Chronicles 1:
- "I'm really feeling it!" Explanation Shulk says this a lot during combat.
- "Now it's Reyn time!" Explanation Reyn says this so much in combat that it might as well always be Reyn time.
- "Now it's Shulk time!" Explanation Shulk's up-taunt in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS.
- "Heropon Riki bestest!" Explanation An infamous quote from a nopon NPC in a cutscene made famous by several YTPs. Also used to describe Riki's status as a Memetic Badass (at least in gameplay) and a heropon.
- Xenogears:
- X-Universe memes are mostly limited to the games' forums. Nevertheless:
- Profitsss. Explanation The word the Teladi are obsessed with, and say using Sssssnake Talk.
- Praying to GoD. Explanation "GoD" is the name given to the games' economics management engine, which among other things deletes underperforming NPC space stations. Closely related to Random Number God in effect.
- Briefly, a picture of Bernd Lehahn, one of the developers, at his computer, posted during the announcement of X: Rebirth. The image on his computer screen started getting Photoshopped into all sorts of things ("this is what Bernd is really looking at"), including a picture of Bernd at his computer. This became a Discredited Meme after the people with Photoshop basically ran out of ideas.
- The idea that the autopilot is a gerbil. Explanation Started as a rant by ApricotSlice and took on a life of its own after some Deadpan Snarking by Kitch.
- Zero Escape Series:
- "This is a doomed timeline." (Or variations of that sentence.) Explanation The series' plot involves travelling to many alternate universes in order to create an 'optimal' timeline where the protagonists are able to accomplish their goals. (Usually, these other universes are ill-fated.) When the third game was put on hiatus, many fans declared that this meant ours was a useless timeline, and expressed their desire to leave for a better one.
- The Funyarinpa, Ladders, and Science Boy. Explanation Some of Junpei's dialogue options in the first game are rather... odd. They're frequently quoted for being so memorable and wacky, even in context.
- "My motives are complex."Explanation At one point near the end of Zero Time Dilemma, the main characters ask the Big Bad about the reason behind his big plan, which is incredibly complex and involves time travel and several versions of several characters dying in other timelines. His answer is that his motives are "complex", which fans love mock because 1) it sounds like a Writer Cop Out, and 2) makes it look like not even he knows what's going on.
- Zero Wing's "Blind Idiot" Translation opening is one colossal meme by itself, spawning edits, remixes and variations by the thousands, along with creating a host of lesser memes, though it long ago became a Discredited Meme. Even on this very wiki it is the Trope Namer or redirect for five tropes (War Was Beginning, Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb, All Your Base Are Belong to Us, You Have No Chance to Survive [which also has You Are On The Way To Destruction as a redirect], For Great Justice).
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors:
Video Game Systems
- N-Gage:
- "You bought an N-Gage, didn't you?" Explanation A mocking phrase often used on GameFAQs around the time of the N-Gage's release.
- "Sidetalking" Explanation The original model N-Gage phones had their speakers on the edge of the phone, supposedly to prevent people from smearing the game screen by holding it against their face. People quickly realized how stupid this looked, and started taking photos of themselves holding other objects (cameras, keyboards, other game consoles, etc.) to make fun of it.
- Nintendo 64:
- "NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOOOOUUUUUURRRR!!! OH MY GOOOOOODDDDDDD!!!" Explanation The Nintendo 64 Kid is a viral video of a child getting a Nintendo 64 for Christmas. He gets excited over it. Very excited.
- NINTENDO SIXTY-FOUR REMOTE CONTROL CAR! ... Wait, what?
- PlayStation 5
- Sega Genesis:
- Genesis Does What Nintendon't. Explanation Sega's infamous tagline for the early Sega Genesis ad campaigns.
- Blast Processing. Explanation A marketing buzzword for the Genesis allegedly having a faster processor than the SNES.
- "Bits=Power of Console" Explanation A notorious misconception started with Sega advertising the Genesis as 16 bit over the 8 bit NES, and was promptly imitated by NEC's TurboGrafx-16, Atari Jaguar and Nintendo 64 for their marketing campaigns—the idea has long been discredited, but it still lingers today among newcomers to games and nostalgic fans, thanks to Sega's ambitious marketing of the term in their heydey.
- Genesis → Mega DriveExplanation The console is known as the Sega Mega Drive outside of the United States. As such, a joke amongst fans is to take "Genesis" in completely unrelated contexts and change it to "Mega Drive", e.g. "Book of Mega Drive" and "Neon Mega Drive Evangelion".
- Xbox:
- The original XBOX was HUEG lol. Explanation "XBOX HUEG" is also used to refer to anything (including people) that looks big, bulky, and unwieldy. (See, for example, the page image quote for Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future
- Xbox 360
- Achievement Unlocked Explanation Anything can be an achievement.
- "The best thing about the 360 isn't beating the games, it's showing everyone online that I did."Explanation To some, playing games for the achievements (and increasing Gamerscore) is more thrilling than playing the game for the game's sake. It also has an absurd number of snowclones in the form of "The best thing about X isn't Y, it's showing everyone online that I did."
- Why do they call it the Xbox 360? Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away.Explanation A joke attempting to disparage the console, which attracted some snarking for seemingly misunderstanding how circles work (if you turn 360 degrees, you're facing the same direction as when you started), eventually resulting in the joke suggestion that 360 degrees is correct if you moonwalk away.
- Xbox One:
- XBox180 Explanation The speed with which Microsoft dropped its always-online DRM and, due to privacy issues, the requirement to have a Kinect plugged in. The requirements were met with massive backlash and, perhaps more effectively, the DRM was the subject of a brutal Take That! from Sony, who were promoting the PlayStation 4.
- Xbox, go home you're drunk. Explanation The Xbox One can be controlled by vocal commands, which includes features like turning the console off, going to the home menu with "Xbox, go home", etc. Thanks to the bad display of the Xbox One, many people quickly made fun of the vocal command feature. Yes, people tell nonhumans to go home for being "drunk".
