Inflation in video games

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Thu, 03/05/2009 - 01:38

Anonymous

Hi all, I wanted to bring up this subject to talk about inflation in games.

I'm sure there are quite a few inflation moments throughout the history of gaming, but one that sticks in my mind from my childhood years is from the Crash Test Dummies game for the Sega Genesis/Super Nintendo.

I believe during the second or third level there was a red balloon thing that inflated you when you touched it. I'm not sure if the thing was supposed to be a powerup or a obstacle that you should avoid, but regardless you could inflate your self (in the game) more and more by pressing up on the d pad until you were spherical round. I was shocked and surprised when I first found that, but remember playing that level over and over just to get hit by that thing, such good memories ^^

Of course its bit of a shame that the character in the game is male but the inflation is very good surprisingly, here are some screen shots I found. You'll have to scroll down the page a bit but they're there.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/incredible-crash-dummies/screenshots

For other games I've seen inflation in is of course the P Balloon power up in the Super Mario world game but that's all I can think of offhand.

Looking foreward to everyone's comments and memories :wink:

Thu, 03/05/2009 - 02:00

JannLee

No matter what anyone says about the gender-I had and maintain an attraction to the NiGHTS characters of the respective games.

I recall an inflation within the, "Soft Museum" level when NiGHTS bumped into something on one of the levels. Parts of the entire level seemed to be based around-so as a kid I enjoyed the thought of the air transferring from the level to her. I made sure to bump into that thing multiple times.

This was a level of the female character's-so I like to think the female character combining with NiGHTS makes this-in my eyes-a female inflation. :)

Thu, 03/05/2009 - 10:22

Saciel

NiGHTS is genderless *nod nod* as are all nightmarens. The game reffers to NiGHTS as him and he because it's much nicer than reffering to NiGHTS as an it.

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 04:26

Fukureru-Shogun

I liked that level in nights too...I used to bounce around on purpose....

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 04:54

Drybonesx

Saciel wrote:

NiGHTS is genderless *nod nod* as are all nightmarens. The game reffers to NiGHTS as him and he because it's much nicer than reffering to NiGHTS as an it.

Maybe but in the second game Nights has a clearly female voice.

I'm mean.

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 05:49

Anonymous

This "museum" level you guys are talking about sounds really interesting. I never really got to play the Saturn nor did I know anyone that had one, so I completely missed out on NiGHTS =S

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 06:17

Anonymous

Ok...I believe I may have found what you guys were talking about. Take a look at this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLBHzlwYSks

Its funny how the person called it a glitch...

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 07:41

Feroxodon

Mortal Kombat 2, Kitana's Kiss of Death. Forward, Forward, Down, Forward, High Kick...good times.

Sat, 03/07/2009 - 06:23

Breast_inflator44

Timesplitters Future Perfect.

A nifty gun called "Injector" inflates your enemies until they explode, also goes really well with the "Fat character" cheats. ^_^

Fri, 03/13/2009 - 21:51

#10

ASIAN!

Darkstalkers 3
A character named Jedah inflated people to the point of bursting with his arm. Lilith's inflation is the best ^_^.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
A character (can't remember her name) puffs up her breasts and shoots some sort of metal objects out of them.

Turok Rage Wars
Has a gun similar to the injector gun that either slowly inflates the enemy or inflates them fast and them pop.

Sat, 03/14/2009 - 13:15

#11

oh2bpreg

No mention of the original inflation video game "Dig Dug"? The one where in order to defeat the monsters, you can stick an air nozzle into them and then use a bicycle pump to blow them up until they pop.

Sat, 03/14/2009 - 14:56

#12

Drybonesx

Might as well point out the couple of Mario inflations.

In mario 64 DS, the power flower makes mario inflate just like the good ol P balloon.

In the wario land games (2 and on) when wario gets stung by a Bee his head blows up and makes him float.

I'm mean.

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 03:40

#13

gHassy

Metal Slug 3, where one of the power ups turns your character massively obese. You also... Kinda... Burst when you die. So, yeah...

