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 Alright, despite the title, let's get one thing out of the way; this game is not related to Secret of Mana. Some of the game mechanics are similar, such the the ring system and real-time combat, but that's about where it ends. This game was actually developed in America; the idea came from Japan, originally, but began development in the Washington office. It has some major B-movie (the kind with extra cheese) elements and inspirations, which is partially the idea it was developed with. There are also plenty of references packed into the 24-megabit cartridge, which makes it a hell of a fun game. It saw release in America in October of 1995, and in the PAL regions in February, 1996. Oddly, it never saw a Japanese release, so they finally know how we felt about not getting some great RPGs of the time (I'm looking at you, Live-A-Live and Treasure Hunter G). It's a very solid RPG with very nice graphics, a very interesting main character, a kickass partner, plenty of interesting and engaging NPCs, fascinating locales, and a very fun (if occasionally frustrating) magic system. It's only single player, but there are some multi-player hacks that exist, but I recommend playing this game yourself. It's very solid, easy to get into, and the story is fun and interesting, if a little simple. The music has some good points to it, but I find it a little lacking at the end of the day. I'm not going to say I'm going to get 100% of everything done in this game; there's a lot of stuff to this game, and I'm not going to guarantee 100% of it all being done. I'll be sure to do as much as I can, but there are some things that are a humongous pain in the rear end to get done, but we'll see a lot of things done here. I'll have videos for the boss fights, as I usually do, and I'll get some .gifs of the good moments, and with that said, let's boogie. Also, I shouldn't have to say this, but please, as always, NO SPOILERS Updates Update One: Outta Of The Bijou, Into The Fire Update Two: Assume I Said Something About A Clever Girl Update Three: Fire Eyes Teaches Us How To Flash Folks Update Four: Into The Bugmuck Update Five: Thrashing Thraxx I Missed A Formula: Acid Rain Update Six: Strong Heart Loves Our Doggie Update Seven: Sic Semper Evello Mortem Vipera Update Eight: A Very Little Bit Of Progress Update Nine: Salabog? More Like Salapunk Update Ten: It's Getting Hott In Hurr, So Throw Off All Your Spells Update Eleven: A Series Of Chutes--TO HELL Update Twelve: Welcome To Crustacia, Where The Punches Are Made Up And The Rogues Don't Matter Update Thirteen: Secret of Evermore: Canine Drift Update Fourteen: Holy Christ, I'm Glad I Didn't Screenshot That poo poo Update Fifteen: A Fuckwit With A Foot In His rear end Update Sixteen: Click That Tindeck Link, It's Seiren's Favorite Song I Missed A Formula: Atlas Update Seventeen: The Great Pyramid Of Crushiza Update Eighteen: Escapes And Drains And Fireballs, Oh My! Update Nineteen: York, You Goddamned Dumbshit Update Twenty: LET'S MEET THE BEST DOGGIE Update Twenty One: Back Alley Deals, Carnival Shows and Pig Races, Oh My! Update Twenty Two: It's Amazing! It's Stupendous! It's A Festival Of Fears You'll Never Believe! Update Twenty Three: This Is Just The Start Of Maze Related Shenanigans Update Twenty Four: In Which We're Okay With Opening The Road To Mass Murder Update Twenty Five: Let's Loot And Scoot Update Twenty Six: I Guess I've Gotta Do This Update Twenty Seven: And Thus, We Close Out The Forest Update Twenty Eight: York Is Still a Dumbshit Update Twenty Nine: Friends In High Places Update Thirty: Face Off Update Thirty One: Let's Gauge If We're Wheeling Through Update Thirty Two: Ask And Ye Shall Receive Update Thirty Three: Space Station Evermore Valley Update Thirty Four: Seriously, That's It? Update Thirty Five: The Final Battle For Evermore Simply Simon, An Actual Chemist, Explains If The Formulas Are Viable! .gifatars and Fan Art located here! We start with Explosionface, who is back to doing his usual thing! Explosionface posted:Oh, sure, act like you can boss me around and get some results. Explosionface posted:Are you sure that's really Viper Commander? Kheldarn posted:
Kheldarn posted:Happy (belated) birthday, DoubleNegative! Explosionface posted:I may have been sitting on a couple of these for a while... Kheldarn posted:Sadly, Toaster Dog doesn't lend itself to :toastertoot: as well as the other forms. Something Interesting! Shardix posted:Yeah, I remember that. I think this got linked as part of the discussion: http://rainwoodworks.blogspot.com/ There might be some minor spoilers in these, but if you're interested in the game and what it was (allegedly) supposed to be, check 'em out. Hell, check 'em out anyway, as they're pretty neat. Leave fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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Update One: Outta Of The Bijou, Into The Fire I don't have much to say here, folks, so let's just boogie on out.  Squaresoft did a lot of really good RPGs back in the SNES era.  I'm...I'm not sure what I'm looking at here.  And this doesn't clear anything up.    What do we name our main character? We've got lots of spaces to work with, but keep it to actual letters; I don't want to type out any ?, &, ', or anything like that when I'm typing out this guy's name. We'll do a couple of days for voting, and the name with the most votes is what we'll roll with.  The kid's a bit of a goon, including having a huge love for schlocky B-movies, and this seems like a goony name to start with.  We begin our story in some small town, in some state, in some small county, in America.  And nearly fifty-one years ago. Yeesh.   The Adventures of Loxley, eh?  