Starcraft - Media References?
ih...@hormell.winternet.com
I just got it last night (Zerg box. Happy little .. um .. cute Zergs.)
and as usual as soon as I got a new unit, I'd multiple click through the
things my Terrans had to say. On the Firebat, the last two things he says
are something like:
'Can I tell you a little about propane?'
'Or maybe propane excessories?'
Which is definately a reference to the TV show 'King of the Hill'. I also
noticed a big metal door in Terran map two that looks suspiciously like
Vault 13 from 'Fallout'. Has anyone noticed any other odd media
references? (other that the obvious 'Aliens' and 'WH40K' references.)
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The science vessel is almost certainly helmed by a very happy Monty
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In article <6gdd5t$lpt$1...@blackice.winternet.com>,
ih...@hormell.winternet.com says...
>
> I just got it last night (Zerg box. Happy little .. um .. cute Zergs.)
> and as usual as soon as I got a new unit, I'd multiple click through the
> things my Terrans had to say. On the Firebat, the last two things he says
> are something like:
>
> 'Can I tell you a little about propane?'
> 'Or maybe propane excessories?'
>
> Which is definately a reference to the TV show 'King of the Hill'. I also
> noticed a big metal door in Terran map two that looks suspiciously like
> Vault 13 from 'Fallout'. Has anyone noticed any other odd media
> references? (other that the obvious 'Aliens' and 'WH40K' references.)
>
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And i noticed the little vaults with 13 on them...a reference to fallout,
perhaps?
iG
Pyre
ih...@hormell.winternet.com wrote:
: I just got it last night (Zerg box. Happy little .. um .. cute Zergs.)
: and as usual as soon as I got a new unit, I'd multiple click through the
: things my Terrans had to say. On the Firebat, the last two things he says
: are something like:
: 'Can I tell you a little about propane?'
: 'Or maybe propane excessories?'
: Which is definately a reference to the TV show 'King of the Hill'. I also
: noticed a big metal door in Terran map two that looks suspiciously like
: Vault 13 from 'Fallout'. Has anyone noticed any other odd media
: references? (other that the obvious 'Aliens' and 'WH40K' references.)
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Jag
> The science vessel is almost certainly helmed by a very happy Monty
>Burns...
>
> Michael
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How about the Michael Dorn style voices for the Goliath?
Jag
R. Cliff Young
In article <6gdd5t$lpt$1...@blackice.winternet.com>,
<ih...@hormell.winternet.com> wrote:
[...]
>Which is definately a reference to the TV show 'King of the Hill'. I also
>noticed a big metal door in Terran map two that looks suspiciously like
>Vault 13 from 'Fallout'. Has anyone noticed any other odd media
>references? (other that the obvious 'Aliens' and 'WH40K' references.)
In the data disc retrieval mission, the scientists(?) near the Zerg pen
greeted my forces with "You Rebel scum!" (ObStarWarsRef)
Then I toasted them.
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Doug Jacobs
R. Cliff Young <nuk...@access5.digex.net> wrote:
> In the data disc retrieval mission, the scientists(?) near the Zerg pen
> greeted my forces with "You Rebel scum!" (ObStarWarsRef)
> Then I toasted them.
I got a kick out of that too ;)
I'm guessing the Zerg and Protoss won't have such things...either that
or the jokes just don't translate and so are left in their original
language.
Eric Berg
ih...@hormell.winternet.com wrote:
: I just got it last night (Zerg box. Happy little .. um .. cute Zergs.)
: and as usual as soon as I got a new unit, I'd multiple click through the
: things my Terrans had to say. On the Firebat, the last two things he says
: are something like:
:
: 'Can I tell you a little about propane?'
: 'Or maybe propane excessories?'
The Battlecruiser captain says "Make it happen" in a way that never fails
to amuse me.
The SCV voices sound just like Gomer Pyle to me.
When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an exterminator?"
which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
place it right now...
Matt Cook
> When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an
exterminator?"
> which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
> place it right now...
Ghostbusters?? (the movie)
Cheers Matt
Super-Tone D.
On 8 Apr 1998 06:50:36 GMT, er...@silcom.com (Eric Berg) wrote:
>ih...@hormell.winternet.com wrote:
>: I just got it last night (Zerg box. Happy little .. um .. cute Zergs.)