- The Xbone. Explanation A fan nickname given by combining "Xbox" and "One", but it can also mean how boned the console is due to the bad PR by Microsoft. Recently ascended with a domain name purchase.
- Xbox Done. Explanation A fan nickname that surfaced after their dreadful presentation at E3 2013, since the general consensus is that the Xbox One doesn't seems to have a leg to stand on with the high price and draconian DRM policies.
- "Why's it called the Xbox One? Because Microsoft took 359 steps back."
- Also, there are various jokes about the console looking like a VCR, such as showing mock pictures of upcoming games in a VHS format.
- Various gifs pasting "Sony" (and sometimes "Nintendo" as well) over someone beating up or destroying someone or something with "Microsoft" pasted over it. Often described as a "Summary of E3 [2013]" Explanation Sony's E3 presentation went over extremely well, in contrast with Microsoft's less than stellar one.
- #dealwithit Explanation Former Microsoft creative director Adam Orth's response to rumours of the next Xbox demanding a constant internet connection.
- Xbox Series X Explanation That console model's redundant name got noticed by many.
- ZX Spectrum: R Tape loading error, 0:1Explanation The most common failure message encountered when trying to load software from a cassette tape (a process that takes several minutes).
Memes still needing formatting
- Croc: Dantini!
- The Golden Age of Video Games (note however that there are many variations on these phrases, some of which still appear in new arcade games):
- PRESS START BUTTON/ONE PLAYER ONLY
- PRESS START BUTTON/ONE OR TWO PLAYERS
- (FIRST) BONUS AT [point threshold]
- 1(U)P Explanation Although it refers to extra lives today, it was originally used to identify "player 1" (or some variant). The "U" wasn't always used though, resulting in "1P").
- 2(U)P
- HIGH SCORE
- "Miss" Explanation In Japan, this English word refers to losing a life/ship/what have you.
- "Extend" Explanation Refers to getting an extra life. Again, chiefly Japanese usage.
- NO EXTEND Explanation Typically the name of the "no point-based extra lives" setting. Again, used mainly in Japanese-developed games.
- CONTINUE?
- GAME OVER
- INSERT COIN(S)
- WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS Explanation William S. Sessions, Director, FBI. A screen that appeared in North American arcade games from 1989-2000.
- Usually used when somebody says or does something to make you believe, well, they're not a winner.
- Fury of the Furries parodied this in its Copy Protection password-entry screen, with a "Department of Kalisto" seal over the slogan "WINNERS DON'T USE COPIES."
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game had an opening screen with William S. Broccoli of the Vegan Bureau of Investigation warning that "WINNERS DON'T EAT MEAT."
- RECYCLE IT, DON'T TRASH IT Explanation US Environmental Protection Agency, William K. Reilly, Administrator. The EPA tried having its own campaign screen.
- "A POOL OF WATER!" from RC de GO, a very underrated racing game for the Playstation.
- Sony's E3 2006 press conference brought forth three instant memes:
- "It's Ridge Racer! RIIIIIDGE RACERRRRR!!! Remember that one?"
- The Giant Enemy Crab from Genji 2 (later renamed to Genji: Days of the Blade), which you flip over so you can Attack Its Weak Point for massive damage! This is supposed to be based on some historical battle that "actually took place in ancient Japan."
- PlayStation 3 will retail for 599 USD. Five hundred and ninety-nine U.S. dollars. FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE U.S. DOLLARS.note Ironic, given that two generations ago, Sony floored SEGA and their $399 Sega Saturn with their "$299" press conference.
- The consumer version of Oculus Rift also has a price tag of 599 USD, resulting in the repurposing of this meme.
- Speaking of the PS Triple, "Sup, bitchez! It's Chad Warden here."
- PS3 has no games.Explanation PlayStation systems have been infamous since at least the PS3 for having fewer games on launch, much less exclusives, than the Xbox or whichever Nintendo console it's competing with, particularly in the seventh generation due to the PS3's more complex architecture. A British ad unironically advertising preorders for it as "Sony's Blu-ray player" and mentioning almost as an afterthought that "it also plays games!" was just the cherry on top.
- It only does (reference to Sony's latest gaffe). This references Sony's advertising slogan later in the PS3's life ("It only does everything"), corrupted to fit whatever problem is currently hampering the PS3 userbase.
- Perfect World: Asoteric Runewolf is casting a powerful attack! Keep your distance!
- Xenosaga: What do you think, Ma belle peche?
- Ah yes! Feed me your hostility! Pierce me with your hatred! Blossom Dance!"
- Very good, TVTROPES! BUT YOU NEED... MORE... EXAMPLES! (A reference to the distinctive and... enthusiastic style of writing in the Interactive Fiction game You Are A Chef!)
- Shout "Ubwaa!!" in any populated area of Phantasy Star Universe. Watch what happens. You all have Kireek to thank for that, by the way.
- A simple complaint about a bad pick-up group experience on the City of Heroes message board turned "Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls" into the game's official meme. The boards went wild when then-head developer Statesman used it on the message boards. Then it morphed into a badge earned by defeating 200 members of the Skulls gang. It was incorporated into the official site's backstory for the gang. Most recently when loading screen messages were added to the game, a random message of "Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls" will occasionally appear.
- Naturally, it's all a Nemesis plot.
- FREEEEEEEEM!
- Futanari Cat Girl looking for ERP in Pocket D on Virtue.
- "this is how it start's jerk hacking (dupin rares)... pretty soon it will be gone to the americas..." [[labelnote:Explanation]]A forum post by a non-English speaking player complaining of people (jerks) cracking the game's code (hacking) and artificially replicating valuable loot (dupin rares). His fears that the game would be "gone to the americas" were never sufficiently clarified, as the resulting comedic backlash ensured this was his last public post.
