BONUS ROUND 3

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Bonus Round 3

Retro Gaming

Hi shippers! Welcome to Bonus Round 3.
In this round, you'll be creating fanworks based on video and computer games from before 2000!

Rules

1. Choose a game that was released before 2000, and post a fanwork based on the game in some way. Make sure to use the appropriate title format (see below). Examples include: character inserts, rewritten dialogue, costume redesigns, alternate soundtracks, theme song covers, photoshopped promo art, etc.


2. Your fill should not be focused on Homestuck characters playing the game--the point of this round is to make a crossover.


3. For this challenge, you are allowed to submit fills based on your team ship. You don't have to, of course!


4. For this challenge, there is no minimum wordcount. We are trusting you not to abuse that fact!


5. This challenge will run until 11:59PM EDT July 21. After that time, even if it's just by a minute according to the timestamp, no submissions will be accepted for points.

Title Format
Please use this format in your title.
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] - [GAME TITLE] ([YEAR RELEASED])
Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.
If your team name is not in this format and in the title we cannot guarantee that it will be counted.
Replace [GAME TITLE] and [YEAR RELEASED] as appropriate.

Posts not using this format in the title will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, no matter what they contain. They, like all comments on the comm, are subject to the Wank Policy.

Scoring
(as stated here)
First 5 entries per team: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+: 5 (per entry)

All content must be created new for this round.

We would prefer that any questions about this challenge or anything else in the HSO be emailed to us at homestuck.shipping AT gmail!

Comments

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN <3 ROXY - PUNCH-OUT!! (1987)

[loudmouthseth]

FILL: TEAM [ERIDAN <3< SOLLUX] - [TETRIS] (1985)

[faeriearmy]

http://pajarotatuaje.tumblr.com/post/26775100269/bonus-round-three-entry-for

for team dirk<3jake<3jane<3roxy uwu

Re: FILL: TEAM [ERIDAN <3< SOLLUX] - [TETRIS] (1985)

[wallwalker]

Wow. Those pieces are NOT in a good position, which... actually kind of fits where the kids are right now. Well played. :D

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI - SILENT HILL 1 (1999)

[megaparsecs]

the time is nigh.
EVERYONE WILL BE RELEASED FROM PAIN AND SUFFERING.
our salvation is at hand.
THIS IS THE DAY OF MOTHERFUCKING RECKONING.
honk
HONK.

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI - SILENT HILL 1 (1999)

[plushi]

I IM CRYIGN ITS PERFECT

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3SOLLUX - CRASH TEAM RACING (1999)

[rawrimamidget]

jesus take the wheel >u>

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3SOLLUX - CRASH TEAM RACING (1999)

[mr2bonclay]

OMG THE MAP IS HELLA JEFF'S FACE THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

FILL: TEAM Karkat<3Karkat - [Fallout] (1997)

[doubleohally]

Featuring: Karkat.

“I’m not sure why this keeps happening,” you grumble loudly to yourself, “first they tell me to get out of my own home so I can get something for the water. Sure, I guess that makes sense; but then I come here and they want me to go kill a bunch of radscorpions. Okay, what’s even worse is the fact I’m doing it.”

You have your gun by you side and your knife in your hand. Nothing is going to take you by surprise. You keep walking and eventually you make it to the caves, yes this looks very inviting. Not. You are extremely mad, you just want to find what you need and get back home; but you feel bad for these people.

You slowly make your way into caves and you immediately spot a huge one, huge. You aim your gun and before the slow thing can even get to you, it’s dead. Making your way through the rest of the cave is a breeze and you only curse a few profanities. There was a total of, maybe, five of them in whole. These villagers need to pull the stick out of their ass.

You make your way back to the village and try not to flip the lady off when she starts screeching about putting your weapons away.

FILL: TEAM ARADIA <> SOLLUX - PACMAN (1980)

[stellarbird]

> Aradia: Make her pay.

Re: FILL: TEAM ARADIA <> SOLLUX - PACMAN (1980)

[slippy]

SO COOL.

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE - FAXANADU (1987)

[wallwalker]

[Ficlet, Homestuck/Faxanadu Future AU crossover. John<3Karkat. Sadstuck. Tagged for blood, body horror, major character death.]