>: and as usual as soon as I got a new unit, I'd multiple click through the
>: things my Terrans had to say. On the Firebat, the last two things he says
>: are something like:
>:
>: 'Can I tell you a little about propane?'
>: 'Or maybe propane excessories?'
>
>The Battlecruiser captain says "Make it happen" in a way that never fails
>to amuse me.
>
>The SCV voices sound just like Gomer Pyle to me.
>
>When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an exterminator?"
>which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
>place it right now...
the scv voices sound like gomer pile to me too :) the archon <or
whatever the huge firey behemoth the prtoss have> will say 'break on
trhu to the other side!' if you touch him enough :) and yes, as
someone here mentioned earlier, the science vessel dude is almost
definitely a chipper mr. burns. 'who let all these lab monkeys free?!'
'e=mc... DOH! where's my notebook?'
hehehehe
Circle
Doug Jacobs wrote in message <352af...@news.tsoft.net>...
>I'm guessing the Zerg and Protoss won't have such things...either that
>or the jokes just don't translate and so are left in their original
>language.
Actually, If you touch the Protoss Dragoon enough he says
"You have 15 seconds to drop your weapon..."
"5-4-3-2-1-bang!"
Which is a Robocop 2 reference.
Circle
Pyre
Jag (NOSPAM...@swbell.net) wrote:
: How about the Michael Dorn style voices for the Goliath?
How about clicking on Goliaths repeatedly. "You have 15 seconds to drop
the weapon" "321.."
ED 209 from Robocop, anyone?
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Steven A White
In article <352af...@news.tsoft.net>, Doug Jacobs <dja...@tsoft.com> wrote:
>R. Cliff Young <nuk...@access5.digex.net> wrote:
>
>> In the data disc retrieval mission, the scientists(?) near the Zerg pen
>> greeted my forces with "You Rebel scum!" (ObStarWarsRef)
>
>> Then I toasted them.
>
>I got a kick out of that too ;)
>
>or the jokes just don't translate and so are left in their original
>language.
>
>
The Protoss Dragoon is quite amusing. He's got a theme going when you keep
on clicking. And it's the obvious one to me. :)
Also, I think the Protoss may have a bit of Orc somewhere in genetics.
I hear too many Cho'gals, and think of that charming Ogre. :)
The Zerg I don't know about. They were a bit distorted to my ear, so
they might occationally be saying something funny.
Steven White
ih...@hormell.winternet.com
R. Cliff Young <nuk...@access5.digex.net> imparts their wisdom:
> In article <6gdd5t$lpt$1...@blackice.winternet.com>,
> <ih...@hormell.winternet.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >Which is definately a reference to the TV show 'King of the Hill'. I also
> >noticed a big metal door in Terran map two that looks suspiciously like
> >Vault 13 from 'Fallout'. Has anyone noticed any other odd media
> >references? (other that the obvious 'Aliens' and 'WH40K' references.)
> In the data disc retrieval mission, the scientists(?) near the Zerg pen
> greeted my forces with "You Rebel scum!" (ObStarWarsRef)
Not only that, but I open one room on the same level and some Confed
Marines said something like: 'There they are, blast them!' which I believe
is also from 'Star Wars'. Of corse, it doesn't hurt that their color is
white and they KINDA look like Stormtroopers. ;)
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In article <6gf6ns$1ne$1...@newacme.west.net>,
er...@silcom.com (Eric Berg) wrote:
>The Battlecruiser captain says "Make it happen" in a way that never fails
>to amuse me.
>
The Battlecruiser captain also looks and sounds a lot like Captain
Gloval (Commander of the SDF1 in Macross/Robotech). Too bad the Yamato gun
doesnt work like the reflex cannon...
Scott Jennings
Hell, the Zerg themselves are one massive
Aliens/StarshipTroopersVileMovieVersion reference. Especially the
Ultralisks...
On 8 Apr 98 04:11:20 GMT, Doug Jacobs <dja...@tsoft.com> wrote:
>R. Cliff Young <nuk...@access5.digex.net> wrote:
>
>> In the data disc retrieval mission, the scientists(?) near the Zerg pen
>> greeted my forces with "You Rebel scum!" (ObStarWarsRef)
>
District 12
Also, if anyone here plays battletech, notice that the goliaths other name
(cant remember what it is.. forward assault something something) is FASA if
you just look at the initials.
