What drew you to 8-Bit Theatre?

[Neo-rin]

I first began reading back when I was a n00b and when I was very susceptible to losing at the Internet, owing to my lack of prior experience regarding all things cyber-awesome. I think it's pretty safe to say that was a good while ago.

Time passed.

Now, older, and still stupid, I began rereading 8-Bit two or three days ago. I find myself entranced.

[Backrow]

I have known about 8bit theatre for a few years now, but only completely read it a few days ago. I started to read it a couple years ago, but for reasons I can't quite think of anymore I didn't like it. I enjoy it now and think it's pretty funny.

[Eternal Swordsman]

Two years ago I saw the movies on FlashPlayer. The third one had a link to NP. That's a really boring story... :/

[Fuzzydoom]

Friend of mine on the bus in the morning spent the entire bus ride telling us how great it is and how we shoudl read it, needless to say, we did. It owns and so here I am.

[Serpent-Stare]

A friend of mine named Rose was reading them when she visited one time. I started reading over her shoulder, then sat down. She started reading them aloud to me to spare me the trouble, and I still hear her voice sometimes when I read them. She had many saved on the dard drive of her laptop, so she transferred them to mine. I read them all (Yes, all 150 that I had at that point. Over and over.) and eventually remembered the site she'd been looking at. So I went and read them myself and now I've saved up to strip 450 or so, I think. Typing each title. In my most sacred file.

*Addicted*

I've also referred it to anyone I've met on the net who seemed like someone who'd like it. Just so you know, I've never played FF, but I still get most of this. Luv it guys! Keep 'em coming!

....Do they actually roleplay this, by the way?

[Briar]

Order of the Stick linked to it, so I clicked and found myself entranced with the glory which is 8-bit Theatre. I haven't been reading it long, but I've already read all the archives, seen all the relevant Flash cartoons (and many irrelevent ones), and sold my soul to Black Mage. Judging from his reaction, my soul smells of cheese.

[WhiteMage2007]

well what drew me is that i have a total nerd friend (he is the coolest guy ever) and so he kept quoting it. so when i asked him what the freak he showed me survivor 8-bit style and i have been hooked ever since. :p

[BlackMageFan]

Simple answer to the question would be Eps. 001.

...but the original person that drew me to 8-bit was my cousin. After the first eps. I couldnt stop reading....the comic is like a drug! lol

:fighter: AHHHHH!!! SPIDER!!!

lol

[behemoth]

The thousands of people telling me about how great it is on MUD's

[AnimeRocker12]

:fighter: lol I love 8-bit welll cuz........ Its cool....heh heh :bmage:

[Admiral_Kelly]

I found a link from the Dragon Mango (http://www.dragon-mango.com/) links page. At first, I dismissed this comic and didn't even look at it becsue I thought the artwork would be terrible but after reading it I got hooked. :)

[doodle]

2 or 3 years ago was when I first witnessed anything related to 8-bit theater. That was when I saw the Chocobo Remix Flash by Legendary Frog on Newgrounds.com. The skit in the pre-loader was amusing but not amusing enough for me to search for mor 8-bit theater, since I had an impression it was just a fan-fiction written by some geek.
1 or 2 years later in the fall of 2003, I had just entered college, but very shortly, I slammed into a wall of boredom when I realized that I had really nothing to do after assignments were done. The campus was not placed in a very lively environment, so I decided to play some SNES and NES ROMs. One of them was Final Fantasy.
Having the habit of looking up a guide and walkthrough before playing an RPG, I decided to look up FF1 on Google. I found planetnintendo.com to be the single best resource for Final Fantasy. On one of the links, I saw 8-bit theater. Then I just thought "Oh, it looks like the 'fanfiction' just got a slight bit more popular"; unfortunately, I was too lazy to check out the link since I was busy trying to play a game.
Then I met a friend who was an outgoing D&D player (as odd as that seems, but he is a crazy guy, although a outright geek). He tought me was D&D was and how to play. I became enthusiastic about it. Unfortunately, my prudence and diligence for studies pushed my interests aside, and I did not play D&D. But school can't keep me away from my computer, so I still played video games sparingly.
One day, I had a conversation at lunch with this friend (let's call him Steve), and I asked him about spells higher than level 9. He proposed the HADOKEN!. My expression: -_-. I mean "COME ON! It's a fighting move done in Street Fighter by Ryu and Ken!".
Later that day I decided to play FF1, and Steve haphazardly showed up in my room and quoted Fighter talking to the Coneria town gaurd: "Welcome to Coneria: I like swords: Welcome to Coneria: I like swords: Welcome...". I was surprised by the sudden witty randomness that came out of his mouth, and asked where he got that from. He promply replied, "nuklearpower.com".
So I searched for Nuclear-power.com, nuclearpower.com, nuclearpower.net, .org, .gov, nukelarpower.com. Then, I finally asked him how to spell the URL (while he grinned toothily at my futile attempts to find this website).
The instant I entered this website, I realized the sins I have made to the gods of humor and wit, and how I intentionally ignored anything 8-bit related, and what an awesome site this is. Out of shame and regret, I requested Steve to leave my presence and shut the door on the way out. I then proceeded with trembling fingers to look at the first episode of this epic.
On the first episode, it was okay; nothing extraordinary, actually to my relief, but without knowing where my friend's quote came from, my lust for knowledge propelled me to keep looking for it. Each ensuing episode was funnier and funnier until...