- Why does "FPS Doug" like shooters so much? Two words: "BOOM! HEADSHOT!"
- The eroge Nursery Rhyme (which hasn't been animated) is best known for its opening theme, "True My Heart", and certainly not for any originality — in fact, it's because the song is a generic eroge opening theme. This made it the perfect song for Fan Vids depicting random anime that might have an Improbably Female Cast or a large portion of schoolgirls as Harem Series and removing their plots. The meme is commonly called "Kishimen", a mishearing of a line in the song that's actually "KISS de". This one from Code Geass may have started it off.
- July 31, 2020 went down in the On Air!, Hoshinari Echoes, Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-, Million Arthur and Project NOAH fanbases as a "cursed day": all of these games received service termination notices on this day.
- "LEVEL BROKENNNN!!!!" is a cry heard in many ROM hack playthroughs when the playtester has found a way to bypass all hazards in a particular segment.
- Sam & Max: Freelance Police:
- "Jack Thompson is so disbarred..."Explanation Notorious anti-violent game activist Jack Thompson was stripped of his attorney's license in 2007 after years of misconduct. Naturally, Twitter had a field day with the news, and it briefly birthed a Match Game-inspired Twitter meme. "How disbarred is he?!"
- I can't make fun of Daikatana without my buddy Superfly! Explanation You're not allowed to complete any of the levels unless your sidekicks (one of them Curtis "Superfly" Johnson) make it to the end with you.
- Shoot 'Em Up:
- From Darius: WARNING! A HUGE BATTLESHIP _____ IS APPROACHING FAST. Explanation The warning screen used to signal the appearance of a boss. There are perhaps one or two games in the entire series that do not use this.
- Boss fight Engrish is common in STGs. Treasure's RS games feature "NO REFUGE" before boss fights. Radiant Silvergun gave us "BE ATTITUDE FOR GAINS ... ", followed by three pieces of advice for boss tactics (which were "1. BE PRAYING 2. BE PRAYING 3. BE PRAYING" for the final boss). Ikaruga dutifully informs you that "The big enemy is approaching at full throttle" before bosses.
- Atlus and Cave advise you not to play their games outside of Japan, or you will be "prosecuted[t] to the full extent of the jam." Explanation The Engrish-filled warning screen at the beginning of DonPachi and DoDonPachi.
- THIS IS NOT SIMILATION. GET READY TO DESTOROY THE ENEMY. TARGET FOR THE WEAK POINTS OF F** KIN' MACHINE. DO YOUR BEST YOU HAVE EVER DONE.
- The "huge battleship" quote is memetic even among Taito's own games; it's appeared in other games developed by Taito such as Bubble Symphony and Space Invaders '95.
- From the Ketsui-inspired arrange mode in the 360 port of Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu Black Label: JUST A COUPLE MORE SHOTS DESU.
- Entering the base! Entering the base! Commencing operation! GO! Pookye Wookye right here! Watch yourself! Explanation Donpachi's wonderful Engrish dub at the beginning of the stage 1.
- Fire it good! Fire it good!
- Go play Mars Matrix.
- Among shmup players: "Falsificare", a recent lingo term for (often-unfounded) allegations that someone faked his or her superplay video.
- Blazing Star: You fail it!Explanation Fail to defeat a boss before the timer runs out, and you get taunted with the phrase "You fail it! -Your skill is not enough- -See you next time- -Bye-bye-
- Even with a full bomb stock and 0 lives, a real man won't even have his finger anywhere near the B button.Explanation An excerpt from an interview with Tsuneki Ikeda, a CAVE programmer, featured in the dual soundtrack for DoDonPachi and ESP Ra.De. liner notes. This seems to be reflected in games by Ikeda, which are known for making bombs feel very unrewarding to use and having penalties for using bombs (such as cutting the player's hit chain or a massive penalty to their Score Multiplier, with the penalty in some games being even worse than for dying). As a result, Ikeda is infamous amongst the shmup community for his "bombs are bad, never ever use them even if you're going to die" mentality.
- Cave Story "Huzzah!" Explanation AGTP's translation of Balrog's Incoming Ham line. Nicalis' translation changed this to "OH YEAH!", a reference to the Kool-Aid Man.
- *Jammed it into Curly's mouth*
- SimCity: You have too many roads. Remove some to save on maintenance.
- YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS! Explanation If you ever reduce the budget for Transportation, the advisor for that department takes it badly and yells this in all-caps.
- GO AWAY WREN!!
- Wren Insurance is the Weegee of city building!
- Reticulating Splines. Explanation A Loading Screen message that's become a franchise-wide Running Gag.
- Great, looks like we're stuck in MAXISLAND!!
- I'm gettin' you SimCity Societies for Christmas!! Explanation Societies is the least-favorite game in the franchise.
- Ragnarok Online: HEAL PLZ, HEAL PLZ, HEAL PLZ
- /sit - so what?
- WARP TO GLAST HEIM!
- House of the Dead:
- "G's bloodstains!?"
- "Dogs of the AMS… Time they made a move."
- "Suffer like G did?" Explanation The imp from the first level of House of the Dead 2 taunted you with this line, but his squeaky and high-pitched voice made it instant Narm, turning it from a threat into a question. It's a hilarious way of sending up the games' laughably terrible voice acting.
- "...to protect the LOYFE CYCLE!"
- Shenmue has the infamous subquest where the main character has to repeatedly ask: "Do you know of any place where sailors hang out?" X-Play turned a request for information into a bizarre fetish.
- Heavenly Sword gave us the gem "We may need you to play twing-twang."
- "Maybe I'll hit your weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE!"
- Dawn of War:
- "SQUAD BROKEN! TO THE RALLY POINT!!"
- Dawn of Bald. Explanation Most characters are bald, leading to this.
- HAIRESY! Explanation The above swiftly died after Dawn of War II, in which most characters possess immaculately maintained hair, leading to this accusation.