> ih...@hormell.winternet.com says...
> >
> > I just got it last night (Zerg box. Happy little .. um .. cute Zergs.)
> > and as usual as soon as I got a new unit, I'd multiple click through
the
> > things my Terrans had to say. On the Firebat, the last two things he
says
> > are something like:
> >
> > 'Can I tell you a little about propane?'
> > 'Or maybe propane excessories?'
> >
Christopher A Tew
On 8 Apr 1998 07:33:15 GMT, my net caught this bit of flotsam from
"Matt Cook" <al...@uq.net.au>:
>> When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an
>exterminator?"
>> which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
>> place it right now...
>
>Ghostbusters?? (the movie)
>
>Cheers Matt
Never mind that their voices sound oddly like Clint Eastwood.
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In article <6ggjvd$3je$1...@news.ncal.verio.com>, c...@ccnet.com (Chris Gross)
wrote:
True, but the Yamato gun works exactly like the wave motion cannon from
Space Cruiser Yamato, which was Starblazers in the U.S.
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> the archon <or whatever the huge firey behemoth the prtoss have> will say 'break on
>trhu to the other side!' if you touch him enough :)
Another music reference:
The High Templar talks about having an "appetite for destruction," and
tells you to "use your illusion."
Guns'N'Roses, anyone? :)
Thierry Nguyen
Slipping this in the occasional free minute or two at work.
CGW
Christopher A Tew
Siege Tank: "WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!"
This is from good ol' goddamn Full Metal Jacket.
Ken Adams
Another thing I've noticed is that the Explorer captains sound quite a
lot like "The Simpson's" Mr. Burns. "Ehhxcellent!"
Ken
Lost Dragon
>Another thing I've noticed is that the Explorer captains sound quite a
>lot like "The Simpson's" Mr. Burns. "Ehhxcellent!"
Hmm. I just noticed that as well. If you click on him enough, he
quotes that famous spock line: "Ship... Out of danger?"
Fun stuff this. I guess it's not by chance that the terran scv voice
sounds like Gomer Pile.
I find myself liking this game as a role-playing game (almost).
Speaking of which, I find it extremely odd that several RPG developers
have chosen to mesh their games into quake-esque or tomb-raider-esque
shoot-em-ups instead of incorporating large chunks from popular
real-time or turn-based strategy games.
After all, half your time in the old pen and paper games was spent in
strategic (tactical - *whatever*) combat.
I suppose that's why I always favored the "isometric" view over all
else. It made me feel like I was gaming with miniatures.
I guess I'll save that for another subject line though.
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Christopher A Tew wrote:
>
> Siege Tank: "WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!"
>
> This is from good ol' goddamn Full Metal Jacket.
>
> -Cat
>
Anyone else think that the Goliath looks like ED-209 from Robocop and
sounds like Worf from ST:TNG?
Joe
Glenn Brensinger
er...@silcom.com (Eric Berg) chirped:
>The Battlecruiser captain says "Make it happen" in a way that never fails
>to amuse me.
>
>The SCV voices sound just like Gomer Pyle to me.
>
>When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an exterminator?"
>which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
>place it right now...
The amount of Star Trek references was pretty funny. Every other
phrase from the Battlecruiser was a Picard-ism. "Take it slow"
indeed. The Protoss Arbiters would shout out "Durass" or "Gowron" at
times (Arbiter of Succession.)
And of course, "Yamato gun?" Uchu Senchan Yamato, anyone?
Glenn
Carlos DaSilva
Glenn Brensinger wrote in message <354219d2....@news.metro2000.net>...
Yeah, Picard-isms, except why did they make him say "Make it happen" instead
of "Make it so"? I wonder if Paramount got a little touchy about that... :)
CJD
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gl...@the-nest.com (Glenn Brensinger) wrote:
>er...@silcom.com (Eric Berg) chirped:
>
>
>>The Battlecruiser captain says "Make it happen" in a way that never fails
>>to amuse me.
>>
>>The SCV voices sound just like Gomer Pyle to me.