HADOKEN!

At that point, my soul lept out of my body, into the heavens, enlightened me with all the knowledge in the universe, captured by angels and sent to the gates of heaven, where I was judged to be pure except for the celestial humor attorneys pointing out the the atrocities of ignoring 8-bit theater, and thus I was promptly sentenced to hell for an eternal 16-hours. I plummeted straight into the depths of an unknown layer of hell, in which I traded my knowledge of the universe in a black market deal in exchange to return to earth in my limp lifeless body. When I became conscious again, I saw realized that 16 hours of my life had gone by and I caught up to the current issue of the 8-bit epic, and I was rather satisfied with my current status (although I was missing quite a bit of knowledge about the universe).

(For those of you concerned, I can recall no information about a secret plot in hell to infiltrate the universe to conquer any civilazation of sentient life forms and commit them to the forever doom of hell slavery (I think its much worse than slavery ever was on Earth)).

Thank you for your audience to my humble recollection.

[MM3]

Quite a few years ago, for some reason or another, I happened up a site called 8-Bit theater or such. Within the site, were hillarious flash movies, about Black Mage and Fighter, and their creator, who was at that time playing some MMORPG with Camelot or such in its name. He also did some Chrono Trigger flashes.

Flash to about a week ago. I was sitting in front of my computer, when a sudden random thought popped into my head, "Hey, I wonder how 8-Bit is doing?"

And it was doing very well indeed. A comic spanning well past the 500th mark, with fans all over the world (I might be exxagerating on the last point, I really don't know)!

By the way... Can anyone tell me if Brian was the one who did those flashes so many years ago?

[My_Horse]

Well, about a year ago, my friend sent me an e-mail that told me to read 8-bit theatre (he linked it), and I read the entire archive in one day, I've been hooked ever since. That, and FF is the awesome.

[CDS]

The Dead Ale Wives Club spoof using 8bit theater. checked it out and read all the comics in one night.

[Cloud3514]

i found out about 8-bit theater while a couple of my freinds were looking around on ishouldbestudying.com, they found the first three animated 8-bit episodes, and we watched them, then we were tired of waiting for 8-bit theater 4, so we went to the web page and started reading the comics (which are better than the flash episodes BTW)

[guest#123]

i sawed me this comics on newgrouns...i sawed the flash...the started reeding them comics on ..er uh heer

[Mysterio400]

From the Final Fantasy Chocobo song made by Legendary Frog. In the beginning there is an 8-bit quickie thing so after having found it to be quite funny I looked into the comic and ect.

[guest#123]

i love the chocobo song...its the second best song...sephiroth is the first

[Marth]

I was linked to the episode of BM attacking the old folks home, loved it and started reading the comic.

[Swez]

I learnt of it at GameFAQs.com, which is a gaming forum n stuff site if anyone cares. There were a couple of threads and quotes everywhere so I decided to check it out.

[Amara]

Strange... I honestly cannot remember how I discovered this particular webcomic. I am aware that it took place in early May, and that it was quite late at night. I was unable to sleep and cruising about on the internet in search of amusement.

I also recall that I fell asleep at the keyboard several hours later and missed work the next day. Irrelevant but ironic.

[micker1985]

What initially drew me to eight bit theater was a group of my friends printing out a huge document in my high school's computer lab. I quickly found out what was up and they caught me up on the series and I found it very funny and entertaining, seems as good a reason as any to be drawn into something. I put it as one of my start pages for mozilla firefox and I've been a regular reader ever since.

