WordWolf

Normally I'd ask for more, but I don't care anymore. I thought we were going to see WordPup sign up just to answer the question or something. You're thinking of DANIEL RADCLIFFE, which is correct. Go, George!

"I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I don't exist." "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." "Mischief managed." "My eyes aren't 'glistening with the ghosts of my past!' " "Be brave, Professor. Be brave like my mother ... Otherwise, you disgrace her. Otherwise, she died for nothing. Otherwise, the bowl will remain empty ... forever." "You betrayed my parents! You're the reason they're dead!" "Don't worry. My dad will come. He'll conjure the Patronus. Any minute now. Right there. You'll see." "Expecto patronum!" "He's back! He's back! Voldemort's back! Cedric, he asked me to bring his body back. I couldn't leave him-- not there!" "Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself. Think of it this way; every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now: students. If they can do it, why not us?" "All students must be equipped with... a one standard size two pewter cauldron, and may bring, if they desire, either an owl, a cat, or a toad. Can we find all this in London?" "Not to be rude or anything, but this isn't a great for me to have a house-elf in my bedroom."

WordPup stopped in and got it from the first quote.

Not even FF 7? That set a record for sales, and was advertised up the yin-yang!

Definitely recognizable from one line! "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," Simon and Garfunkel. I wonder how Art Garfunkel and John Oates are these days.

Police Squad! In Color!

"I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I don't exist." "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." "Mischief managed." "My eyes aren't 'glistening with the ghosts of my past!' " "Be brave, Professor. Be brave like my mother ... Otherwise, you disgrace her. Otherwise, she died for nothing. Otherwise, the bowl will remain empty ... forever." "You betrayed my parents! You're the reason they're dead!" "Don't worry. My dad will come. He'll conjure the Patronus. Any minute now. Right there. You'll see." "Expecto patronum!"

He's definitely a man.

So, we have a game show, a cast of 26 plus a host plus some kind of antagonist we normally don't see. The gameplay is pretty straightforward, but the show's time is padded out with a lot of style. It's around the world, and a video game was made of the show.

"Now do you think you can beat The Champ?" "I can take him blindfolded." "What if he's not blindfolded?" "I can still beat him." "I'd just come from the stockyards. We'd gotten reports of hundreds of cows had been senselessly slaughtered in the area, but I couldn't find any evidence. I stopped off for a hamburger and checked in with headquarters." "Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith." "There'd been a recent wave of gorgeous fashion models found naked and unconscious in laundromats on the West Side. Unfortunately, I was assigned to investigate holdups of neighborhood credit unions. I was across town doing my laundry when I heard the call on the double killing. It took me twenty minutes to get there. My boss was already on the scene." "Cigarette?" "Yes, I know." "It took me two weeks to find Stella's apartment. She had neglected to give me her address." "Is this some kind of bust?" "Yes, it's very impressive, but we'd just like to ask a few questions."

That's it.

"Ok, next question. This one has nothing to do with sports." Ah, a football game would have had SOMETHING to do with sports. When Square Soft was pretty new, they were about to go broke. They took one last chance- they made an RPG. Those are the games with the characters, stats, levels, with the characters in a party. Computer RPGs resemble tabletop RPGs, pencil and paper RPGs. They made one last game, and called it "FINAL Fantasy." It took off, and Square became known for their quality JRPGs- Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Beyond the Beyond, Legend of Legaia, Romancing Saga, Shadow Madness, Grandia, Valkyrie Profile, etc. They're best known for the Final Fantasy series. The supposed sequel to the game is "Final Fantasy 2"- which makes no sense. As each number went up, it made less sense. That series started on the NES, went through the SNES, and then the Playstations, through the current one, as well as PC versions of the games. Many, many people have played at least ONE of the "Final Fantasy" games, despite having never seen "Final Fantasy" and possibly never knowing anything about it other than it was an early RPG. For the record, the first game for the Sony Playstation that really took off was "Final Fantasy 7." At the time, it was the 4th FF game to make it to the US market. FF 4 and FF 6 had been renumbered "FF 2" and "FF 3" accordingly. Later, the missing games were released in pairs for the Playstation. There have been movies as well as all sorts of games, and the franchise is still selling well.

Final Fantasy.

Some home video games are more famous than others, and some video game companies are more famous than others. In the 1980s, a new video game company was teetering on the brink of non-existence. They did a "Hail Mary" pass, where they worked on one game-an early RPG- and if it tanked, the company was probably going to fold, and a man who later became known for video game soundtrack composing would have left that field. They titled the video game accordingly. Sales for the game took off, and catapulted the company into the spotlight. They made many other home video games afterwards, including a number of my favorite RPGs , for a number of home console formats and PCs. Among the video games they made was a considerable number that would appear to be sequels- despite most of them having no connection to the games numbered before them nor after them. That series is incredibly famous among home video games, and well-known across different platforms. (Fans of the "series" all have their own favorites, and may not be interested in many of the others in the "series.") The names are excellent marketing despite that- although an argument can be made that virtually all of them have titles that make no sense- except for the original. They're still making these games, and one was released in 2023 and another in 2024. (For the curious, the original company is still making them- although they had a merger with Enix in the decades since they started, and that's obvious from the current name of the company.) I'm looking for the name of the first game, the one that started the franchise, that saved the fledgling company, that is famous despite most of the people who've heard of it never having played it or possibly even SEEN it.

The home version they released was in 1975. You are correct that it doesn't meet the requirements of the answer. But you've probably heard this game's name in the decades since it was released.

"Hi, HO! Hi, HO! Hi, ho, hi, ho, it's off to work we go."

Wild swing here.... "An Officer and A Gentleman"?????

Jon Stewart Elijah Wood Louis Black Danny Masterson Summer Phoenix Usher Bebe Neuwirth Piper Laurie Famke Janssen Salma Hayek Josh Hartnett Clea DuVall Jordana Brewster

"Well, I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

"War of the Worlds."

Of course! Your turn, George!

"Fool on the Hill," the Beatles.

Next round. This is a game show that lasted for several seasons, on different channels, and even spawned a video game based on gameplay. The actual gameplay was pretty straightforward, but a lot of the show's success was based not on the gameplay, but on STYLE. The gameplay for an entire episode could be over in less than 5 minutes, but we padded it out with responses from the audience, with feedback from family members there to support the player, and with the show's unseen antagonist occasionally doing something unexpected in the game area. In at least a few episodes, we saw the show's antagonist very clearly and got to hear them. That was because they got permission to exchange the antagonist for DARTH VADER, and there's no reason to include him if you can't see or hear him. The rest of the show's cast also got a wardrobe change for those episodes, as well (all 26 of them), although the host kept his suits.

"The spice must flow."

"I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I don't exist." "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." "Mischief managed." "My eyes aren't 'glistening with the ghosts of my past!' " "Be brave, Professor. Be brave like my mother ... Otherwise, you disgrace her. Otherwise, she died for nothing. Otherwise, the bowl will remain empty ... forever."