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 07:20

#14

IronHead

oh2bpreg wrote:

No mention of the original inflation video game "Dig Dug"? The one where in order to defeat the monsters, you can stick an air nozzle into them and then use a bicycle pump to blow them up until they pop.

To this day, i'm surprised that no one has made a mod for Dig Dug Deeper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug_Deeper

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 07:39

#15

IronHead

ASIAN! wrote:

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
A character (can't remember her name) puffs up her breasts and shoots some sort of metal objects out of them.

I've been looking for her but so far i've only seen two female characters Midler (a belly dancer) and Mariah (a woman wearing a hood and a short skirt) unless there's more i've missed.

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 08:22

#16

bostoncowboy

any vids of jojo, metal slug, deathstalkers, or time splitters?

Sat, 02/16/2013 - 18:50

(Reply to #16) #17

darkburster1

i've recently uploaded the timesplitters injector gun, check youtube or dailymotion its the same vid and both are by me.- darkstalkers isnt hard to find

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 10:47

#18

ASIAN!

IronHead wrote:

ASIAN! wrote:

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
A character (can't remember her name) puffs up her breasts and shoots some sort of metal objects out of them.

I've been looking for her but so far i've only seen two female characters Midler (a belly dancer) and Mariah (a woman wearing a hood and a short skirt) unless there's more i've missed.

Mariah is the character that has the expansion attack.

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 20:21

#19

IronHead

ASIAN! wrote:

IronHead wrote:

ASIAN! wrote:

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
A character (can't remember her name) puffs up her breasts and shoots some sort of metal objects out of them.

I've been looking for her but so far i've only seen two female characters Midler (a belly dancer) and Mariah (a woman wearing a hood and a short skirt) unless there's more i've missed.

Mariah is the character that has the expansion attack.

Thank you, now if only I can find a video of her doing that attack.

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 21:14

#20

Blacklist

Timesplitters Injector (only vid on YouTube; crap quality): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3CLfExDeeI

Metal Slug X's "Whoa Big!" in normal gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWGzlgjieqk

Metal Slug 3's Fat Island mini-game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bDvSHb8zYQ

I just bought Timesplitters, so expect a better video from me sometime in the future.

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Wed, 03/18/2009 - 00:41

#21

ASIAN!

Just a little pointer for Timesplitters and the injector gun.
Create a custom game set the weapons to all baseball bats except 1 injector gun. Create your enemy list and start game. Pick up the injector and wait for the enemies to come to you. Shoot them once and they will swell but they won't attack, shoot them again and they inflate all the way.
Gives you a nice scene to watch the expansion.
Careful though, when they pop they can kill you, so run back a few seconds before they go boom.

Wed, 03/18/2009 - 03:19

#22

bostoncowboy

nice job with the vid links.

Wed, 03/18/2009 - 05:37

#23

IronHead

gHassy wrote:

Metal Slug 3, where one of the power ups turns your character massively obese. You also... Kinda... Burst when you die. So, yeah...

I remember once when playing that when I got Fio fat and then she got shot she didn't burst, instead shot up into the air like a deflating balloon. True story.

Wed, 03/18/2009 - 12:00

#24

LittlePumpkin

I believe there was inflation in a naruto game...

Wed, 03/18/2009 - 19:32

#25

Anonymous

IronHead wrote:

gHassy wrote:

Metal Slug 3, where one of the power ups turns your character massively obese. You also... Kinda... Burst when you die. So, yeah...

I remember once when playing that when I got Fio fat and then she got shot she didn't burst, instead shot up into the air like a deflating balloon. True story.

Yeah I know what you mean, she just pops :D

Thu, 03/19/2009 - 14:55

#26

sharkdude

Maybe its just me but I can't tell which Metal Slug characters are male or female :P Even more advice on Timespliters. Set a game of 16 female characters including yourself (i always play as the busty girl cop :P ) have the weapon only be the injector, turn off time and kill count win (as in the game wont end). you hear moans when the girls get shot and a bunch of inflated women running around popping. for extra fun turn on the fat characters cheat, they get even bigger. i played the hell out of that game when I had it. It is worth playing the story to unlock more female characters. the game is amazing

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Thu, 03/26/2009 - 07:04

#27

degausser

Drybonesx wrote:

Saciel wrote:

NiGHTS is genderless *nod nod* as are all nightmarens. The game reffers to NiGHTS as him and he because it's much nicer than reffering to NiGHTS as an it.