[talse]

It was 3 years ago, on my first visit to chicago for educational purposes one of the guys in the dorm was wandering about newgrounds. he wouldn't tell me the site name so i couldn't find it for about a month, mind you, i was 13 at the time, and when i found it, i stumbled upon the flash animations rather quickly and found them to be funny of the highest calibur. i pounced on the opurtunity to read the comics, i think it was around fall of that year that i started running through the archives.

i remember it very vividly because i was not in circumstances that permitted laughter (as such i was much more inclined to do so) because i was watching "birth of a nation" as an extra credit assignment for american history. such a long, boring movie, but such a funny time consuming comic! win win for 8th grade me!

[PCD]

Well, I was talking with some other nerds online about the ever-awesome doushinji of Bleedman (http://bleedman.snafu-comics.com/archive.php), and one of them had no idea what we were talking about. "Huh. Well, I just stick to Nuklear Power." I, in return, had no idea what he was referring to as the conversation went to, 'Oh yea, that rocks.' I asked WTF? and they sent me a link. In fact, I remember it being just before Episode 500 came out. Lucky me.

Anyway, I spent a little bit of time reading, I thought it was kinda funny, then forgot about it. A few months later, I came back due to the fact that I had absolutely nothing to do (besides homework, but screw that), and started rereading. Over the next few days I spent hours and hours catching up. My interest increased drastically before long, and I was obsessed by the end. Then it started to fade a little again... Then I started fanarting, and my obsession level is currently higher than ever.

[Bloodravyn]

What drew me to 8-Bit Theatre... hm. Well, first off the friend scenario of, "Look! This is the funniest thing ever!" and me going, "Oh my god! This is so freakin awesome!" and then I went home only to stay up a whole day straight reading from 1 to 200 something when there was only about that back then. Now this is much farther as you know and all I have to say is congrads to the ones that make it possible.

[Amake]

I was going to ask, "does anyone actually read these things?" and then I found this post:
One day I come home from work, and I found my husband in front of the computer. Dead. Minus his head.
The autopsy found the he had actually laughed so hard that his head popped off. So, out of sheer morbid curiosity, I looked up what he had been reading at the time of his demise. Guess what it was? Yup.
Now I read the site in the hopes that one day I, too, will laugh until my head pops and I can join my husband in the great RPG in the sky.
Which got 0 reactions, so I guess that answers it. >_>

Me, I followed up a rumor I heard about a sect where the members sacrificed their lives to some kind of humor god. They all died laughing, like the victims of the Joker's nerve gas. There was some violent interrogations - some might call it torture - and gunfights with four-armed gremlins. My lover took a bullet for me, and I swore on his grave that I'd get to the bottom of this matter or die trying. The scum of the city had never seen anyone quite like me, as I tore through the underworld in my frienzied search, and eventually they realized they couldn't run or hide or fight me off, and they gave the the URL.

Alright, it was just a friend who told me and I entered the race at strip 220 or so.

[Sivart]

I was drawn to 8bit theatre nigh 3 years ago. I was pointed here by my questmaster, (the dm) on a little MuD (kinda like d&d, cept totally diffrent) maybe it wasn't the dm, whatever, they have cool easter egg type refrences to 8bit, whatever. Anyhow, tehy pointed me here. (if your intrested, www.ivalicemud.com) However, right now, they be down. After i got up to the episode where WM got BM's lil note on the airship, i had finally reached hte point where Brian hadn't updated yet, so i .. erm.. not know.. ok, fine, i got bored! Then i forgot about it for a while, but last month got re-intrested, started reading on the 26, (having forgotten the entire story arc) and finally caught back up totally on tuesday after the last update! Hooray! :bmage:

[RedNinja#77]

My brother introduced me to 8-bit. Now I'm obsessed.

[Brian_Link]

I guess this is an appropriate first message. AKA I'm a n00b here.
My friends were screwing around searched Dungeons and Dragons at newgrounds. IU became obsessed. For some strange reason though I'm the only one who reads these 0_o

[akb4what]

Um.....a friend

[Specterbane]

I was actualy recomended here by a friend back in my sophmore year of high school. So I guess I've been reading the comic for a while.

