Yesterday I was driving my kids around in my wife's car. Her car is older so I get to enjoy the radio, and as I was driving a little ditty called I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner came on. I was immediately reminded of a great prank I pulled.
You might want to go ahead and play it while you read the rest. It'll only make things better.
Back in our college house we played a lot of Age of Empires. Many an hour were spent LANing, and AOE has been mentioned on the blog several times. The great thing about AOE was that there were taunts that you could type into the chat that would play a short audio snippet. Some of the bests were "I NEED WOOD" and "WOOLOLO". I eventually discovered that these taunts were just saved in the game files as MP3 with a naming convention corresponding to the number you entered into the chat. This spawned a great idea for a fun prank.
Over the next week or so, whenever a roommate's computer was unattended I would quickly and quietly plug in a flash drive and save the MP3 of Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is in their taunts folder. Once everything was set up I wanted until a game where I was winning big and as I went into my final death blow assault I hit the magic numbers, and a cascade of opening notes of one of the best power ballads of all time start playing through everyone's speakers over the sounds of me slaughtering their armies and townspeople. The combination of that 5 minute slow jam and being in their base killing their dudes was such a hilarious paring that I laugh just writing about it.
From that day on, I Want To Know What Love Is was played every time someone was about to win a game of AOE. The best thing is that you could have multiple iterations of I Want To Know What Love Is playing at the same time, so during some games there would be 4 or more I Want To Know What Love Is's playing. Now that's gaming!
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