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====== Red Alert ====== | ====== Red Alert ====== | ||
- | The games Command & Conquer: Red Alert, by Westwood, and its sequel Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, by EA, are both quite culturally influential on the board. Running jokes and tie-ins are often based on them, in particular by such members as [[LordInsane]], | + | The games Command & Conquer: Red Alert, by Westwood, and its sequel Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, by EA, are both quite culturally influential on the board. Running jokes and tie-ins are often based on them, in particular by such members as [[LordInsane]], |
==== Facts Deduced About the Red Alert Series ==== | ==== Facts Deduced About the Red Alert Series ==== | ||
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* Yuri's Magic Telephone is the best explanation in any 'US invaded' | * Yuri's Magic Telephone is the best explanation in any 'US invaded' | ||
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+ | * The Hellmarch theme is perhaps the ultimate backing to any montage of scenes showing an invasion. It was even suggested as a soundtrack to the Return of the Noldor in //The Silmarillion// | ||
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==== Quotes bastardised for AH.com usage ==== | ==== Quotes bastardised for AH.com usage ==== | ||
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=== From Red Alert 1 === | === From Red Alert 1 === | ||
- | Einstein: Time vill tell. Zooner or later, time vill tell. | + | Einstein: Time vill tell. Zooner or later, time vill tell. |
Kane: The foreseeable future...? Comrade Chairman, I AM the future! | Kane: The foreseeable future...? Comrade Chairman, I AM the future! | ||
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=== From Red Alert 2 === | === From Red Alert 2 === | ||
- | Romanov: | + | Romanov: |
Dugan: I don't give a wooden nickel about your legacy! You call them off! | Dugan: I don't give a wooden nickel about your legacy! You call them off! | ||
- | Romanov: The little | + | Romanov: The little |
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+ | ==== Tiberian X ==== | ||
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+ | Less frequently mentioned is the other C&C game continuity (insert rant by LordInsane here about how they should actually be one continuity, and were before EA poked their abnormally large noses into the whole business), the Tiberian (and not ' | ||
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+ | ==== Navigation ==== | ||
+ | **[[Computer gaming]]** | ||
+ | **[[alternate history: | ||
+ | **[[alternate history: | ||
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