[Brainmeats]

Quite honestly... I had never even heard of some of these games mentioned in 8 bit (I'm not that much of a gamer... but I'm working on that) But all my friends at College were talking about it constantly. Well, I was forced to read the first few b/c my buddies were all like "Yo you gotsta read this stuff... Its hilarious." Well that was about 4-5 months ago and after reading 50+ comics a day some days, I have caught up and am reading the Dailys~ I Love 8bit! Now I am making my other friends read it and they love it as much as I do. Half the time, all we talk about is 8 bit. One friend is a real version of BM (all evil and crap). He says I am like WM cause I'm nice sometimes but can get pretty mean when I wanna. We pick on each other like that. Anywho~ That's how I got started reading 8bit Theatre.

[roguepornstar]

I was told of 8-bit theatre about a month ago and after the first Hardoken made me fall off my chair with laughter I couldnt give it up.

[Fliktor]

My brother directed me in this, well, direction - been reading it for years, but only just bothered to join the forums now. Because I'm lazy. Real lazy.

[Flamehead6544]

mine? well thats asking a lot... i want over my friends house, and he was reading a hand-drawn comic roughlt based on the FF games. he refused to even acknowledge that he had been reading a webcomic, let alone give me the address, so i googles final fantasy comic. dont remember what number from the top it was back then, but im willing to bet its at the top now. actually *scurries off to laptop* yep, it number one.

[Bhaal]

I came here thanks to my brother.

[Toe Nibbler]

My friend Nic introduced me...And the reason I stayed is really described in two words.


:bmage: and :thief:

[cecil]

i searched for video game parodies and got newgrounds they were funny and i wanted to see more... it was double funny (i am SO cool)

[Babm]

I came here through Mana Theater which is also a very good webcomic.
I'm really addicted to these lightwarriors though, I think it's the best comic ever!
Period.

[BlueMage]

I got drawn to 8-bit Theater because a guy I train with is/was always rambling about it. Of course, he was also insisting he could perform a Hadoken, which was both frustrating and a relief from his usual attempts at performing anime techniques.

[stabbity death]

The people at my forum have been following it since the beginning.

[Proto-Zack]

I started following 8Bit since Princess Sara(h) carved up that Ogre back in comic 1XXish...

My friend Blair told me to check it out. I had already surveyed other webcomics.

This is one of the much better ones.

[Tvmorbid]

Someone made a flash cartoon of the first couple of episodes on Newgrounds.com and the author added the link for the site in the description. I came here and was instantly hooked.

[oddly]

I read about it in an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly back in the good ol' days.

[Robert]

I first heard of 8-Bit Theater from the Flash animations on Newgrounds a week or two ago. After watching all the animations I saw the link to the site and decided to check it out. It took me 2-3 days to read all of the comics that were up (I didn't have much else to do since it was summer vacation). I've been a fan ever since. I just can't get enough of the characters. The plot is completely hilarious and extremely well done. Congratulations to Brian and everyone else responsible for the creation of this masterpiece. 8-Bit Theater has become my favorite Web comic.

[Premmy]

I had been looking up stuff about sprite comics to learn how to make them and saw
references and links to 8-bit every where so I checked it out

[blackmagic-dragons-yeah]

i got into 8-bit theater by watching the 1-4th movie on flashplayer
it is a website
and was immediatly addicted :bmage:

[mad_cat_42]

Same as above. Except I watched them on Newgrounds.

[Red Dragon 50]

I was toled by my freind Nick about it... but i'm sure some one else here knows him.

[Layjock]

I was told by my exgirlfriend about it. She and her friend started talking about it in a restaurant, I became intrigued and I viewed it. It's great!

[akb4what]

a friend showed me the part where black mage was hittin on white mage

then i started gettin hooked

[krade2k20]

I did not find this site on accident, I just happen to have "loving" friends who threatened infinite harm if I did not begin reading it, and then discuss at lunch as they did (which was annoying as I had nothing to say, just sat there and ate my lunch). One of them is actually on this forum, though he rarely posts, Tyler-The-Wizard. But he did no threatening, as he is short, and is weak vs. nerf weapons, and bruises easily.

[Cotton Man]

I had heard of it from my brother... and being raised on the NES FF was my favorite game, so I had to check it out. when i first saw it it was at like 128 episodes but each one was great. Now 600... I cant believe it!

