Happy sesquicenti - wait. Happy, uh, tenth-millenial, Characters Forum? Bah, I dunno what the correct term would be...
Ooh, check out the number of topics in that screenshot, too! One for every day of the year! Except leap years...
The funny thing is, I actually knew about that NES game BEFORE I ever heard about H*R. So the first time I ever saw Strong Bad (the character), I thought, "Whoa, did they get the idea for him from that one really old NES game? That is
awesome."
(I admit I have a soft spot for INCREDIBLY obscure random references of that sort.
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