>>
>>When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an exterminator?"
>>which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
>>place it right now...
>
>The amount of Star Trek references was pretty funny. Every other
>phrase from the Battlecruiser was a Picard-ism. "Take it slow"
>indeed. The Protoss Arbiters would shout out "Durass" or "Gowron" at
>times (Arbiter of Succession.)
>
>And of course, "Yamato gun?" Uchu Senchan Yamato, anyone?
Did you notice the tributes/ripoffs of all of the Nausicaa designs?
The ones I noticed:
Reaver = Ohmu
Mutalisk = Royal Yanma
Archon = God Warrior/Judicator
Arbiter = Arbitrator
But at least they listed him in the "thank you" section.
Patrick
steven daniel hilberg
gl...@the-nest.com (Glenn Brensinger) writes:
>er...@silcom.com (Eric Berg) chirped:
>>The Battlecruiser captain says "Make it happen" in a way that never fails
>>to amuse me.
>>The SCV voices sound just like Gomer Pyle to me.
>>When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an exterminator?"
>>which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
>>place it right now...
It's from Ghostbusters, I think, when they first go into that hotel....I
could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's it.
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steven daniel hilberg wrote:
>
> gl...@the-nest.com (Glenn Brensinger) writes:
> >er...@silcom.com (Eric Berg) chirped:
> >>The Battlecruiser captain says "Make it happen" in a way that never fails
> >>to amuse me.
> >>The SCV voices sound just like Gomer Pyle to me.
> >>When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an exterminator?"
> >>which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
> >>place it right now...
>
> It's from Ghostbusters, I think, when they first go into that hotel....I
> could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's it.
Yes, they did use that line, but the voice reminds me of Clint
Eastwood. Anyone else catch the Captain Gloval reference for
the Battlecruiser captain?
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In article <353B85...@bugger.off.spammers>, davi...@bugger.off.spammers says...
> steven daniel hilberg wrote:
> >
> > gl...@the-nest.com (Glenn Brensinger) writes:
> > >er...@silcom.com (Eric Berg) chirped:
> > >>The Battlecruiser captain says "Make it happen" in a way that never fails
> > >>to amuse me.
> > >>The SCV voices sound just like Gomer Pyle to me.
> > >>When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an exterminator?"
> > >>which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
> > >>place it right now...
> >
> > It's from Ghostbusters, I think, when they first go into that hotel....I
> > could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's it.
>
> Yes, they did use that line, but the voice reminds me of Clint
> Eastwood. Anyone else catch the Captain Gloval reference for
> the Battlecruiser captain?
>
Yep. Had just bought a Robotech tape and watched some old taped episodes. I was highly
amused, especially w/ "Gloval" using all the Star Trek phrases.
Jason Townsend
>>And of course, "Yamato gun?" Uchu Senchan Yamato, anyone?
No, I think this one is from the Japanese WW2 supercarrier, Yamato, which
was supposed to be the ultimate weapon. Unless, of course, Uchu Senchan
Yamato was the feller they named it after...
-
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Clay Cahill
I dunno about Uchu Senchan Yamato exactly, but I think that it means
Battle Cruiser Yamato. There was a really cool pre Macross cartoon in
the 80's about an evil alien race that kick a little human ass, so the
humans build this huge weapon... and they raise the Yamato and lay
this gun along the keel... all along the keel (Like I said, it was
huge). So they sealed the ship up, gave it a star drive and sent it
out for a little payvback. I remember that I liked it because each
episode was numbered (each episode counted down how many more episodes
there were to go before they cought the bad guys.
Clay-
waih...@cyberway.com.sg
In article <6hlqqj$q13$1...@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>#1/1,
town...@netcom.ca (Jason Townsend) wrote:
>
> >>And of course, "Yamato gun?" Uchu Senchan Yamato, anyone?
>
> No, I think this one is from the Japanese WW2 supercarrier, Yamato, which
> was supposed to be the ultimate weapon. Unless, of course, Uchu Senchan
> Yamato was the feller they named it after...
WW2 Yamato was a battleship. There were plans by the Japanese to convert
it to a carrier but it was sunk before that happened.