[Monkey]

I started reading this strip when there were about 2 or 3 hundred comics and attempted to catch up.. then forgot about it.. then came back .. forgot again and now I am caught up, YIPPIE... But the thread is on what brought me here.. well I heard about this wicked cool comic about FF1 but comedy style and I was like "I like FF.. I like comedy... hey I bet I would like this!" and that's how I started!

[Major Blood]

I found this comic completely by chance. Truth be told, i was typing in random url's when i tried nuklearpower.com and found this. Been hooked ever since.

EDIT - Yay, 100 Posts!!!!

[keithaldrovan]

Well, my brother was the one to show it to me. I think I started reading the comic when it had a good 350 episodes and since I wasn't TOO interested (and because I was starting middle school) I didnt read too much. Now I've already read 614, so it doesnt take for me to say that I loved it soon afterwards.

[Flare]

I think my brother just sat me down and made me read. Then, after a while, I started to read more frequently/madly.

[Rocko]

well a m8 got me into DnD. And they mentioned two comics, this one, and another one :)

[roguepornstar]

what was the other one?

[Dasanudas]

Few years ago I saw a friend of mine had a mousepad with Fighter saying "I like swords." He explained about the comic and then I happened to remember it last year, so I came here and read them all.

[Ellehcim]

Well, this summer I was IMing a friend. Suddenly he linked the first comic and told me to read it. So I did. "Hehehe, that's pretty funny," I said, not realizing there was more.

He said, "It's gets so much better."

So I read on. It took me forever, but I read all of them, my random fits of laughter causing my family to stare at me with raised eyebrows multiple times. Yay for making people think you're insane through the genius of Brian! :D

[TheRevolutionary26]

About a year and half ago one of my friends was talking about the site at lunch so I went and checked out the site after school and I was hooked from then on. I've always been a fan of the original game so the comic appealed to me. Plus I like Brian's style of humor.

[BlackMageFF1]

I have always love Mortisland.com and I went searching for things like it. So I found 8-Bit Theater and I loved it instantly. It's impossible to not love 8BT!!!

[nuklearpaul]

I Got Drew to the site by explosions, doom, and final fantasy

[Ren Cossack]

I was watching G4TTv, and it was mentioned on Filter's "Net to Know", so I read a few and instantly became obsessed with it.

[The]

Well, it was my first webcomic. My brother visited this site that linked to games, I went on, this site that hosted the game had an 8-bit flash, watched 'em, liked 'em, then noticed that they were based on a comic. So I read this, liked it, and went through the links. And now I am a webcomic slut, jumping from webcomic to webcomic. Thanks a LOT, Clevinger

[Swordopolis]

My first webcomic too. Been reading it since about episode 250. Actually, though, I never joined the forum until a friend (IM, Chatroom freak) told me to log on. strangely, I told him 'bout 8bt.

[The Wizard Who Did It]

Year ago my friend told me about this comic. Since it ussually takes me a while to start new things he bombarded me with quotes every day from the comic. After two weeks I started reading it and downed the archive in two days.
Funny enough, from here I have started reading about 9 different web comics, but oh well.

[Lycanthrope]

Hmm... 8-Bit Theater, the Gateway Webcomic...

[KidRichard]

8-bit was my first web comic as well. I was directed here by a small frame in Electronic Gaming Monthly depicting BM and WM. That was something like 4 years ago. At any rate, it was before he had reached 100 comics. I think it was somewhere around the "Survivor 8-bit Style" comics, but I'm not for sure.

[Fox]

I heard about it a lot on BnG and see several references scattered around the net, so I came to see what it was all about.
I'm glad I did.

[Fortis Nova]

I first found 8 bit theater from a link at the Planet Zebeth website.

[Tek]

I remember seeing it on a guild on another forum, just the first two episodes. Theyre awesome^^

[TheRelinquished]

I'll never forget my first contact with 8-bit. I was browsing through another forum and I came across an interesting signature. It read:

"Well, you know what they say: 'The corpse you find may be your own.'"
"They do not say that."
"Well it is hard to speak with six inches of knife sticking out of your face. Mostly they just gurgle....And bleed...."
~Sig courtesy of 8-bit theatre

I laughed myself into a stupor when I read that, and became intrigued by this "8-bit theatre". But having been chained to dial-up internet, I didn't have the initiative with seek it out. Fortunately, one of my best friends soon discovered it on his own, and he later introduced me. I've been hooked since the first episode. ^_^

[Feyd-Rautha]

I was first shown it through a friend of mine. One day he's like, "You really should read 8-Bit Theater." I didn't at first, but they kept referencing it and eventually I checked it out. I then spent hours a day for a week reading the first 100 and 60-some comics on my dial up connection. After reading 20 a day and getting caught up I've been an avid reader ever since and that was 3 years ago. So HUZZAHH!!! to Brian.

