I remember altering the original DOOM to let me fight Barney
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Hell yeah, I remember my dad picking up that on a free floppy disk from a game store in the mall.
I had a modded version that made it all characters from The Tick
I killed Barney, so don't bother.
🎶I hate you,
you hate me,
We're a totally fucked up family!🎶
Hmm, I’ve always known it as:
Let’s get together and kill Barney
I hate you
You hate me
Lets chase barney up a tree
With a big fat shotgun
Shot him in the head
Now we're glad barney is dead.
Our version was slightly different at the end:
With a big fat gun
And a bullet in his head
Aren't you glad that fuckers dead
I remember that, I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Cringey nerdy shit, in hindsight.
My first mod I ever installed turned some of the monsters in DOOM to Barney
Reminds me of the days when I accessed Tim Barners-Lee original server at CERN.
I was hoping it would end with🎵clean up, clean up🎵the corpses
Lol.
I'll file this under "Things I Haven't Seen Or Thought About In 25 Years".
Blast from the past.
I only read your title and the first thing that came to mind was the Jihad to Destroy Barney on the World Wide Web. Shit was lit when I was like 15.
I was in my mid-20s when Barney first aired. So many of my friends were having kids, so Barney was on at their houses frequently. He was hard to avoid sometimes and it was awful.
I was a teenager and had two younger siblings who were obsessed with it. I remember getting in trouble for hiding one of their VHS tapes.
Anyone ever play the old BBS Door/DOS game BarneySplat?
I did, right next to another one called Cripple Smash? Something like that. It was some line in the 206 area code.
My local BBS didn't have it so i played in local mode.
BBS time was reserved for LORD and reading Fidonet flame wars lol
In 19 nindee something, my niece was watching Barney during one of my "babysitting" sessions and out of the blue she told me she wanted to go to the potty so I picked her up and carried her to the bathroom.
While she was in there taking care of business, I started to smell something foul and then I looked down at my clothes and saw a neon green chunk of something, approximately rectangular in shape with some greenish coating on it.
What the fuck ya'll. WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCK???
I'm still nearly gagging thinking of it and the smell. If you could multiply the worst smelling shit you've ever taken by the smell of a rotten deer by the side of the road you'd still only be 33% of the way to how that green stuff smelled. And I'm certain it came from my niece.
So what the fuck was that? WHAT THE FUCK WAS IT?
The way you said 1990 is infuriating, so much that nothing after what you wrote was even read by me. I'm sorry, but I hope that someone makes a similar website for you.
The Kaiser stole our number 90.
It's a crossover between Nine Inch Nail and Dee Snider
I think I spotted the protagonist.
Bile maybe? But that's dark green.
Was JavaScript even a thing in 1994? Certainly flash wasn’t. I wonder what this looked like. I remember text websites with the lynx browser.
Here is the site: https://impressive.net/games/barney/fun.cgi
It uses the isMap image element to send the coordinates of where you clicked on the image and then returns an updated image created by the server.
Oh nice thanks. So it uses what we used to call cgi and server side image generation. Not bad for 1994.
I'd say highly impressive for 1994
I used to check out the coffee pot at the U of Cambridge.