The YAMATO GUN was from the cartoon (Uchu Senchan ?). Where they salvaged
that WW2 yamato and made it a spaceship with this huge gun in front :)
> -
> Jason
>
>
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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:12:48 -0600, waih...@cyberway.com.sg wrote:
>In article <6hlqqj$q13$1...@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>#1/1,
> town...@netcom.ca (Jason Townsend) wrote:
>>
>> >>And of course, "Yamato gun?" Uchu Senchan Yamato, anyone?
>>
>> No, I think this one is from the Japanese WW2 supercarrier, Yamato, which
>> was supposed to be the ultimate weapon. Unless, of course, Uchu Senchan
>> Yamato was the feller they named it after...
>
>WW2 Yamato was a battleship. There were plans by the Japanese to convert
>it to a carrier but it was sunk before that happened.
>
>The YAMATO GUN was from the cartoon (Uchu Senchan ?). Where they salvaged
>that WW2 yamato and made it a spaceship with this huge gun in front :)
>> -
>> Jason
>>
>>
That was Starblazers (American Version) and Space Battleship Yamato
(Japanese version) and the Yamato was the ship renamed the Argo I
think. The gun was the Wave Motion Gun I think.
I would LOVE to see a game based on that series. Space battleships,
Tiger Fighters, the comet empire....
I am getting a semi just thinking about it
Kevin J. Chen
A couple of apparent references that I don't believe have been
mentioned:
The non-guardian mutalisk variant fires star-shaped missiles which
rebound off targets and strike other nearby objects. The unit display
lists this weapon as the "Glave wurm", which sounds suspiciously like
the uber-weapon from that science-fiction classic, Krull.
The ultralisk attacks with two large tusk-like blades, which the unit
display identifies as "kaiser blades". Some folks call it a sling
blade, but I call it a kaiser blade. Mmm-hmm. (if you still don't
get the reference, this is a sign that you must rush out and rent
Billy Bob Thornton's excellent movie, Sling Blade).
Kevin.
waih...@cyberway.com.sg
In article <354012bf...@news.oit.umass.edu>,
Wow, u really have great memory. Now that u've brought the names up,
I'm starting to get nostalgic .. that'a great series wasn't it ? :)
-TWH
Doug Jacobs
Jason Townsend <town...@netcom.ca> wrote:
> >>And of course, "Yamato gun?" Uchu Senchan Yamato, anyone?
> No, I think this one is from the Japanese WW2 supercarrier, Yamato, which
> was supposed to be the ultimate weapon. Unless, of course, Uchu Senchan
> Yamato was the feller they named it after...
If you've played around with the editor, you may be surprised to find a
God Soldier in one of the Doodad palletes.
The God Soldiers, you may remember, were used in Nausicaa to destroy
the world.
Timothy Gaastra
Jason Townsend (town...@netcom.ca) wrote:
> >>And of course, "Yamato gun?" Uchu Senchan Yamato, anyone?
> No, I think this one is from the Japanese WW2 supercarrier, Yamato, which
> was supposed to be the ultimate weapon. Unless, of course, Uchu Senchan
> Yamato was the feller they named it after...
> -
> Jason
Battleship Yamato... Anime in which the ship had a huge focused beam weapon
that destroyed just about anything... Pretty sure this is where the
Battleship's Yamato beam came from.
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Clay Cahill
I heard that gl...@the-nest.com (Glenn Brensinger) said:
>er...@silcom.com (Eric Berg) chirped:
>
>>When you create a Ghost unit, they say "did somebody call an exterminator?"
>>which rings some sort of vague pop-culture bells with me, but I can't
>>place it right now...
Ghostbusters... THough could it be Norm (you know who I mean) from
House?
>
>The amount of Star Trek references was pretty funny. Every other
>phrase from the Battlecruiser was a Picard-ism. "Take it slow"
>indeed. The Protoss Arbiters would shout out "Durass" or "Gowron" at
>times (Arbiter of Succession.)
>
I was fooling around tonight after playing a mission in the campaign.
Just for snicks I clicked on the Terran Probe a bunch of times. After
going through the CM burns stuff, he says "The ship... out of danger?"
And it sounded like Burns doing a bad Spock.
There was a lot of thought given to this game.
Clay-
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The voice saying "Someone call for an exterminator", sounds a bit like Clint
Eastwood.
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