[Entity]

I guess the intelligent and sarcastic point of view from Brian's labyrinth-like mind, is probably what inspired me to start comicking in the first place. He manages to transform pixels into practically real-life people with sub-human qualities.

[Darkheart_7]

It's pretty apparent that 8-Bit Theatre was a huge hit long before I learned of it a few weeks ago. What caused you to stumble on this awesome site?
I was watchin flash films and saw a link, now I'm an avid fan.

[Mondt]

Flashplayer.com back when the first flash was popular. Watched it. I told my friend to watch it. He did. Then he googled 8-bit theatre. This came up. He read the first like 100, then told me. Now I read each one the day it comes out... actually the day before. Since i live in the Midwest (Woohoo!) I get comics at 11 o'clock PM Monday, Wednesday, and Friday =p

[Kitana Paladine]

I was reading a thread in an FF forum on game FAQS, and kept seeing quotes from 8Bit theater, like "Sweet zombie Jesus on a pogo stick! We're screwed." in peoples' sigs. So, I got curious, found the site for the comics, and started reading from Episode 1, and worked my way forward. Took me about two weeks to get caught up, and now I'm glad I did. This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen...

[green ones make me horny]

I think I started around 186 after the Chocobo remix preloader on Newgrounds. I just got a new computer after 2 years without one so now i can read 8BT again yay! :fighter:I like swords

[Art of Hilt]

Alright. This is how it went.

Wikipedia. I think I was studying the downfall of the Russian Tzar. And then I realized, Wikipedia might know everything. So I wrote down the most random thing that came to mind; a pokemon. A lo and behold, pokemon! Somehow, that made me type in Wizard. Then that made me click on "The Wizard Who Did It" link. Which got me to "All Your Base". Which got me back to Wizard. Which got me to Black Mage. Which got me to 8-Bit Theater, which then I gasped, as I just finished playing FF1. Then I went to Sprite Comics, then back to 8-Bit Theater, found the link, and lo and behold! I read through the entire archive all through the day, until I reached Black Mage's destruction on a supply ship after escaping the Ice Caves.

All thanks to Wikipedia ^^

[naruto]

A friend of mine was reading 8bt one day in english class instead of doing his essay and i kinda started reading along and "PRESTO" i was hooked.

[Traptz of Poetic Poison]

A friend told me it was godly...Turns out he was right...

[Sephiroth-Reborn]

Saw it on NewGrounds And Checked it out

[Ron_Lugge]

What drew me in?... hrm, I was using my BM avatar and someone asked me if it was from here. It wasn't, but I followed the link into pure Hottness of 8-Bit theatre. The COOLEST webcomic bar (possibly) one (www.sluggy.com).

[Kraito]

Pie.

[animemangavg]

my friend told me about it

[ELCodeo]

I was hanging out with a friend on IRC one day and he linked me. We thought it was crazy hilarious. A few months later I joined the forums, became the hugest spammer to ever hit np, then reformed and somehow convinced Brian to make me a moderator.

There was no blackmail involved. No, really.

Best part is I met my soon-to-be-wife thanks to nuklearpower!

Lastly, gonna sticky this topic and make it permanent. It pops up often enough and people tend to like it. So, this topic will remain open until otherwise decided upon.
dude u have the sweetest icon and also howe do i get an icon im new at this i just made my file

[animemangavg]

yeah you are newer then me and i just joined too...
anyways....
my friend showed me the flash movie first...
i liked them so that is when i started reading them

[Seran]

Well, it was in GAIA Online [[ oh how everyone hates its new layout ]] and my new Legend of Zelda roleplay guild had opened up. One of the players, Cevian, basically introduced the 8-Bit Theater characters into the OoC Thread. It started out with a Dungeons & Dragons Flash that put them in it, then the endless babble of Fighter's "I like swords" along with Red Mage's insane talk of a "Natural 20". I was intrigued, and my roleplay had started in March. The guild opened in...I don't know and care.
So, it was in September perhaps, when I first came to 8-Bit Theater. Namely Nuklearpower dot com. I read around a hundred and fifty episodes, and I was happy. But for some reason, I stopped.
Due to the recent inactivity of the entire Internet [[ how cruel must fate be! ]], I returned to 8-Bit Theater and immediately continued reading.
Now I am happy once more.
Not to mention I also recently obtained Dawn of Souls!
Which, in Red Mage's eyes, had somehow increased my fanatic...ness...of 8-Bit Theater! But even so, Black Mage remains my favorite character, through and through, even if he is slightly nuts when it came to White Mage's presence.

