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“Winners do drugs after all” - you can rewrite your favourite game screens with this fun tool"Our mistake, drugs are cool"

“Our mistake, drugs are cool”

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Nintendo

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Nintendo

The shopkeeper appears to Zelda, who is mistaken for Wario and offered “the mega sword”.

You can mess about with the FBI warning that famously told every arcade visitor in the United States (and beyond) that “Winners don’t do drugs”. You can play with Dracula’s existentialist screed in Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night. Or reimagine the letter Princess Peach sends to her plumber pal in Super Mario 64.

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An FBI logo appears with a warning about drug use.

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The “did you know” fact box of Windows 95 contains a quote from Karl Marx.

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A message appears in Super Mario World calling Mario a “social outcast” and warning him against being arrested.

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Dracula worries about “What is a man?” His friends laugh at him because he keeps asking but he still doesn’t know.

But my favourite is probablythe Metal Gear Solid one, because it not only lets you re-type the text of your codec conversations, it also lets you customise who is in the call. You can make up conversations with Otacon, Mei Ling, the Colonel, Meryl, and Naomi - it even lets you choose how many bars of reception is showing. The attention to detail is admirable.

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Otacon and Snake talk over the codec, with Otacon shouting about Snake mistaking a disguised melon as a human.

You can also just type in a small phrase and hit a dice button to cycle through the screens at random, just to see how your words might fit if, say, Sub-Zero were speaking them. Or perhaps you were not happy with the way Bloober Team remadeSilent Hill 2, in which case you can begin the process of writing your own adaptation, starting with Mary’s famous letter to her caring husband.

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A letter against a black background reads “James, have gone out for milk."

And finally, no collection of famous gaming screens would be complete without this scene from Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, which I have left untouched and reproduced here in its original unaltered form, out of respect for the fallen, you understand.

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The scene of a funeral in Call Of Duty is obscured by worrisome existential text.

The coder then postedan image of Winnie The Pooh swearing. Excellent. Go see if you can top that, readers. Have fun!