- The Narmy voice acting for the Soulstorm expansion spawned several memes. The most prolific is "SPESS MEHREENS! WE HAVE FEHLED THE EMPRA!" This one even infiltrated the original tabletop game, with Space Marines and The Emperor constantly referred to as Spess Mehreen and The Emprah respectively.
- We...we should take away... their METAHL BAWKSES! Explanation More Soulstorm goodness. Though less popular, Metahl Bawx is sometimes used to describe the Rhino transport. Now an Ascended Meme, as the Orks in Dawn of War II periodically refer to enemy vehicles as 'metal boxes!'
- "FOR THE DARK GAWWWWWDSSS!!!" Explanation The laughable voices of the Chaos Cultists (not exclusive to Soulstorm, though) are popular for similar reasons.
- SSIIIIIIIIIINNNNDRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! Explanation Bale yells this after Sindri betrays him. Popular with YouTube Poop.
- Vance MOTHERFUCKING Stubbs, who lost 100 Baneblades and still won the Kaurava campaign. Explanation A General who claimed to have 100 Baneblades at his disposal, which goes against well-established canon, but loses them at the beginning of his stronghold mission. Despite this setback, he canonically goes on to win the Kaurava campaign.
- "The Kaurava campaign was a huge mistake. Let us never speak of it again." Explanation Cyrus says this after his comrades pester him to explain what happened on Kaurava. Even the creators hated Soulstorm.
- Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword! Explanation Started out as a bit of snarky text added to some of the first game's artwork showing a Commissar in a tank pointing while holding his sword up. Added in the sequel as a random bit of dialog officers can say when they enter a tank.
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine:
- "We are Ultramarines! We are the Emperor's finest! AND WE SHALL KNOW NO FEAR!"
- *Bomb Squig growls* Explanation Bomb Squigs are the Orkz' suicide troops and pack a helluva punch. They also travel in packs and have no qualms about assaulting you while you're stuck in melee with 20 of their green buddies. Oh, and they do enough damage to kill you outright if you've taken more than 3 hits.
- Some cartridge tilting gave us this GoldenEye Good Bad Bug that Nico Nico Douga users immediately twisted into a memetic dan—GET DOWN YURERU MAWARU FURERU SETSUNAAAAAAAAAI KIMOCHI
- Which has since been spread to many other things.
- Speaking of GoldenEye, goldeneye is an eye tat is golden.
- DR. DOAK, BITCH!
- It's Klobberin Time! Explanation Nobody likes the Klobb, thanks to it's pitiful accuracy, small mag and having the least DPS of any weapon in the game.
- I AM A FUCKING LEGEND. Explanation Ryan Lockwood's commentary on his record-tying (and since broken) Streets 1:12 speedrun became immediately notable amongst the community due to his profanity laden gloating, set to epic music from Film/Sunshine in the video linked. This is but one example.
- A small-scale one, but worth listing nonetheless: anyone who'se played Caesar II knows when "Plebs are needed!"
- Among Spore players, some have taken to worshipping Spode, imitating the over-the-top words of the Zealot class. Of course, many more would like to see Spode blown to bits.
- Sinistar. "RUN, COWARD!"
- Due to a creator comment about I Wanna Be the Guy, whenever people ask why the giant apples fall up the most common response is "They're really more like giant cherries."
- In Mount & Blade official forum: BEARCLAW! Explanation Forum user Bearclaw posted a screenshot of an enemy lord shouting his character name, which is immediately made into meme by other forumgoers.
- I will drink from your skull! Explanation One of several equally memetic one-liners spoken by sea raiders.
- In the hit MMORPG Fly FF: "Buff Pl0x!"
- Seriously, look at the number of ways people ask for buffs.
- Free to play, pay to win.
- And telling Deuce (xdeucex) to do his homework has become something of a meme on the forum.
- Assassin's Creed:
- [Insert activity here]... IT'S THE ASSASSIN!!Explanation In most of the games, a large majority of the actions you can do as an Assassin will catch the attention of enemy guards whether you meant to do so or otherwise, including riding a horse at full speed, climbing walls using Le Parkour, etc.
- Conversely, Assassins don't sit on benches.Explanation In the first game, one of the methods to hide from chasing guards was to sit between two people on a bench once you've broken their line of sight.
- "He's going to fall, and when he does, I won't help him!"Explanation In the first game, an NPC who sees you climbing a wall in High Profile might make this comment.
- "You should find an outlet." "I have plenty of outlets!" "I meant besides vaginas."Explanation Taken from one of the first conversations in the second game between Ezio and his mother.
- What. The. FUCK.Explanation Desmond's immediate reaction to the ending scene of II And most likely the player's, too.
- "Curse heem! Curse the Christian keeng and his army of infidels!"Explanation In the first game, several NPC's will be proclaiming this speech ad infinitum throughout any one of the three major cities. Any player who explores the cities long enough will wind up memorizing this speech word-for-word without even realizing it, as well as the pro-Christian counterpart.
- Missed hugs = restarted games.Explanation At one point in the game, you get a quicktime event to give Leonardo da Vinci a hug. Leonardo is such a well-liked character that many players are willing to restart their game if they miss the button prompt.
- The fact that Assassin's Creed II ends with you getting into a fist fight with the Pope.
- "Where is Charles Lee?" may be approaching this.Explanation A large part of Connor's story in the third game is spent tracking down Charles Lee, in order to avenge the assault on his camp and the subsequent death of his mother when he was a kid. He asks this several times of the people he hunts down throughout the game.
- EVE Online: INTERNET SPACESHIPS!
- Spreadsheets IN SPACE!
- That's a Templar...
- This Index was noun'd because of Falcon.
- Well this game's pretZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- MY (ship) WAS EQUIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3 actually uses memes in the game. Upon purchasing a boomerang, the shopkeep adds "Best. Rang. Ever." The puppet ruler of the gameworld also shouts, that "I, for one, welcome our new Quinkan overlords!"
