Author Topic: Exploding Barrels Mentioned On Wikipedia! (Read 8326 times)

Glorb · « **on:** May 06, 2006, 08:20:21 AM »

Exploding Barrels, the made-up game series by me, was mentioned on Wikipedia! On their article "List of fictional electronic games" (en.wikipedia.org//wiki/List_of_fictional_electronic_games), one of the games on the list was...

"the Exploding Barrels series of games and their increasingly bizarre sequels (such as Exploding Barrels 5 vs. The Legend of Zelda: In Space!), a series of in-jokes on the Fungi Forums."

Sadly, no one has made an article on EB, nor an article on the Fungi Forums, but this is still pretty cool.

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Mr. Wiggles · « **Reply #1 on:** May 06, 2006, 09:58:53 AM »

Heh, that's awesome. I love the fact that they also listed the Maddox games from the Video Games you'll never play article. Sadly, I don't think Wikipedia will let you create an article about the Exploding Barrels games since they don't really exist and it's a joke known only to us. I'm pretty sure Uncyclopedia would though, as long as it is incoherent, lacks continuity and includes a quote by Oscar Wilde.

Suffix · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2006, 11:50:45 AM »

Who made that article, I wonder?

Glorb · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2006, 12:47:20 PM »

Someone with a lot of time on their hands.

MaxVance · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2006, 02:42:28 PM »

Only trouble with making an article about TMK is that it would quickly be considered not notable.

MEGAß¥TE · « **Reply #5 on:** May 06, 2006, 02:57:21 PM »

And already was.

MaxVance · « **Reply #6 on:** May 06, 2006, 03:12:50 PM »

There used to be an article about TMK? Who made it?

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #7 on:** May 06, 2006, 09:14:27 PM »

Freakin' sweet!!! Errrr.....*ahem*. I mean, "congrats."

Glorb · « **Reply #8 on:** May 07, 2006, 07:08:10 AM »

But TMK is the awesomest thing ever invented since the G.I. Joe public service announcments! It'd be a crime against nature not to make an article about it! At the least they could make a small stub article about it (or Exploding Barrels).

Pt_Peach · « **Reply #9 on:** May 08, 2006, 01:16:18 PM »

Yay! Exploding Barrels will make it to the market one day. Just you all wait. This is all to wicked and FRIGGIN COOL!!! No need to be proper ^_^ :D. You guys know what? You can edit that article. Anyone can, but anyone can remove what you have put, too.

Glorb · « **Reply #10 on:** May 13, 2006, 06:24:30 PM »

I imagine the game will be a combination of Super Smash Bros., Grand Theft Auto, Tony Hawk, Fable, Metal Gear Solid, Black, Halo, EverQuest, and House of the Dead. In other words, a free-roaming massively-multiplayer first- and third-person roleplaying shooter/stealth game.

The Chef · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2006, 10:43:53 AM »

I once had an idea for a game similar to that. It was a mix of Action, Platforming, Adventure, RPG, Puzzle, Fighting, Shooting and Knitting. The game was supposed to star Mario, but now I'm having second thoughts....

Glorb · « **Reply #12 on:** May 17, 2006, 12:40:34 PM »

Sounds like my kinda game. Especially the knitting.

The Chef · « **Reply #13 on:** May 17, 2006, 04:30:47 PM »

I forgot that the game would also have unlockable Game&Watch remakes. All 60 of them.

Glorb · « **Reply #14 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:18:32 AM »

Don't forget the Hot Coffee!

The Chef · « **Reply #15 on:** May 25, 2006, 03:01:22 PM »

Never in a month of mondays....

I also forgot that the game would be part Racing. Silly me. :)

MEGAß¥TE · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2006, 12:26:48 PM »

http://planetgamecube.com/media.cfm?artid=1708&MedTID=1&medtndx=15

Glorb · « **Reply #17 on:** May 29, 2006, 09:57:28 AM »

Those plaigarists stole my idea!

The Chef · « **Reply #18 on:** May 29, 2006, 12:47:27 PM »

Those barrels really aren't exploding. They're being smashed up by a monkey in a hamster ball.