[Xeta]

On flashplayer.com, there is a flash movie called 8-bit theater. I watched them and they were awesome. I decided to see what 8-bit theater was like, and I got addicted to the site as if it were heroin. Not in the bad sense, of course ;)

[Guy With Huge Swords]

A guy on GameFAQS posted a link to this site.

[Bobbey]

I discovered the 8-bit theather purely by accident...I had nothing to do one friday night(wich is exceptionnaly rare) and i decided to play on google.com...when I say play, i mean that I actually go on the image section of the site and type in only one word to see what happens(yes, when I have nothing to do, I REALLY have nothing to do).
Anyway, on that particular night, after a few hours of ''doing nothing'', I decided to type in the word ''stupid'', juste to see what would pop up...that's when I saw Fighter and Black Mage for the first time on the strip where there in a shopping mall.
So,in about two weeks, I had read every strip written in the 8-bit theather section by brian and almost forgot to study for my term exams(here, we call them ''sessions''...in french...dammit.)
Then I joined in, and here I am.Thank God!!
[QUOTE]The wheel is turning, but the hamster's dead.[QUOTE]

[Ultima08]

the flash movies on newgrounds took about a year before i checked the comics
1 year wasted

[Seran]

Four years wasted for me, man.

[Yakubyougami]

I was in the middle of an argument on a forum when I stated a contempt for most sprite comics - - so the person I was arguing gave me the link to nuklearpower, I liked the comic enough to join the forum.

[jewish demon]

I was looking for 8-bit pictures to turn into disigns for animal crossing, and I found 8-bit theatre.

[Metal Shadow X]

My friend told me about the animated version on Newgrounds, I learned about this site. I learned about a year ago, I started reading all the episodes, but stopped for a while, I just finished the recent one a couple of hours ago.

[Monodi]

Newgrounds :D

[Drumbum42]

My friend told me about this site.

[MegaAxeAttack]

I heard about it from a friend who said it was danged funny.

Saw a sample someone sent me via e-mail.

Hooked instantly :P

[Yakubyougami]

It appeared to me in a dream.

[Robert Paulson]

A friend of mine told me about 8 bit theater back in early 2004, and I've been hooked ever since.

[blackmagerocks]

a friend told me about it when we were discussing another rpg-webcomic, saying i would like this one too

[Rocketlex]

I'd heard a lot about it, mostly hearing people saying that this or that sprite comic/animation reminded them of 8-Bit Theater. Given the name, I at first thought it was a series of flash cartoons. One day curiousity just got the better of me and I typed "8-bit theater" into a search engine.

[Jared Todd]

Ooooh.. lotsa noobs to the forum, but not to the comic, I suppose. I guess I'm not the only one. As if that wasn't obvious.
A friend told me about it a year or so ago, and I went to it 2 months later. I spent like.. 3 days non-stop reading until the latest comic.

[arch]

I was introduced to it by a few friends of mine, and took my time at work (which would probably be otherwise spent staring blankly at the monitor) to read through the comic.

I quickly became attached and brought other friends along for the ride.

It's hysterical.

[Angelic Luck]

One day, I was chatting on AIM and I told a friend I was extremely bored. He then posted a link, "http://www.nuklearpower.com" and said to read this. And so I did. It quickly became my favourite webcomic. I always looked forward to reading it on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. And I continued to read it for more than 2 years now.

[Bweetza]

I'm fairly new to Nuklear Power. While I had seen links to the animated comics on Newgrounds, I never watched them as I am not a Final Fantasy fan, and thought they would be full of FF inside jokes. I eventually became bored with the movies, and decided to see the actual comics.

While webcomics have always interested me, I found this one was somehow different. The use of 8-bit sprites in conjunction with well done photoshop tricks make for a winning art combination. The obviously overexaggerated use of RPG stereotypes make for hilarious situations.