---

John straightens up and puts his hammer away, breathing hard. It had been the toughest fight John had been through yet, and he nearly hadn't been able to do it... but now it's over. Finally.

Except that it isn't, not really. The monster he'd been fighting was gone, but now Karkat's lying on the ground in front of him, panting hard.

John swallows. "Hey," he says, lamely.

"Hey," the troll says, his body shrinking, his wings contracting back into his flesh, his massive jagged horns shrinking back to tiny nubs. "Fuck me, you made it. You actually fucking made it."

"Of course I made it," he said, and tried to smile. "I had a lot of friends."

"Yeah, well, it couldn't have been fucking easy, could it? English put everything he could between you an' him. Fuck, our entire species got changed into these... these things." He grimaced. He was breathing hard, now, and you could see an awful lot of red blood. "We shoulda killed him when we had the chance. He's too... too powerful now, though. Way too fucking powerful for us. He's figured out what goes on inside of us, and he can change us."

"Shhh," John says, and reflexively tries to kneel down beside him - he imagines that it's what Nic Cage would do in any of his movies, try to comfort the dying enemy who wasn't really an enemy at all anymore, who'd been used just like everyone else -

"Don't fucking touch me," he snaps, then when John rears back he sighs. "Fuck. Sorry. Just... I'm afraid he's gonna get his hooks back into me an' drive me outta my mind again. Not sure why I'm not... fuck, this hurts...."

"There's gotta be something I can do!" John argues, anguished. He'd known that he was going to have to fight a bunch of his old friends.

"You could calm the fuck down and talk to me for a bit," Karkat snaps back. "Fuck, why did they ever let me be the leader... all of my asshole friends are dead, John, or else you wouldn't be here. Terezi, Nepeta, Gamzee, that asshole Sollux... fuck, all of 'em said they'd keep me safe, and now..." He swallowed hard. "Tell me you didn't make 'em suffer, okay? Just... tell me that. I don't care if it's fucking true or not -"

"It IS true," John interrupts. "Some of them were my friends too, and even if they weren't... well, I didn't want to hurt them, you know?" He still remembers. Still remembers recognizing Vriska's screech as the winged beast swooped down on him. Still remembers the pain on Dave's voice on his earpiece when he said that he'd know those red eyes anywhere, fuck, you've gotta make it quick.

He always has. Until now.

Karkat nods. "Good," he says. "Thanks, for what it's worth." He looks back up at John. "Second favor, okay. You've gotta... do the same for me."

"But you're you again! If we can find a way to -"

"No. I am NOT fucking me again, I'm maybe five minutes away from being a snarling monsterous asshole once English decides to pay attention, and anyway you need to listen to me," he snaps, then stops, coughing up blood. He wipes it away absently with the back of his hand. "Look, there's only one thing that'll stop him, okay? Old relic from before the asshole came, from our former planet's guardian. And I've... got it, but you're gonna have to kill me to get it. It's inside of me, it's part of my blood, he didn't know it was there and can't touch it while I'm alive, which is the only reason he doesn't have it yet. But you're here, and I want you to... to take it. While I'm still myself. Please."

"Karkat..." John blinks back tears. He knows from experience what Karkat will say if he sees them. "I'll miss you."

"Yeah," he says. "Yeah. Just... make it quick, like you did for them. And, well... thanks, asshole. You'd better fucking stop him before he kills all of us, now, got it?"

"Got it." John forces a smile and kneels down next to his old... friend? Enemy? He really wasn't sure, sometimes. Either way, it seems the least he can do, to stab him where whatever trolls call their heart was, and hold his clawed hand until it's over.

He wants to turn away, but he can't. He needs to make sure that he gets whatever it is Karkat made him do this to get - wait, isn't that it? Yes, somewhere in the blood he can see it forming, an odd little thing. Looks like a cue ball, almost.

John gives Karkat's hand one final squeeze - it's not for Karkat, and he knows it, but he can't help himself - and stands up, looking at the oddly clean cue ball. This was the thing that was going to save them all? It's hard to believe, but Karkat wouldn't have done this if it hadn't been important, right?