Glorb · « **Reply #19 on:** May 29, 2006, 03:15:59 PM »

Well you get the idea. If it explodes, or is a barrel, then it's my property. So therefore, I own the Barrel of Monkeys, and all explosive-related things.

G-Dawg · « **Reply #20 on:** May 31, 2006, 06:04:21 PM »

Should've got a patent for it.

Glorb · « **Reply #21 on:** June 03, 2006, 01:25:57 PM »

Patent shmatent. Steven Speilberg didn't patent anything, but he still makes darn good hotdogs. Mmm-mm.

BP · « **Reply #22 on:** June 03, 2006, 06:51:36 PM »

I'm rather honored to be part of a board that has become so famous. And to have made the box art for Death Kong, the Mario version of Exploding Barrels. Remember it?

The Chef · « **Reply #23 on:** June 04, 2006, 11:01:24 AM »

Whatever happened to Exploding Boxes?

Glorb · « **Reply #24 on:** June 10, 2006, 03:47:32 PM »

After the Exploding Shirts and Exploding Crates series came out, the Exploding Boxes series was never the same.

MaxVance · « **Reply #25 on:** June 10, 2006, 04:39:43 PM »

I'm still suprised that TMK isn't notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Fansites, however, are a hard subject to write about. Special care must be taken to make sure it's an encyclopedic article and not just a big ad.

The Chef · « **Reply #26 on:** June 10, 2006, 06:21:21 PM »

Maybe the site admin should be the one to write the article......?

G-Dawg · « **Reply #27 on:** June 13, 2006, 02:29:46 PM »

That would be a good idea...but which one? (If you can even do it.)

MaxVance · « **Reply #28 on:** June 13, 2006, 04:08:51 PM »

TMK still isn't notable enough. Fansites usually only get a passing mention on the page that they're a fan of, if even that.

The Chef · « **Reply #29 on:** June 13, 2006, 06:38:20 PM »

Sometimes they get placed in the 'External Links' section.

MaxVance · « **Reply #30 on:** June 13, 2006, 07:51:42 PM »

Yes, that's what I meant. But only the best fansites can be put there- too many and it's considered linkspam.

The Chef · « **Reply #31 on:** June 14, 2006, 01:21:01 PM »

...are you saying TMK isn't the best Mario fansite!?

G-Dawg · « **Reply #32 on:** June 14, 2006, 02:23:28 PM »

Say it isn't so!

BP · « **Reply #33 on:** June 14, 2006, 02:38:01 PM »

TMK is no fansite. It's a disciplesite.

MaxVance · « **Reply #34 on:** June 14, 2006, 03:02:34 PM »

I just noticed that TMK is linked to in Mario's article, only beaten by Super Mario Wiki (which I've never heard of) and Nintendo's official sites. However, this means TMK is only worthy of an External Links mention right now.

BP · « **Reply #35 on:** June 14, 2006, 03:10:59 PM »

Have you SEEN the Mario wiki? It SUCKS, BADLY. The place is lousy with inadequate discriptions, unstarted articles, stuff like that. Or at least it was last I checked.

The Chef · « **Reply #36 on:** June 14, 2006, 04:39:54 PM »

It still is. >_>

nensondubois · « **Reply #37 on:** June 17, 2006, 04:15:23 PM »

wow that is funny,but what about kids viewing it?

Glorb · « **Reply #38 on:** June 27, 2006, 02:39:38 PM »

Yeah, they definately need to fix it up. But still, we're linked on Wikipedia! That's like...like...the King of England letting us shine his shoes, or something!

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #39 on:** June 29, 2006, 06:32:04 PM »

Until you realize that Wikipedia is written by a bunch of normal Internet users.

MaxVance · « **Reply #40 on:** June 30, 2006, 07:43:45 AM »

But that means that one user thought we were good enough to be there and everyone else who went there thought we were good enough to stay there. It's still quite an honor.

MEGAß¥TE · « **Reply #41 on:** June 30, 2006, 05:17:56 PM »

Or... it could mean that somebody from here added it, and the article is too worthless for anybody to care enough to bother editing it out.