True fact: Everyone on the planet is voiced by Scott McNeil, except for Scott McNeil, who is voiced by Frank Welker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqepQ_fWZbg

There you go.

Frungy, the sport of kings!

Most if not all of them are from the Star Control games. My only real memory of that game is starting it and then getting killed very quickly by a Slylandro probe.

Don't kid yourself. This is how every game of star control 2 went. For everyone, every where. There are no rainbow worlds, and no way to beat the Ur-quans, simply because there is no way to overcome those fud-rucking probes.

Actually, you can buy self-destruct codes for the Slylandro probes from the Melnorme, or talk the Slylandro out of them directly. Once that's been done, the incidence of probes falls dramatically. In the meantime, they're not really that hard to kill, and are a handy source of resources units.

I'm probably just missing the sarcasm in wonko's comment, though.

Me Grimlock say you leave town now!

Appropriate reaction is appropriate.

I had heard that is what you're supposed to do, but it's difficult when that's apparently the first thing you run in to and you only have a limited time to play.

I think the first thing I ran into was a barely-crewed Ilwrath WarbirdAvenger. Which ought to be easily destroyed by your one Earthling Cruiser's missile. And, then, there was Fwiffo.

But, after that, probably a Probe. I don't recall if I mined the crap out of Sol and upgraded my flagship and used that, or if I just avoided them until I got something that I could use to destroy them reliably (Pkunk Fury, most likely--my favored Spathi Eluders don't stack up well vs. the Probes, though I always found them to be super useful for taking out .... most anything else, actually).

Anyway, if you've mined Sol system to the bedrock and talked to Fwiffo (you recruited poor, lonely Fwiffo, right?) the next place to go is a conveniently nearby supergiant and check in with the Melnorme. Depending on where you go, you should be near one of a handful of different races, mostly potential allies.

Depending on how long it takes you to get back to Sol from there, you may have a message directing you to travel to Rigel. Do so! It's the first step into a larger world ... a world that contains Frungy.

And, when all else fails, run. There are very few places gated off from you, so it's entirely possible that you'll accidentally stumble into the Kzer-Za/Kohr-Ah conflict way, way too early.

I feel like I owe the thread an image, at this point. So, here's a couple robots:

Including, as I just found out, this fellow (In Not-the-UK anyway)

Be sure to read this in a scottish accent.

The Tripod image? I would have never guessed that.

I've no idea what you're talking about. Why on Earth would you swap the image of a tugboat out for whatever that is?


You're a silly fellow Mr. Nemo. Very silly indeed.

I can just imagine the Japanese reaction to Robot-Jox.

"Oh, the Americans are making a mecha movie. . . Isn't that adorable."

As long as I can't taste that, then I don't care.

I stopped worrying about such things. At some point in its existence, all organic matter on this planet was poop at some point or another.

Holy Frack....where and how much?

It's a scratch-build model. Some hobbyist made it for fun.

My dream... you just dashed it

Yeah she tends to be a wet blanket.

Hey!

OOOOORRRRLLLOOOKKKKKK!

And here I though I was the only person on the internet who remembered that game.

I just finished the Heirarchy campaign.

Sad stuff.

Nice what game?

Silpheed - 1986. I used to play the heck out of it!

I still have all the original Sierra games I owned in their boxes. Never had that one though.

Thexder, 1985