He looks up, then, up at the highest skyscraper, the old seat of government. Lord English - the alien that had fallen from the sky - was up there somewhere. It's time to finish this, John decides, once and for all. He just hopes he can figure out what to do with this stupid ball. Maybe one of his friends can tell him.

"Thanks, Karkat," he says, although he can't bring himself to look back before he sets off.

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE - FAXANADU (1987)

[ilyat]

Oh my god, someone actually picked Faxanadu. You have no idea how happy it makes me that someone else actually has heard of/played this game.

FILL: TEAM [Karkat<3Karkat] - [Legend Of Mana] ([1999])

[doubleohally]

Your name is ARADIA MEGIDO, and boy are you excited. Ever since you woke up and Sproutlings were in your front yard you’ve had some great adventures, and you know you’ll have more. They gave you blocks that turned into the city of Domina, you were so happy. Living in your house with nothing to do was boring. You met a rabbit named Nicolo, he sort of ripped you off, but he gave you things that lead to more places. You loved new places. After that you helped a man named Elazul find a girl named Pearl. He was really rude, but he was probably just worried.


You heard some hype about scary pumpkins, with any luck maybe they’ll be like man eating pumpkins…what an adventure!


“Mwwahahaha!” you hear a boy with a funny accent laugh, what a funny laugh.


“Eridan! Stop laughing!” a girl hissed at him.


“Feferi, you and I wwill rule the world! All those pathetic beings wwill boww before us! Let’s gloat. MWWAHAHAHA.”


“Rule the world with pumpkins, as if,” she rolled her eyes at him.


“Hey you! Boww before me,” he spots you, they seem young but you can’t just let them rule the world.


About five minutes later and they’re asking if they can be your apprentices, and what can you say but yes.

Re: FILL: TEAM [Karkat<3Karkat] - [Legend Of Mana] ([1999])

[uki_la_maid]

THIS IS PERFECTION

PURE, UNADULTERED PERFECTION.

Can I kiss you????

FILL: Team Nepeta<3Terezi- Donkey Kong (1981)

[fraymotif]

Re: FILL: Team Nepeta<3Terezi- Donkey Kong (1981)

[2xknifekind]

THIS IS TOO PERFECT I'M GONNA CRY

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE - THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (1986)

[wallwalker]

Something silly to make up for earlier.




[Gamzee: (Offers Karkat a shitty sword in some weird cave somewhere.) IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS.
Karkat: (Unimpressed) WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS]

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE - THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (1986)

[fraymotif]

im so glad somebody made this joke

FILL: TEAM BRO<3DAD - PUZZLE BOBBLE 4 (1998)

[uki_la_maid]

Wow, what a clusterfuck...

Anyways, I don't know how many of you guys are familiar with Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move, but, anh, yeah. This is Bro and Dave, in the style of two characters form the 4th game (Marino and Kurol *which only yesterday I found out was a girl, oh well...* respectively) and they are in space, with bubbles.

I swear I'm not high nor wasn't when I made this. The game is THAT non-sense.

FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY - MS. PAC-MAN (1981)

[pyrokineticvampire]

Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY - MS. PAC-MAN (1981)

[paradoxcase]

Ahh, yes, this is perfect.

FILL: TEAM [Karkat<3Karkat] - [Final Fantasy IV] ([1991])

[doubleohally]

Re: FILL: TEAM [Karkat<3Karkat] - [Final Fantasy IV] ([1991])

[axiom_of_stripe]

hah, yes! very nice. :)

FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3KARKAT - Metroid (1986)

[janeybriggs]

FILL: TEAM [Karkat<3Karkat] - [Parappa The Rapper] ([1996])

[doubleohally]

Re: FILL: TEAM [Karkat<3Karkat] - [Parappa The Rapper] ([1996])

[daemon_sheep]

This is literally the best thing ever omfg

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3FEFERI - THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (1986)

[hauteclare]

The Legend of Rose
someone beat me to it, but ah well this was pretty fun to make haha! NOW ON TO MORE

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3FEFERI - THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (1986)

[wallwalker]

Oh, little Jaspersprite is so adorable. This is so cute. :D

FILL: TEAM [TEREZI<3VRISKA] - [PAC-MAN] ([1980])

[skaiasthelimit]

Re: FILL: TEAM [TEREZI<3VRISKA] - [PAC-MAN] ([1980])

[chronologicalimplosion]

NO HOW CAN THIS EVEN MY FEELS.