Maybe but in the second game Nights has a clearly female voice.

I heard somewhere that NiGHTS is supposed to represent all children everywhere, so the character was designed (in Japan) to be androgonys. In Japan, this is not an issue because referring to someone by name (even when talking to them) is quite common. Unfortunatly for us stupid Americans, we can't just say NiGHTS 400 times when describing stuff in the instruction booklet, we need to say "He/she, His/Her, and He's/She's. Which means we need to give NiGHTS a gender. Stupid English, having no gender neutral pronouns.

And now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

Thu, 03/26/2009 - 11:49

#28

gHassy

Has anyone heard of the upcoming PSN game "Fat Princess"? It's a game of capture the flag, only the flag's a princess, and you can feed your princess food to make her bigger and harder for the other team to move. I kid you not. It's an actual puplically sold game based around a WG mechanic.

Thu, 03/26/2009 - 12:28

#29

sharkdude

Who hasn't heard of that game? :P sorry if you haven't ps3 owners everywhere fa and non are waiting hard for this game for the sheer fun gore and humor elements, it will be well worth the wait

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Thu, 03/26/2009 - 16:26

#30

BE_Babe

Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap
The prospect of growing big and small at the touch of a button...and being able to squish or get squished.
I found myself wishing it were a 3D game, so I could look up the skirts of the girls, and whisper sweet nothings into the guys' ears, amking them think it was the woman they were facing. I wish there were such a game that I could do this.

Most I've found for inflation games is that. I've heard of the Timesplitters FS gun, and saw an interesting pic about it on dA...but sadly, I've never played it. I wish I could...it would be an interesting sight to see.

What system was that game for?

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Sat, 02/16/2013 - 19:03

(Reply to #29) #31

darkburster1

GC xbox and ps2.

I uploaded to youitube and dailymotion a video of this (because there were none anywhere!) best 40 bucks ive spent in awhile as i just recently bought it on ebay.

Thu, 03/26/2009 - 16:36

#32

Anonymous

degausser wrote:

Drybonesx wrote:

Saciel wrote:

NiGHTS is genderless *nod nod* as are all nightmarens. The game reffers to NiGHTS as him and he because it's much nicer than reffering to NiGHTS as an it.

Maybe but in the second game Nights has a clearly female voice.

I heard somewhere that NiGHTS is supposed to represent all children everywhere, so the character was designed (in Japan) to be androgonys. In Japan, this is not an issue because referring to someone by name (even when talking to them) is quite common. Unfortunatly for us stupid Americans, we can't just say NiGHTS 400 times when describing stuff in the instruction booklet, we need to say "He/she, His/Her, and He's/She's. Which means we need to give NiGHTS a gender. Stupid English, having no gender neutral pronouns.

And now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

Yes, I always thought the NiGHTS character was supposed to represent whichever gender the kid was in the level. (ie) you were playing the girl's level so NiGHTS would be a female and vice versa.

Thu, 03/26/2009 - 20:48

#33

sharkdude

BE_Babe wrote:

Most I've found for inflation games is that. I've heard of the Timesplitters FS gun, and saw an interesting pic about it on dA...but sadly, I've never played it. I wish I could...it would be an interesting sight to see.
What system was that game for?

It is for the playstation 2 so you can play it on your PS2 or your PS3 if is the backwards compatible model

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Thu, 03/26/2009 - 21:12

#34

ASIAN!