In case you somehow missed that this is a way long time ago, here's a view of an American Main street way back when. Or if you're not familiar with this view of American culture. My town still kind of has a main street like this, but a lot of the older shops are closed up and not many things survived Wal-Mart and Meijer.    I've gotta say, I don't quite understand the old-school architecture of some places. Why were statues of people so prominent in their design? Is this considered Victorian? I honestly don't know.  I can picture this all too easily being said in a Resident Evil title. The mansion doesn't help things.   Do things in mansions ever end well? Seriously, there's Resident Evil, Clock Tower, Maniac Mansion, Sweet Home, Final Fantasy VII--Mansions seem like pretty terrible places to be in video games, especially if you're not the main character.    I don't have a good link for this one. There's this, but that looks like it sucked.  This Marty McFly lookin'-motherfucker is our protagonist. He's currently named Gregory, but we can change that, can't we?  And that's his dog. He currently has no name, but let's get a new name for the dog, too.  Yeah, he's into B-movies.  I'm willing to bet he's probably done some extensive write-ups on them. Or would, if he lived in today's world with unlimited access to the Internet.  Just imagine his VHS collection. Or his Laserdisc collection. He probably rebought all those titles on DVD, then Bluray, too.  But never mind that, the dog is running off!  Looking at that shop, is anyone else thinking of the bike shop from Diff'rent Strokes?   I don't think you're catching that cat, doggy.  You, uh, you missed completely where it was going.   I know my dog wouldn't go into that mansion, unless there were people there. Or maybe he would have; Tanner's a sweet dog, but he's only about as sharp as a celery stick.  Does it still count as breaking and entering if the door is open? Or is that merely trespassing?     We don't see any of this inside; we're just stuck outside while he and his dog run around this mansion.  I guess it's not a very big--  That's probably not good.  I'm sure Googling that only brings up this game, but I'm not going to risk it. That's someone's fetish, and I don't care to find out how they apply it.  Stop! Don't open that door!    Ah, nobody ever listens to that. Look, he even let the dog in.  Oh, shaddup. I know that's a poor joke; just enjoy the Resident Evil reference.  Don't expect him to stop with the movie references. He's seen waaaay too many.    C'mon, haven't you seen enough movies to know not to say that? Sheesh.  I sometimes don't understand dog's thought process in chewing on things. I've seen my dog take a Chapstick just to gnaw on it, and he didn't even get the cap off or anything. Just chewing on plastic.   No!!  ...Well, that's not--  I don't even get--  Well, that's cute.    And he's gone. On the upside, he didn't explode, so maybe he's still okay.   We might not be.   Must the future; everything looks to be chrome.   Good Lord, he has a chin you could hammer armor on.  Please don't kill us and store things in our body.  Uh, bub, look to--  Ah, now he's noticed him.   I don't even know where we are, man!   : He just told the last guy to pull up his pants and get out of his office. Come along.  : It's no one...No one at all! Continue with your work, Professor. That was...Odd, but whatever. Maybe the Prof is just absent-minded.   Thank you, Carltron.  Man, butlers have weird names.  Well, this is interesting.  Hey, we've got a health bar.  Not much health, but here's a chest to loot.  Well, heloooooo!   Cool! It's not typical that we get such cool toys in the beginning of an RPG.  Alright, first battle of the game, let's dance.   These enemies can't really hurt us, so we're in no real danger.  You might notice that under our health bar, a percentage is ticking up. That's a major part of the combat system; while not at 100%, we'll do much, much weaker attacks, hitting for a fraction of our usual damage. We can't go swinging around all willy-nilly; we'll have to dodge around enemies while waiting to recharge, otherwise we'll do so little damage, we'll be killed before we can hurt any enemies. There's another caveat to this, but I'll get to that later. Sometimes attacks change, such as shown here; we can only fire the bazooka when at 100%, otherwise we're just using it as a glorified club.   And the bazooka is pretty powerful when it hits an enemy.  Yeah, when I said we do fractions of our usual damage at less than 100%, I wasn't joking. We only did about fifty times more damage here than by just hitting them.  Before long, the other robot is dispatched, and we've won our first battle!  But with the fight won, where do we go from here?   And where the hell is our dog?  How convenient!  As long as it's not trying to eat your face, I think whatever's in here is okay.  Hey, cool! Let's--     How much worse could this day get?   ...Oh, that much worse.   But, hey, we made it out unscathed!  Though, our bazooka is toast.    If nothing else, I want the dog to be okay.   Sweet merciful crap!   I suppose this is our dog...I mean, we saw him shift into this form earlier.   But we'll throw dirt into his eyes to make sure. I guess.  My dog is just awful at fetch. Unless it's with one of his monkey dolls. He'll play with those all day, long after you've gotten tired.    Good Lord, he's in kill mode!  ...Is that a bone?  I don't even want to know where he got that from.  But it's our first melee weapon of the game. I'll take it. We might need it.  Let's worry about that next time. For now, I'm taking a break. And while we're on break, BOLD a vote for the boy's new name and what to name our dog! Take a few days to get it done; we're in no hurry here.