- Guild Wars: Echo Mending
- Spyro the Dragon: SHEEP SHEEP WONDERFUL SHEEP!!!
- THE SORCERESS IS FAT.
- WE'RE TOO LATE!!!
- At long last, my guests have arrived!!
- HI SPYRO! WELCOME TO GLIMMER!
- I'M A FAUN, YOU DORK!
- TROUBLE WITH THE TROLLEY, EH?
- Parappa The Rapper:
- In the web game Pandemic 2, the objective is to create a disease that kills everyone on Earth. To stop the infection, the regions in the world close their ports upon signs of a pandemic. However, the island nation of Madagascar is very close-happy with their one seaport, making infecting that island nigh impossible. This led to jokes about Madagascar closing everything at the slightest sign of a new infection.
Politician: President Madagascar! A man in Brazil is coughing!
President: SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING.
- Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War trailer Gag Subs. Old milk, new battles? There are three kinds of Screens of Death. Unfortunately the subs are in Japanese. Your wingman and final boss Pixy also has some memorable lines.
- "That's what V2 is for.Explanation Pixy, while dogfighting you in the final mission. The V2 in question is an ICBM.
- "Yo Buddy, still alive?"Explanation Pixy, addressing the player character in the final cutscene.
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has its fair share of memes:
- "Solitary! Now!"Explanation Threats of solitary confinement to keep Spare Squadron in line.
- "Can't wait to tell my son about that."Explanation Jaeger, one of your wingmen in the game's Act 3, loves to tell you about his son.
- The DLC missions featuring the submarine/aircraft carrier Alicorn has Captain Matias Torres, whose hilarious breakdowns and remarks make him a meme goldmine for the fanbase.
- "Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp, white sheets of the bed I had just made!"Explanation Torres in Unexpected Visitor, after you shoot down the jet carrying his cruise missile.
- "Salvation!!!"Explanation In Anchorhead Raid, firing the Alicorn's railguns
- Dragon Quest:
- "A Slime draws near. Command?"Explanation The message you're greeted with whenever you encounter an enemy.
- "Thou art dead."
- "Dost thou love me?" (No.) "But Thou Must!. Dost thou love me?" (No.) "But thou must. Dost thou love me?" Explanation Princess Gwaelin/Lora won't take "no" for an answer after you've rescued her.
- Alone in the Dark:
- HI GUY Explanation A deadpan line spoken by zombies in the second game (and reused late in the third).
- I don't have your example! And FUCK you anyway!
- I'm the Light Bringer! I'M THE FUCKING UNIVERSE! Explanation A line in one of the endings of the 2008 reboot infamous for its bizarre nature and delivery.
- "Neither alone nor in the dark" is a very common comment regarding Alone In The Dark: Illumination and the fact that it's a co-op shooter entirely based around lighting things up to hurt enemies.
- Gaia Online:
- You are playing a Visual Novel and you must make a decision. What do you do? >GENUFLECT
- Bible Adventures: Great! But you forgot Baby Moses!
- Disgaea: Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth! Americans like it because it seems like a Flash Gordon reference. Brits like it after this infamous PMQ session.
- GOITERS
- GOITERS GOITERS GOITERS GOITERS GOITERS GOITERS GOITERS
- Space Channel 5: THERE'S NO POWER!! ALL THAT'S LEFT IS DANCE AND JIGGY POWER!
- DANCE YOURSELVES TO HELL, SEE IF I CARE!
- SEE YOU NEXT WEEEEEEEK!
- GENIUS PURGE~
- Oh, not there!
- RAAAAAAATINGS!
- WHAT'S GOING ON?! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ULTIMATE REPORTERRR!
- "LET'S MARCH TO THE END OF THE GALAXY!"
- DIZASTAAAA!!!!
- Trauma Center: How to cure a minor wound? Well, first you disin-ANTIBIOTIC GEL
- DRL: Before him 106 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
- 87 of those were killed.
- 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
- 2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
- And 3 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
- Tokimeki Memorial: "YUBIKIRI SHITA JANAI?!"
- A good one from Valkyria Chronicles:
- Come on, there's one even better:
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215: "I got myself a paper clip." *Satisfied smirk*
- Zork: It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
- Numerous sound clips from Konami's X-Men arcade game:
- Heroes of Newerth: You want another example? TOO BAD IT'S ME BLACKSMITH!
- Modern Warfare: RAMIREZ! DO EVERYTHING! Explanation As with most games, the player character (Ramirez) has to do absolutely everything himself, but Modern Warfare 2 actually contains another character telling him to do it, leading to endless jokes.
- RAMIREZ! THERE'S ONE BY THE BLACK CAR!
- There's two you dumbshit.
- RAMIREZ! DAMAGE THAT VEHICLE WITH BULLETS!
- RAMIREZ! GIVE US SOME COVER FIRE WITH YOUR RIOT SHIELD!
- RAMIREZ! TAKE OUT THAT
SNIPER AC-130 WITH YOUR THROWING KNIFE! - RAMIREZ! BREACH THE ROOM WITH PREDATOR DRONES WITHOUT INJURING THE HOSTAGES!
- RAMIREZ! Hey, did you get a haircut?
- RAMIREZ! I DIDN'T TELL YOU TO KILL BIN LADIN!
- Interestingly, the TV miniseries Band of Brothers had a moment (in the "Replacements" episode) where Sgt. Martin yells "Ramirez!" and points at a picket fence, which Pvt. Ramirez then runs towards and takes down with his body.
- STAR! STAR! STAR! STAR! STAR!
- I don't remember the damn counter-sign!
- WE'RE OSCAR MIKE!
- Mission failed. We'll get 'em next time.
- STAY FROSTY OSCAR MIKE: RAMIREZ DO EVERYTHING 2
- And for the first: GRENADE OF GRENADE: GRENADE GRENADE
- TANGO SUCKA! BAMBI!