Some more games involving inflation

-The game Bloodrayne 1 and 2 both have a code with increases all female characters breast size.
-Super Mario Sunshine has you inflate plants and some enemies with water
-Klonoa is basically all about inflation. Your character has a ring which puffs enemies up with air. No sequence though.
-Diet-Go-Go has you facing off against food monsters. You hit them they inflate, they hit you the same thing happens.
-Soldier of Fortune has another inflation gun

Fri, 03/27/2009 - 02:51

#35

darth_clone19

The inflation in Timesplitters is definitely worth it. I once rented it and beat the game just to get female characters in the multiplayer mode. I used to do that with Turok Rage Wars for the N64...whcih also has an Inflator.

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Fri, 03/27/2009 - 12:41

#36

Zepylin

Are there any actual videos of it? I've yet to see any myself...

Fri, 03/27/2009 - 16:20

#37

Anonymous

Zepylin wrote:

Are there any actual videos of it? I've yet to see any myself...

There is a video of Timesplitters on youtube but the quality is so bad, you can't really see anything.

Sat, 02/16/2013 - 19:07

(Reply to #35) #38

darkburster1

I uploaded a video where you CAN see everything- check it out! (look for the injector gun on youtube or dailymotion.

Fri, 03/27/2009 - 16:24

#39

Anonymous

ASIAN! wrote:

Some more games involving inflation
-The game Bloodrayne 1 and 2 both have a code with increases all female characters breast size.
-Super Mario Sunshine has you inflate plants and some enemies with water
-Klonoa is basically all about inflation. Your character has a ring which puffs enemies up with air. No sequence though.
-Diet-Go-Go has you facing off against food monsters. You hit them they inflate, they hit you the same thing happens.
-Soldier of Fortune has another inflation gun

was Diet-Go-Go the old arcade game where you could play as a guy or a girl?

Fri, 03/27/2009 - 16:56

#40

Zepylin

You could play as a guy or a girl, but the girl's expansion was very minimal. There were little scenes in between levels that mostly consisted of the two characters in humorous situations, most of which involving the girl in her usual thin form and the boy comically overweight. Only one has the girl overweight, and even then you don't see much since her back is turned.

Sun, 03/29/2009 - 18:37

#41

captainneil

I heard through the grapevine that Jennifer in Disgaea 3 has a breast expansion attack.
It's on youtube, but it's from behind. It's better than nothing. Just kinda was hoping for some more 'inflation' sound effects or maybe a bit slower growth.

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Sun, 03/29/2009 - 19:54

#42

sharkdude

That Diseagea thing isn't really worth it, it looks like she is smuggling torpedoes and just shoots them, the chibi style and the back view makes it pointless.

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Mon, 03/30/2009 - 01:30

#43

Anonymous

LittlePumpkin wrote:

I believe there was inflation in a naruto game...

Go on...

Mon, 03/30/2009 - 12:46

#44

LittlePumpkin

True. I have the sprites of it, just need to let it move.

Sat, 04/04/2009 - 19:21

#45

Anonymous

LittlePumpkin wrote:

True. I have the sprites of it, just need to let it move.

Is this from a handheld game? And is the inflation male or female or both?

Tue, 04/07/2009 - 10:10

#46

LittlePumpkin

I don't know and it's male.
Wait, I'll upload it in the gallery. If someone can animate it, please go ahead.

Thu, 05/07/2009 - 00:55

#47

Unknown1

Nothing beats Kitana's kiss of death but they never spent the time to properly develop it

Thu, 05/07/2009 - 03:59

#48

Anonymous

Unknown1 wrote:

Nothing beats Kitana's kiss of death but they never spent the time to properly develop it

The way how they programmed it in MK vs DC was really pathetic. It just looked like Wonder Woman had a big tumor growing out of her back :?

Thu, 05/14/2009 - 12:28

#49

inflatingclothes

do you think that in every nex gen games machine comes out, their is a least one game that has a inflation gun in it.

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Thu, 05/14/2009 - 19:43

#50

sharkdude

Timesplitters (the injector inflation gun) is making a sequel to the next gen consoles

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Fri, 05/15/2009 - 23:31

#51

Anonymous

Yes I've heard vague rumors of a new Timesplitters game, even tho I have my doubts they'll bring the injector gun over.

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