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Feb 23, 2016 06:54
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Oh, a SSLP of the one big SNES role playing game that I never played? Great! I've recently replayed the best Final Fantasy game, so I'm voting Shadow and Interceptor.
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Feb 23, 2016 07:11
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Let's be as America as we can be; we are Jack and our dog is Fido.
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Feb 23, 2016 07:15
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The only correct names are Shaggy and Scooby Also, the mummy, the balloon animal and the chainsaw are references to the lucasarts adventure game Maniac Mansion.
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Feb 23, 2016 07:21
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Jonny and Bandit. Are you going to show off the various glitches?
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Feb 23, 2016 07:26
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Leavemywife posted:In case you somehow missed that this is a way long time ago, here's a view of an American Main street way back when. Or if you're not familiar with this view of American culture. My town still kind of has a main street like this, but a lot of the older shops are closed up and not many things survived Wal-Mart and Meijer. Yeah, my podunk little town has a mostly functioning one, and it's literally Main Street, but it's only about four blocks total in size. It's actually a pretty big thing in this area to try to keep the old downtown areas intact.  As for names, I usually use my real name since I'm a dork in a little town that references movies constantly, but I'm going to I always liked this game, but there's a mechanic we'll get to shortly that always bugged part of me. e: vote changed to York and Zach Explosionface fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 07:38
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Bowser and Chain Chomp. (or just Chomp if Chain Chomp won't fit)
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Feb 23, 2016 08:24
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Jake and Bowser. This is a game I've never played and know nothing about, so I look forward to seeing how the game manages to top an already pretty bizarre opening.
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Feb 23, 2016 08:33
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NewMars posted:The only correct names are Shaggy and Scooby  NewMars posted:Also, the mummy, the balloon animal and the chainsaw are references to the lucasarts adventure game Maniac Mansion. And the entire sequence of "pushing buttons while out of sight and making things explode" reminds me of the first Monkey Island.
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Feb 23, 2016 09:21
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Nietzschean posted:Let's be as America as we can be; we are Jack and our dog is Fido. Changing my vote to this: NewMars posted:The only correct names are Shaggy and Scooby
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Feb 23, 2016 09:27
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When I was younger I tried and tried to play this game, but for whatever reason I was never able to progress past this first area. So I'm really curious to see where this game goes!
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Feb 23, 2016 11:56
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DoubleNegative posted:When I was younger I tried and tried to play this game, but for whatever reason I was never able to progress past this first area. So I'm really curious to see where this game goes! The first time I played Ocarina of Time, I was unable to get past the room in the Deku Tree where you have to light a torch with a Deku Stick. The idea that it's a thing I could do never occurred to me, and so there I remained stuck until I just gave up and never touched it again for a long time. Similar thing happened to me with Link to the Past, too, in the desert temple—I could not figure out how to deal with the entrance that has a beamos and a shut door. Kids can be dumb as hell, and you are not alone. 
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Feb 23, 2016 12:12
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The beginning of this game is hard as balls, you probably got stuck at one of the no less than three absolute roadblock bosses in the first section. I played the beginning a lot, and I'm glad that I persevered, because man this game owns. Fun fact: the German translation is sublime; Podunk town is called Großostheim in a wonderful localization effort. It's where Nintendo of Europe used to have their headquarters!
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Feb 23, 2016 12:58
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Oh man, I love this game!SMaster777 posted:Bowser and Chain Chomp. (or just Chomp if Chain Chomp won't fit) Bowser and Chain Chomp get my vote.