- BARACK O.B.! TEN-INCH STRORJINA!
- ENEMY AC-130 ABOVE!!!
- "Remember, no Russian."
- "X years ago, (insert tragic event here)...and the world just FUCKING WATCHED". Explanation General Shepherd’s Motive Rant where he reveals he wanted to make America go to war after Al-Asad’s nuclear strike has spawned several copy pastas.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops: "THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!!"
- FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE USED TO ___ HERE...NOW IT'S A GHOST TOWN.
- Mocap Dog AKA Collar Duty Explanation Many jokes were had at the expense of the Player Character's new Canine Companion after the announcement of Call of Duty: Ghosts.
- Fish AI Explanation Part of the reveal of Ghosts centered around showing the AI of fish, who would swim away when the player approached. Needless to say, the Internet had a field day with that one.
- "Press F to pay respects." Explanation A prompt that appears during a funeral scene in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that was widely mocked for being stupid.
- No Man's Sky: The early pre-release marketing being somewhat vague about the gameplay led to the phrase "What do you even do?!" becoming popular within the fanbase. It has since been used ironically.
- Photoshopping the game's box art to show a picture of Newman from Seinfeld and editing the game's title as Newman's Sky.
- Due to the lackluster content at release and subsequent content being introduced in updates, players have joked that Hello Games basically release the DLC then slowly add the full game later.
- The DJMAX fanbase brings us the following:
- Shoreline / "Act like you know" /
Platinum Crew Shoreline Crew.- Para Q gets the opposite treatment, and is often viewed as a "rival song" to Shoreline.
- Fuck it, Oblivion.
- I Want You = Delicious Flat Chests. If not DFC, Do Not Want.
- End of the Moonlight, aka Na naaa na na na, naaa na na--GAME OVER!
- The NB Rangers. Part of their popularity comes from them being parodies of Power Rangers / Super Sentai characters, the other part comes from their crazy beating up of couples.
- The Para Q Dogy. Explanation In the background animation for Para Q, one of the rapidly-flashing images is of a dog with the caption "DOGY".
- Enemy Storm SP, aka: CROOVE'd. Explanation When the Special chart for Enemy Storm was released, it was notorious for being the most difficult chart in the game at the time.
- STOMP! STEP! SLASH! DROP DEAD!
- Let's move into action with firm belief! Fight off the urge to scream and flee!
- Go let's go let's go let's SUPASO go let's go let's go let's SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC Explanation The majority of the stripped-down lyrics in Supersonic (Mr. Funky Remix).
- Hanz Up, aka Gay Bar◊.
- YOU FAILED!! Explanation Upon failing a song in Technika 2, shutters will suddenly slam down on the screen while a voice shouts "YOU FAILED. GAME OVER."
- Press X to Pay RESPECTExplanation The title screen for DJMAX Respect features this game-starting prompt, a Shout-Out to the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare "Press F to pay respects" meme.
- Battlefield: ENEMY BOAT SPOTTED! (repeated hundreds of times on a map with no water)
- Be advised, the Battlefield 3 Alpha build has the phrase "Be advised" involved in most of the voice responses, over.
- Be advised, I'm advised of your advise of the Battlefield 3 Alpha build having the phrase "Be advised" in most of the voice responses, over.
- Prince of Persia (2008): Could've had carpets THIS THICK!! Explanation Prince of Persia (2008) justifies its Bag of Spilling by having the titular prince lose his donkey loaded with goods right before he meets Eleka, and he bemoans the loss with the above bit of Narm.
- The Super Sidekicks: BUT!
- Robot Unicorn Attack: AAAAALLLLLWAYS, I WANNA BEEEEE WITH YOU AND MAKE BELIEEEEEVE WITH YOU AND LIVE IN HARMONY HARMONY OOOOOHHHHH LOOOOOOOOOOVE~!
- A firey death awaits you!
- Professor Layton: "I haff tvelve metchsteek."
- "FUCK YOU!"
- "This reminds me of a puzzle." Explanation The Professor sees puzzles in everything.
- The fragility of the main character in Spelunker. Taken a step further in 3D Dot Game Heroes with "Spelunker Mode", which turns your hero into a One-Hit-Point Wonder.
- Restart Fighters.
- It's a general gaming meme to comment on, usually at least, a video for an old game and say how you can't wait for it to come out. Preferably in a very loud and exaggerated manner.
- Just Cause: MY NAME IS BOLO SANTOSI
- Homeworld: Bring Sajuuk to Bear. Bring Sajuuk to Bear. Bring Sajuuk to Bear.
- Gears of War: COLE TRAIN BABY!
- Commander Keen: DOPEFISH LIVES!
- Guitar Hero: "What's the new TTFAF/Jordan"
- "Raining Blood is Impossible!" Like you haven't heard that one amillion times. People, heck the wiki, are believing it.
- Konami's E3 2010 conference spawned a handful of memes within minutes.
- Ninety-Nine Nights:
ONE MILLION TROOBS WAN MILYUN TRUUPS - I love you guys.
- You can Move your body freery.
- The XXX and the YYY, the XXX and the YYY.
- Extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme.
- You will be sucked.
- Owwwwwww.
- Tropico: I AM GOOD PRESIDENTE.
- Suikoden:
- DIE, PIG!!!!
- Look at me!!!! I am sublime!!!! I am THE TRUE FACE OF EVIL!!!!
- FILTHY GODWIN DEVILS!!!
- Almost anything said by the announcer from NBA Jam.
- BOOM SHAKALAKA!
- He's heating up!
- Behind/From the three point arc...
- Is it the shoes?
- HE'S ON FIRE!
- J-J-JAM it in!
- Cedric from King's Quest V is known for "helpful" warnings about the danger of "poiiiisonous" snakes. Well, maybe not just snakes...
