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Puzzler: Before and After
Jayhenningsen
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Tags: Puzzle

I've taken pairs of video games and mixed their plots together. What makes these mash-ups unique is that the end of one game name forms the beginning of the next.

Here's an example for you using movie titles instead of video games:

Plot: A human-looking robot is sent back from the future to help scientists and soldiers, who are holed up in a bunker in Florida, fight the hordes of zombies who have taken over the United States

Answer: Terminator 2: Judgment Day of the Dead

Can you decipher the titles to the rest of these video game mash-ups? I've given you blank spaces as an added hint.

 

1) A spherical yellow character with a large mouth traverses a maze and executes people in gruesome ways.
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2) A mustachioed plumber flies through the skies of Azeroth with his magic cape, completes quests, and battles The Horde.
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3) A rocker uses his axe and magic guitar to battle through eight dungeons in an attempt to rescue the princess and save Hyrule.
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4) Explore a mansion while shooting hordes of zombies and play volleyball against buxom, bikini-clad opponents.
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5) Control a white-haired, sword-wielding demon hunter as you explore an alien ship on an island off the coast of the Philippines.
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6) Help your beam-katana-wielding assassin take on fantasy armies in classic turn-based strategy action.
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7) Control Fei Fong Wong and his friends as they pilot huge robots through a war-torn world and battle the Locust Horde in this epic RPG/FPS.
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8) Swap colored blocks to form horizontal or vertical lines while controlling one of 45 different heroes in frantic multiplayer RTS action.
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9) Play as a paranormal investigator who uses fire to battle demonic forces and later flies through the air with a jetpack fighting aliens.
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10) Defend your cities against incoming missiles while fighting a ground war against the Brotherhood of Nod.
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(Click here for the answer key.)

 
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Comments (7)
Bgs
February 08, 2010
Excellent game, and very creative combos you thought up. Got most, though some stumped me (and I was thrown off by the "Xtreme" because I was trying to add the E and it messed with the number of blank spaces).
Me
February 08, 2010
Great game. My favorite ones were 6 and 9.
Photo-3
February 08, 2010
What a creative puzzle. I didn't do as well as I hoped.
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February 09, 2010
Thank you for making me realize just how big of a geek I am. I think I'm going to go outside or something now.
Default_picture
February 09, 2010
5. Wasn't it Korea?

Great and creative combos, I just might want to consider wanting those games to exist. Except 4.
Jayhenningsen
February 09, 2010
@Kevin - The Korean government gets involved, but the game identifies it as being in the Philippine Sea. To further confuse the issue, there is a real Lingshan Island in the South China Sea.
Dan__shoe__hsu_-_square
February 09, 2010
This was so awesome! A certain other zombies-in-mansions game threw me off of #4, though.
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