YOU.

UGH EVERY LITTLE DETAIL OF THIS IS SO PERFECT AND I HATE YOU FOR IT.

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX - FINAL FANTASY 7 ([1997])

[kephra]

Link due to profanity.
Davesprite =)

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX - FINAL FANTASY 7 ([1997])

[2xknifekind]

can i please love you this is legitimately my favorite one so far

Re: FILL: TEAM [Karkat<3Karkat] - [Pokemon Red] ([1996])

[beblueberry]

I don't know if FireRed counts, even if you have it listed as Pokemon Red.

FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3KARKAT - Barbie (1984)

[janeybriggs]

Re: FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3KARKAT - Barbie (1984)

[2xknifekind]

i'm gonna cry

FILL: TEAM JADE<3KARKAT - TALES OF DESTINY (1998)

[sakiexcel]

(If anyone knows the characters, this is: John as Stahn, Karkat as Rutee, Gamzee as Mary, Dave as Leon, Jade as Philia, and Rose as Garr)

Re: FILL: TEAM JADE<3KARKAT - TALES OF DESTINY (1998)

[playerprophet]

PERFECT OH MY GODDDDDDD

FILL: TEAM DIRK<3ROXY - DIABLO (1996)

[2xknifekind]

It's quiet save for the sound of ghouls and monsters in the background. The peace that seems to have settled after the ensuing battle pierces you, as you stare at the bones of your brother. Or, who used to be your brother -- he'd been long gone before  you had ever had the chance to save him: The Skeleton Prince.

You could still see some of the rotted flesh peeling off his skin.

Roxy stood off to the side. And while you and she never knew each other well, you knew that she had loved him dearly. You take her shoulder, but you don't disturb her at all past that -- the tears rolled down her cheeks, but even you couldn't help them

You then leave for awhile, so that she can be alone with the body of her beloved. And, let's admit: even you needed time to grieve. Stabbing the undead corpse of your older brother was traumatizing enough to fit right in with a therapist's wet dream.

It was fifteen minutes later when you returned, and you know that she's now calmed herself. Dirk's bony hand is still holding the black flag with the purple emblem of Derse emblazoned on it, and you can see now that Roxy has placed his bones much more elegantly than the splayed form he had died in.

You're still trying not to remember the maddened craze he had been in before death.

"We should go soon," you say quietly. The lilt in your voice is slightly more prominent due to your own grief, but that doesn't matter right now. "Rose is still in danger. We have to go save her before Diablo finishes his possession of her body."

Rose, being your twin sister and the current host of the Lord of Terror.

"Yeah," Roxy says in response, however much more quietly. Her voice is still shaking -- and, as she approaches, you can tell she still is herself, too. "But first we're bathing. Ain't rescuin' no princess without some nice n' dandy clothins', now am I?"

That brings a slight smile to your face, but only slightly.

"Diablo isn't waiting for bathing time for the heroes of failure, nor is Tristram, and neither is my Sis. Get ready to leave in five minutes; we're not taking any detours." You lift your sword up onto your shoulder and sigh, having long lost the ability to joke around with this stupid little 'adventure' that'd already gotten a lot of the people you cared most about in danger or killed.

Roxy makes some sort of a makeshift smile as she downs one of her many 'potions' and relaxes ever so slightly. "Yeah, yeah, I know, Dave. She's like a daughter to me; I won't leave her hanging."

You hoped not.

FILL: TEAM Alpha!Dave<3Alpha!Rose - OGRE BATTLE (1993)

[spandexrex]

Re: FILL: TEAM Alpha!Dave<3Alpha!Rose - OGRE BATTLE (1993)

[chronologicalimplosion]

This is great. This is really great. Funny in that punch-in-the-gut way that things shouldn't be allowed to be.

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX - FROGGER ([1981])

[kephra]

http://s19.postimage.org/bgr3htixt/froggercover.png

http://s19.postimage.org/svbbq3g2p/froggerplay.png

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX - FROGGER ([1981])

[chronologicalimplosion]

The links are still broken themselves; it's not just the formatting.