- If you're going in there, Graham, I'm staying out here!" (Thanks for nothing, Cedric.)
- 'Tis beyond my reach! (Get lost, narrator. We're still debating if this is a King's Quest game or not.)
- ONE MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET Explanation Diabetus has fun with King's Quest V's decent-at-best sound production.
- THE QUEST OF KINGS! Explanation Slowbeef and Diabetus enjoy pointing out the sillier aspects of the game when riffing on it.
- MARK SEIBERT, MASTER OF MUSICAL EMOTION
- S4 League:
- "Zach, should we tell the people about the memes related Deadly Premonition? What do you think, Zach?
- FK, in... The coffee! Explanation A few of York's many eccentricities in Deadly Premonition, talking to "Zach" and consulting his coffee for advice every morning.
- LEGO Island: GREEN RED BRICK, YOU STAY! Explanation On newer computers, the sequence where the Infomaniac asks if you really want to quit the game glitches a lot. Leaving it at the right moment may cause him to get stuck looping one of six known phrases and then appear floating around the island.
- NARC
- Chase HQ:
- "This is Nancy at Chase H.Q.. We got an emergency here. A website about tropes has come online. The target vehicle is a meme-colored sports car. Over.
- "10-4 Nancy, we're on our way!"
- "Let's go, mister driver!"
- "Giddyup, boy!"
- (CRASH!) Please!
- "Okay, you're under arrest for spreading memes!"
- Rome: Total War: I want to see blood. I want to BATHE in their blood. I want to bathe in their blood FOR A WEEK! Now... KILL THEM ALL! Explanation Pre-battle speeches in Total War games change according to your general's traits. This amusing line is heard in Rome:TW when your Roman general is known as a Butcher (a trait gained by repeatedly playing on to kill routing enemies after you've won a battle).
- World of Tanks:
- Hetzers gonna Hetz. Explanation This one evolved out of the perception that the Hetzer, a tank destoyer with fixed gun, is a terrible tank, as sort of an insult.
- Hezhezhez
- Now livin' "The StuG Life" Explanation The status of most WoT players after having unlocked the StuG III.
- APPROACHING SOUND BARRIER! Explanation A sound byte played seemingly at random during gameplay in the shovelware title M&M's Kart Racing.
- "Congraturation! You Sucsess!" Explanation The Engrish ending of the early Hudson Soft game Stop The Express for the ZX Spectrum.
- Because of this, the first web site dedicated to ZX Spectrum game endings was named the Congraturations Archive.
- Ultima IX
- "What's a paladin?"
- "I'm not entirely sure."
- "You knowledge of the land shall be great!"
- "You did it, Avatar! When you restored the final shrine, I was given my life back!"
- MadWorld: "Awesome rack on her though!" Explanation This is Howard "Buckshot" Holms' reaction to the Elise before the faceoff between her and Jack. In fact it's the only comment he has on her.
- Hatoful Boyfriend:
- Still a better dove story than Twilight.
- SWAT 4
- You're in my way, sir. Need you to move, sir. Excuse me, sir...
- You Fool!
- Zap Dramatic's games:
- Angie catching a pencil in episode 5 of Ambition, accompanied by a drum roll.
- Helen's scream from the same episode, as well as the face she makes while doing said scream.
- Yale's smile, too. Ever since Retsupurae gave it a Colbert Bump, YouTube avatars depicting Yale smiling have become increasingly common, especially among the Retsupurae fanbase.
- The pastries in episode 9, due to the unusual focus on them during the marriage counseling session.
Helen: Have a pastry.
Yale: Mmmm. Helen makes the most
sumptuous pastries.
- Hey, Helen, I got you a diamond necklace...
- Duke's declaration in Episode 10 that he is a terrorist has caused people to comment on how interesting Duke's life must be. It's become a meme that Duke is a detective by day, a marriage counselor by evening, and a terrorist by night.
- Additionally, "because [I'm/he's/she's/it's] a terrorist" seems to be becoming the Retsupurae fanbase's answer to A Wizard Did It. This one is arguably the biggest meme the games have produced so far, to the point that some people have already begun to see it as an Overused Running Gag.
- Ted's rendition of "Amazing Grace."
- Ever since Retsupurae riffed on "Sir Basil Pike Public School," it's common to make jokes about Ted's actions in Ambition based on his role as a math teacher in that game. Examples include:
"I hear Mr. Hartrup's class really blows."
"Really? I've heard it's a blast!"
"He does have a rather short fuse."
"All his lesson plans tend to go out the window."
- "[insert command here], or I'll blow us all to Hell!"
- "Well, I hope you're jamming with whole-wheat bread."
- A minor one is "I know that _______________________, because my bike has a unique bell."
- The Hungry Pumkin [sic] — from Pumkin Land, an edutainment Minigame Game teaching basic English, this specific minigame involves a Pumpkin character ordering various foods and eating them whole — including entire glasses and the tubs that fries come in. Maybe it's the phrases he says ("I'M VERY HUNGRY!"), the rude behavior ("NO! I DON'T WANT THAT!" in addition to leaving the restaurant without paying), the appearance of the Pum(p)kin, or all of the above, but this has gotten a small following on the web. Particularly on YouTube Poops.
- TV Tropes: The Review. Explanation Comes from Polygon's review of the PlayStation 4, which had several flashy graphical representations of the unit for no real reason. Other news sites started mutating it pretty quickly after it was published.
- Stay Tooned has Show Within a Show "Whinefeld," a parody of Seinfeld that consists of animated versions of Jerry, George, and Kramer saying "meh," "uuh," "uh huh," and such. It has gone on to become a huge thing on Youtube, appearing in a few Youtube Poops and the original clip having several remixes (most of them, however, appear to have been deleted for copyright reasons).