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Feb 23, 2016 15:47
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Some boy is constantly talking about the movies he's seen? I'm thinking this kid is a York. And of course his best friend is Zack. Isn't that right, Zack?
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Feb 23, 2016 17:05
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Edvarius posted:Some boy is constantly talking about the movies he's seen? I'm thinking this kid is a York. And of course his best friend is Zack.  I love this game. Getting the hack that lets you do two player fuckin ruled with my bro.
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Feb 23, 2016 18:05
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No story about a boy and his dog is complete without them being literally named Boy and Dog. No, I'm not going to go check the actual story to see if that's correct. I'm quite confident in the version of reality inside my head.
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Feb 23, 2016 19:03
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We all know the greatest guy-and-his-dog adventuring duo are Tintin and Snowy!
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Feb 23, 2016 20:00
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Name the boy Pete. Also name the dog Pete. As long as we're gorging on references to TV and movies we might as well have The Adventures of Pete & Pete.  14 year-old me will never stop being annoyed this game had so little in common with Secret of Mana, but I'm hoping current me will be better able to appreciate it now.
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Feb 23, 2016 20:54
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Nietzschean posted:Let's be as America as we can be; we are Jack and our dog is Fido.
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Feb 23, 2016 21:54
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Name the dog Bowser. I don't care about the boy's name.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:25
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I had an idea to do an LP of this with lots of updates being movie references. However, I am rather horrible at watching movies so... Shaggy and Scooby fit surprisingly well.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:27
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Finn and Jake Also, I should actually beat this game someday.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:45
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Leavemywife posted:I'm sure Googling that only brings up this game, Much to my disappointment. 
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Feb 23, 2016 23:46
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Leavemywife posted:I don't have a good link for this one. There's this, but that looks like it sucked. And also came out 8 years after this game. I love Secret of Evermore with an irrational love. And I'm voting for Edvarius' idea - name the boy York and the dog Zack.
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Feb 24, 2016 00:07
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I love this game, and I'm glad to see a few other people do, too. Can you believe this was the first game scored by Jeremy Soule? He was only 19... I find it very atmospheric.
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Feb 24, 2016 00:31
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Names are: Thelma & Louise Never played this one, so looking forward to this!
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Feb 24, 2016 01:02
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Oh man, Secret of Evermore, full of corny charm. It's a real hard call to say whether I like this or Secret of Mana more. I will jump on the Shaggy and Scooby 
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Feb 24, 2016 01:04
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A weird but really good game with a great (IMO) Jeremy Soule soundtrack. There's a lot of weird fan theories about this game; namely that a lot of fans think it was originally written to be far more dark/disturbing than it turned out to be. There's some weird stuff to sort of support that but no real hard evidence. Also it had a pretty interesting, fully animated commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu8wDAQuDk
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Feb 24, 2016 03:08
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Fabricated posted:A weird but really good game with a great (IMO) Jeremy Soule soundtrack. Wasn't this his very first soundtrack, too? Anyway, I never got past box-cover-boss, so I'll be keeping an eye on this. Good fun!
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Feb 24, 2016 03:26
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BlackArtistik posted:Finn and Jake This is one of my top-five favorite games of all time. I played this game to bits when I was a kid.
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Feb 24, 2016 03:51
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SMaster777 posted:Bowser and Chain Chomp. (or just Chomp if Chain Chomp won't fit) Zach/York If Bowser and Chomp have no hope near the end I'll switch to Shaggy and Scooby if I remember to edit my post. Edit: Vote changed to support team Deadly Premonition SystemLogoff fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 24, 2016 04:42
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Edvarius posted:Some boy is constantly talking about the movies he's seen? I'm thinking this kid is a York. And of course his best friend is Zack. This.
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Feb 24, 2016 04:49
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Name the Marty McFly lookin-motherfucker Morty and the dog Snowball.
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Feb 24, 2016 05:36
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Clearly our protagonist and fine product of the 90s is Dawg, and, well, his faithful hound only responds to "Here Boy", so he made it official.
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Feb 24, 2016 05:59
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Edvarius posted:Some boy is constantly talking about the movies he's seen? I'm thinking this kid is a York. And of course his best friend is Zack. Oh, my god. Yes. This.
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Feb 24, 2016 07:36
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York and Zach.
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Feb 24, 2016 07:37
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Glazius posted:Clearly our protagonist and fine product of the 90s is Dawg, and, well, his faithful hound only responds to "Here Boy", so he made it official. I was going to post this but it's already here so I'll just say that I agree with this.
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Marty and his dog Biff.
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