A group of college friends, sitting around in an apartment. Summer has just come and school's out. Rather then head to the beach, go outside or do anything boring like that, the first day of summer vacation begins with what they consider to be the best thing in the world: A VIDEO GAME MARATHON!

Busting out the Atari 2600, NES, Sega Genesis/CD, Super Nintendo, Gameboy, PSP, Dreamcast, N64, Playstation, Xbox, and their Laptops, these friends are ready for the greatest four day and 96 hour tournament of the champions, to see which one among them is the ultimate gamer! Loaded with a keg of beer, energy drinks, pop, chips, and enough order-in pizza to choke a Ninja Turtle, these gamer guys and gals are ready for anything... Except what happened next.

The enormous amount of items plugged into the back of the television and the wall socket behind it is consuming a large amount of energy. After the power goes out, one of the friends finds a mysterious generator that nobody realized was there before. Ignorant of the strange circumstances surrounding the power generator, one of the gamers plugs it into the power socket, which causes a shocking event: a powerful vortex busts through the television and rapidly begins to suck in the gamers, teleporting them to a world that they thought was purely fictional: the Virtual World of the "Datacore". Upon their arrival in this strange world within the video game, they discover that the only way to leave is by gathering many mystical artifacts. The only way to recover these artifacts, is by defeating the Bosses at the end of the level in each game world. These so called "Game Masters" are equipped with technology and items from each world, giving them certain skills to help conquer the Ultimate Gamer Challange.

Armed to the teeth and ready to face the challenge of the game world before them, the Title Screen comes up, playing an epic pixel tune, preparing them for the awesomeness that lays ahead. As the opening cutscene to the game ends, a sole option appears on the massive door before them, containing the portals to the game worlds:



So, as you've probably guessed by the little overview I've written up, this RP will centre around a group of gamers who are pulled into a video game and must defeat the many Level Bosses in order to escape. Think something along the lines of "Captain N: The Game Master" and "Sword Art Online" in terms of how the worlds and level systems work.

This will combine elements from our favourite gaming companies (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, SEGA, Capcom, ect) and our favourite game series (Super Mario, Little Big Planet, Halo, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, and more!) This will be a very relaxed and comedic RP, where the characters simply try to interact with the worlds around them and most likely get into all kinds of jams (ex. In the Kirby world they would argue over killing the adorable enemies, while the Killzone world would reluctantly pit them against each other in a randomly generated death battle). Some worlds will change them and allow them upgraded versions of their hear (ex. Going to Skyrim will make all the equipment more medieval based, while landing on Planet Zebes will force the weapons and armour to get as futuristic as humanly possible).

There's still so much to discuss for this, and so many different ideas we can go with in terms of game worlds. I'd like to hear what you all have to say, so post below and let me know what's on your mind or if you're interested!

I had some ideas for Retro Game Worlds from the 8-16 bit era's listed here. Keep in mind, they're mostly E rated games because they're were the ones that dominates the 80's-90's:

• Super Mario
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• The Legend of Zelda
• Mega Man
• Double Dragon
• Metroid
• Castlevania
• Street Fighter (or) Tekken
• Harvest Moon
• Contra
• Kirby
• Yoshi's Island
• Donkey Kong
• Battletoad's
• Mortal Combat
• F-Zero
• Final Fantasy

Let me know if you have any questions/comments about this RP! I'll be sure to try and answer them ^^

Color me interested. Look forward to seeing where this goes

Nice. I was also thinking of possibly allowing the controlling of some Game Characters in this (not many, but it might be an interesting concept if we get so far into the RP that having a new Game Master might be a bit weird. OC game heroes/heroines also may be interesting).

Not sure about that idea though. We'll see how this goes and I'll decide by the OoC stage.

Very interesting, fun idea. So yeah. Interested.

Cool. We'll wait to see if any more people are interested. I'll probably start this when we have 2-3 more people join up.

So, any ideas for worlds you'd want to visit in the game? I really kind of want to send the group to Apeture to participate in multiple Tests... But maybe that's just my inner G.L.A.D.O.S. talking.

I'm in! And I'm ready for the tests!

I'd like to see a world based up on The Nonary Game from Zero Escape but maybe It's not well known enough to incorporate, hehe.

ZERO ESCAPE ALL THE WAY. Also er- Civilization. Or League of Legends :P

Haha, Civ would be funny!

Ohhh, so we can suggest sort of modern games too?

I've been playing games since friggin atari bro! I once had first hand experience playing the worst game ever made! E.T.!

Hrm, but yeah, I've played loads of games from Antiquity and on!

Just a few I might suggest =3

Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana 1 or 2
Metal Gear
Halo [Thought I am loathe to give it publicity, I have always wanted to punch an Elite XD]

You had me at "Worlds". Count me in.