- Posting a female video character "in honor of E3 and extraordinary female video game characters" Explanation After Ubisoft declared that Assassin's Creed: Unity wouldn't have female characters in multiplayer because "Girls are tough to create", fans posted pictures of female video characters in retaliation.
- Any mention of the words "life" or "hometown" is bound to elicit a chuckle from Senran Kagura fans, thanks to a cryptic Tweet by series producer Kenichiro Takaki describing his love for T&A ("Tits are life, ass is hometown").
- Wangan Midnight (including Maximum Tune):
- SUDDEEN KILLExplanation In Maximum Tune 3, this is the message shown when clearing a 10 Outrun stage with an S rank. To compare, Maximum Tune 2 uses "Instant Kill".
- Please call an attendantExplanation The games are notorious for their somewhat-frequent game-stopping errors.
- Slamming the wheelExplanation Errors are often caused by a player slamming the wheel hard to either of its limits; making such abrupt and sharp turns of the wheel is never necessary in high-level play, but it still happens amongst angry players, as well as ill-mannered arcade patrons who don't quite understand the game physics just yet.
- I'm coming!Explanation A bit of Accidental Innuendo in the English-language versions of the games, spoken by "CCR" Motoki in stage 34 of Story Mode from Maximum Tune 4 onwards, not helped by his rather tense expression◊.
- Sound of Ten persons Pulling out Mode.Explanation When unlocking the 10 Outrun Mode soundtrack, the album jacket for it◊ features the caption "Sound of Ten persons Pulling out Mode", likely an overly-literal translation of 10人抜きモードサウンド (meant to be translated as "10 Outrun Mode Soundtrack". Due to the Accidental Innuendo that results, players like to couple this with the "I'm Coming!" meme.
- 15 years of passion from seven men is wrapped up in that silver body.Explanation Yet another instance of Accidental Innuendo in Story Mode stage 27 of Maximum Tune 4.
- Do dress-up parts affect car performance?Explanation In spite of most players, the operator manuals, and the official websites stating that dress-up parts have no effect on car performance, some players continue to insist that they do. Even asking questions about dress-up influencing performance has become something of a meme within the community.
- FExplanation A borrowed meme from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, it started with players in a community Discord server spamming 'F' in channels for regions that don't have the game, most notably Europe and the U.S. East Coast, but has since been used as a catch-all reaction for bad things happening to players (such as breaking their Story Mode streak and subsequently having the racing meter unlocks delayed) in various avenues of the North American Maximum Tune community.
- The FD is OPExplanation The RX-7 Type R / FD3S is notorious amongst competitive players of the Banapass Maximum Tune games for being being good at effectively every aspect, leading to complaints about how overpowered it is and accusations of bandwagoning whenever someone tunes one.
- This trope page is sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends!Explanation Raid: Shadow Legends is a free-to-play mobile game that most famous YouTubers have advertised at least once starting in 2019. Because of the frequency of the promotions, as well as every sponsorship sounding the exact same, people have taken to mockingly declaring that everything is sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends, to the point where the app itself became one giant meme over time.
- HAHAHAHA! RONALDINHO SOCCER!Explanation Mundial Ronaldinho Soccer 64 is a Brazilian bootleg of the game International Superstar Soccer 64. It caught on in May 2020 thanks to the weird laugh and the mispronunciation of "soccer" as "saucer" with a strained voice, becoming famous as a Bait-and-Switch meme on the level of the Hotel Mario bait and switch meme.
- Appliance consoles Explanation Once the PlayStation 5 was announced, many people noticed that Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony's consoles of the time all looked like household appliances; the Nintendo Switch looks like a toaster, the Xbox Series X looks like a refrigerator, and the PlayStation 5 looks like a wi-fi router. When the Xbox Series S was leaked and subsequently announced, it somehow managed to continue the trend by looking like a speaker.
- The Rhythm Game genre as a whole:
- Combo-based scoringExplanation Rhythm games use Scoring Points as a method of measuring the player's performance. Often times, when the player hits a combo (i.e. streak) of notes without missing, they start to get awarded bonus points based on their combo. The idea is to reward the player for keeping a long combo of notes, but players often observe that this indirectly and severely punishes players for missing a single note; depending on the game, the player can be expected to lose an entire letter grade's worth of points, or even lose half of the maximum possible points, just because of one note. Thus, "combo-based scoring" quickly becomes one of the first criticisms pointed out by a player when playing a new game.
- 1 MissExplanation If the player maintains a combo of notes from start to end, never missing a single note, they may be bestowed with a "Full Combo" status for that song. Thus, being a single note away from a Full Combo is one of the biggest sources of frustration for moderately high-level players, and some Discord servers for rhythm games, if it's centered around one game, will have that game's "1 miss" display as a custom emoji.
- FREEDOM DiVE for XExplanation The track "FREEDOM DiVE" by xi was made for a contest of BMS songs, which are meant to be played in beatmania simulators, and is known for being an extremely frantic song with one of the hardest and most infamous BMS charts. It has also appeared in several official rhythm games, such as Cytus, Taiko no Tatsujin, and CHUNITHM, often with some of the hardest charts in each game. As such, there are often players of other rhythm games requesting, jokingly or otherwise, that the devs put "FREEDOM DiVE" into their games, much to the consternation of many other players of that game and some developers who wouldn't be caught dead ever putting "FREEDOM DiVE" into their games.
- "I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in 'speedrunning'"Explantion A baffling Twitter thread from a wannabe philospher explaining how the speedrunning community is full of leftists because they like the idea of "fast work" with little effort. While also somehow applying it to "sexual archtypes". The insane stream-of-consciounesses rant lead to a lot of mockery and parodies. Including this Sonic and Shadow exchange.
- Fortinayti ila Babaji?Explanation A guessing game made by Somalian tiktokers known for its peculiar pronounciation of popular videogames
GAME OVER, YEAAAAAAAAAA—* splat*
GAME OVER - PRESS 'R' TO TRY AGAIN
