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My dad fell asleep during the Chrono Trigger ending. He still asks about Frog.
It was 1996, the SNES was hot enough to fry an egg, and he was not a “video games guy”…
Anyone else play GoldenEye with the “no Oddjob” rule?
Looking for the unwritten basement rules from your friend group. We had at least nine. One was about Klobbs…
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Anyone else play GoldenEye with the “no Oddjob” rule?
So my partner and I were arguing last night about whether the unspoken rules of basement GoldenEye were universal or just a thing our specific friend groups invented. He swears his crew never banned Oddjob. I told him his crew were monsters and I would not have dated him in 1998.
Looking for confirmation. Drop your house rules below. I’ll start:
- No Oddjob. The man is three feet tall and bullets go over his head. Not a skill issue, physics.
- No Klobbs. Not because they were bad. Because the sound made everyone want to die.
- Slappers Only required a full table vote.
- Facility, License to Kill, Pistols, no radar. THE match. If you suggested Stack with Power Weapons you weren’t invited back.
- Whoever brought snacks picked first map. Non-negotiable.
What am I missing? I feel like there were at least three more and I’m blanking.
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My brother’s house had a rule that if you got Goldeneyed (one-shot headshot from across the map) you had to go get everyone drinks. I have refilled approximately 400 glasses of Sunny D in my lifetime because of Trevelyan.
The Wall. THE WALL. We had one made from a pizza box with Boris’s face drawn on it in Sharpie. “I am invinceeble!” written underneath. Lasted us four years.
You forgot the most important one: if you picked Jaws you had to call your shots out loud. “GOING FOR THE STAIRS.” It was the only way to balance how huge his hitbox was. Compensation through humiliation.
Rule we had: loser of the round had to physically eject the cartridge and blow on it before next match. We were 11. We thought this helped. It did not help.
Hot take: Oddjob bans were classist. Some of us were short kings IRL and Oddjob was representation.
I am laughing but also you are wrong and I will fight you in the Archives, License to Kill, no Oddjob.