...We won't all turn into animals or anything when we go to the Sonic and Donkey Kong worlds, right? Since that would freak me out a bit. XD

Other than that though, interest. Also want to suggest Pokemon since it doesn't seem to be on that list. XD

I'm interested~ ^_^

I like to add a couple more games if it okay.
How about earthbound or final fantasy 1 or 6?

I'm super interested in this. This is so 90's, it hurts. And I love it!

As for vidya game ideas, I thought of Little Big Planet, Mass Effect, Katamari Damacy, Pikmin, etc etc.

XD holy shit that's so much interest in the time I was sleeping XD

Now, I will try to answer all of your questions ^^

Rin said
...We won't all turn into animals or anything when we go to the Sonic and Donkey Kong worlds, right? Since that would freak me out a bit. XDOther than that though, interest. Also want to suggest Pokemon since it doesn't seem to be on that list. XD

No, we'll just gain Speed shoes in Sonic's world so we can run faster and in DK's world, we'll just get Jungle versions of our suits and weapons. And yeah, I forgot to add Pokemon xD.

Sunshine said
I'm in! And I'm ready for the tests! I'd like to see a world based up on The Nonary Game from Zero Escape but maybe It's not well known enough to incorporate, hehe.

Hmm, I'll investigate that further, but I see no reason why we can't go there.

Shoryu said
Ohhh, so we can suggest sort of modern games too?I've been playing games since friggin atari bro! I once had first hand experience playing the worst game ever made! E.T.!Hrm, but yeah, I've played loads of games from Antiquity and on!Just a few I might suggest =3Chrono TriggerSecret of Mana 1 or 2Metal GearHalo [Thought I am loathe to give it publicity, I have always wanted to punch an Elite XD]

XD ET is a terrible game. And those worlds are all cool, I'm good to go!

ThatCharacter said
ZERO ESCAPE ALL THE WAY. Also er- Civilization. Or League of Legends :P

XD I can just imagine everybody arguing in LoL and running out the clock while the monsters are like "Why aren't they attacking us?"

Bornlucky said
I'm interested~ ^_^I like to add a couple more games if it okay. How about earthbound or final fantasy 1 or 6?

I had final fantasy listed as a complete genre so we can pick the world we want to visit most out of the series. And Earthbound could be fun, I'd like to see how our guys react to Gyagas (answer: crying in the corner and wetting themselves with fear)

Felono said
I'm super interested in this. This is so 90's, it hurts. And I love it!As for vidya game ideas, I thought of Little Big Planet, Mass Effect, Katamari Damacy, Pikmin, etc etc.

Those all sound fun, great!

Okay, so thanks to this major increase in people, I'll have the OoC up later today with the complete list of worlds to explore from each Console/Time Period ^^

I want in on this.

I want to be the friend that is way into fighting games.

Or Samus. Because Metroid.

Either one works, but having Samus could be fun. Sort of remisient of Captain N where the heroes were guided by a game character (and I already have plans for Nav'i like character created from a PSP)

Oh good. XD Hmmm...

...So I think I have a couple of ideas but I should probably hold off until the OOC is up so I know what I can work with. But we'll see how things turn out I guess.

Sora1297 said
Either one works, but having Samus could be fun.

Well now I don't know which one I want to be more.

Also, here's the sheets so you guys can start planning your characters. Feel free to ask any questions you may have about certain things. I'll post my sheet later today so you guys have an idea of what to work off of.

I'll also be taking the character with the "Mega Man" game mastery.

"Game Master" Sheet (College Friends)

Image of Character: (feel free to include their normal look and what they may look like in their Game Master Outfit)
Name:
Nickname: (optional)
"Game Master" Title:
Gender:
Chosen Game Mastery: (Mario, LBP, Final Fantasy, ect. Your selected game mastery will define your powers/abilities. An example would be if you picked Mario, you could jump higher then other characters and be able to adopt the various jobs Mario has gotten in the past, but you won't be able to use weapons like somebody who chose Zelda. Also, try to avoid having similar/the same game masteries as other characters. One Game Master per series, please ^^)
Preferred Weapon(s)/Power-Up(s): (if any, based on your Game Mastery)
Background:
Other: (include any additional information you want. Maybe a catchphrase that your character says, or their favourite video game).

"Hero of the Game World" Sheet (Video Game Character Sheet)

Image of Character: (feel free to include a new design you feel would work for them if you don't like the current one. If they have different costumes like armour, include an image of that as well).
Name:
Nickname: (optional)
Gender:
Game Of Origin: (What series are they from?)
Preferred Weapon(s)/Power-Up(s): (if any)
Game Background: (Can be pasted from Internet if you want, but feel free to rewrite it to your liking)
Other: (include any additional information you want. Maybe a catchphrase that your character says, or their personal thoughts on the "Game Masters").

And as per all of my RP's, you can have up to 3 active characters, so Fab you can be both if you can't decide :3