If you're having a lot of issues, might I suggest a different image host? Try imgur, maybe. Or you could post it on your tumblr and link to it.

(Seriously, though, I really want to see the art that beat me to posting Frogger by, like, three seconds.)

FILL: TEAM Roxy<3Dirk - Frogger (1981)

[chronologicalimplosion]

Timeline 1.0
She has come to accept that the voices move in strange ways, that questioning them is not an option and it only ever works to fulfill the fate she is trapped to. Usually more painfully. She is 0kay with this. But the mess of sharp crystals and moving gears before her is intimidating. It looks like the kind of thing that, while it cannot truly kill her when she is dead already, could very easily crush her body with the wrong move. True, she could maneuver through it far more easily as a sprite, but she also didn't fancy attempting to play through the rest of the game without a corporeal body, and even with control over Time, they couldn't really afford the time or resources needed to build another one.

The voices told her to go, that it would be okay, but she missteped early on and was crushed in the second row of gears, metal between metal. With the last of her energy, she spun her way backwards so that her crushed metallic corpse would be a warning, then made the way with the rest of her to the endgame.

Timeline 1.05
She already had a fair deal of trepidation, and then there is what is definitely a dead her in the workings of the colossal music box. Her too-strong-then-not-there-at-all emotions do strange things, but she wills them away. She needs to be a sprite now. Needs to be a sprite in so many ways, but since she's going to need to be a robot in the future, all she can have is mental spritedom. A not-so-quiet ribbit tears itself out of her throat before she launches in.

She makes it almost to the end of the first row of gears, and then she follows in the footsteps of her sister self.

Timeline 1.2
By analyzing the mistakes she made before, by listening to the voices and taking opportunities as soon as they present themselves, she makes it all the way past the first cluster of gears this time. Makes it to a temporary rest, and then there's an imp, unexpected, and it distracts her and disorients her and she's unprepared. She stumbles forward to attack it, and she misses, and her momentum carries her on, and then, yet again, she is crushed.

Timeline 1.3
Enough with the same death, now. She is careful of the gears--all of them--and the various other moving bits of machine. What she never considers is that gears come flush against things other than other gears sometimes, and while holding onto a safe spot for a bit too long, she becomes crushed between the gear and the wall.

Timeline 1.5
It's really not that long of a stretch to traverse, though all of the bodies make it seem like miles. So long as she pays complete attention to her surroundings and not anyone else, it's not that hard.

At least, that's what she thinks until she realizes that this player piston, still for so long, is apparently not still because it's been left out of the song. She really should know better, living in the land of Quartz and Melody, but the sudden dip was too much and she lost her grip and plummeted to her death.

Timeline 1.6
Time travel usually only makes things more complicated. Apparently gear-jumping is no exception.

Timeline 1.9
There it is. Right in her sight, the exit hole she's been aiming for for she-doesn't-want-to-know-how-many doomed timelines. All she has to do is jump from the last piston to the little alcove, and then she can progress again like she always had. Leave this mess behind her.

Her footing slips, as she jumps, and she finds herself impaled on a spike of quartz crystal.

Timeline 2.0
The voices are telling her to go, so she really should go. But there are robotic parts and mangled copies of herself strewn around the clockwork before her, and maybe it's just her robotic heart at work, but she does not want to go any farther. Let the voices and her accompanying fate do what they will to her, nothing can be worse than being stuck in a death loop like that, hopelessly throwing herself at the machine again and again until something finally breaks.

She's willing to break first, will-wise, if it means she doesn't have to break anymore.

So she stands and stares for a while, entranced as her own personal clockwork is brushed aside by the movements of the giant clockwork before her, doubtless falling to the pit below. Machine versus machine, and her little insignificant form is never going to make a dent in the intricate monstrosity she's up against.

After a long, timeless while, she has a moment of brilliance. Detaching herself from the artificial limbs and heart to be her blood-colored spriteself again, she captchalogues the robotic prosthetic and floats easily though the deadly maze. She'll miss it for a while, she thinks, but the spirits will let her have it again when she needs it--in one piece.

Re: FILL: TEAM Roxy<3Dirk - Frogger (1981)

[axiom_of_stripe]

wow, this is amazing! i love it!