I think the comics also appeal to so many due to the variety of jokes. On the one hand we have well thought out jokes with elaborate punchlines, such as Black Mage's refusal to fight Chaos as an idea, and the recent gray Thief joke, while on the other hand we have Black Mage's stabbity antics and constant attempts to hit on White Mage.

I apologize that this has become a "why I love 8-bit theater" post, but it wasn't just finding this site that matters, its what made me stay.

[magicguy909]

i am a final fantasy fan and well just an RPG fan in general. so naturaly when my friend tolded me about a web comic about final fantasy i was compeled 2 read it. it is the greatest thing ive found on the web so far.

[Crimson Flame]

Oh gaia there was this topic "Vivi vs. 8-bit theater black mage"

That game me the sudden urge to watch the flashes all over again so I did. Then I stumbled upon the site and it was magic from then on. I just finished reading all of the comics.

[theif_fan_41449]

a friend told me about it when i was showin him my nunchucks and he said do you have sword-chucks and staff-chucks too???(laughs):thief:

[Kaelus]

Found it on VGCats' links. xD

[Infinite]

I've been a reader since episode 150 or so, just joined the forum now though.
I think my friend first sent me a link, but it was so long ago that I'm not really sure.

[blAck_mag3_RULEZ]

What drew me in was I was going to watch chocobo robo voice but I decided to click on the pre loader instead. I instantly fell in love with 8 bit theater.:fighter: :rmage: :bmage: :thief:

[dark butterfree]

i also found it from chocobo robo voice, the flash movie. but after clicking on the preloader, i had no idea what the hell the site was all about, so i completely overlooked it. a few weeks later, a friend (who had also found the site from the aforementioned flash movie) told me how funny 8BT was, and, taking his word, i checked it out fully. i have been an undying fan ever since, which is a year or so now.

[WingedLion]

The guys in my local RPG club talked a lot about this comic and the I started to read it from the first issue to the last (the best two weeks of my life). Now I can't stop to read it.

[Anubis]

I stumbled upon it while looking around and laughted myself senceless

[Grug]

Followed a link from penny-arcade a little over a year ago. Although the jokes seemed pointless and obvious at first, after reading through all the previous comics I had become hooked.

Since then I have had success at getting others hooked here too, but only if they start form the beginning. For example seing a 'black' mage that is dressed in blue with crappy pants and proclaiming how good he looks (#657) seems meaningless without the previous 25 strips.

Anywho, I am now an addict and find myself constantly refreshing the comic page on update days in anticipation =)

[Valor]

Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is a star wars game, and i were on a forum there, in the clan when sum1 named: Phobia Or sumthing posted the link, lol!!

SO I STARTED FROM comic 1 to 656 now ^^

[Skit]

I found it while watching the prelude for the Chocobo Robo Mix flash movie on Newgrounds, by Legendary Frog.

[Raikoh_Minamoto]

I discovered it from a link in Planet Zebeth, which I dscovered as a link from a web page listing sites that insult Jack Thompson.:p

[Proxi]

A friend directed me here, I laughed hard at the first several, forgot about it for about a month. Then one day I got bored, found my way back here and spent the next several hours reading it over and over again. The sad part is that it only took me a single day of being bored. It was great because I went to school the next day, sat down, and looked at my friend. When he asked me about my weekend I said Hadoken. After 10 seconds or so he finally stopped laughing.

[Technocloud]

Saw a 8-bit theatre on Newgrounds. Love them, thought they are some espiodes after xD Like 600...

Anyway the comic rock stones!

[Gilionaire]

I discovered 8-bit from my guild in neopets, someone had one of the comics as their user lookup and where they got it from so i checked it out and then i couldnt stop reading it. after a few short weekends i have finally caught up and read all 660 comics. I also intend to buy the book as well because Brian is obviosly a comical genius.

[tacticslion]

I don't remember how I came across the comic (possibly something to do with searching either for 'webcomics' or 'nuclear physics') but I remember very well when I started reading it. I believe (though again it's hard to remember all the details precisely) that I started reading around the first giant appearance episode, and found that not only a) was it a very funny comic that I enjoyed, but b) it was about final fantasy. The latter made me check it out from the beginning (admittedly not that much earlier at the time), the former made me save it to my favorites and check it regularly for several weeks. I then promptly proceeded to get knocked offline, have finals at college, and forget it ever existed. About a year later, I was pruning my favorites, having once again re-acquired the internet on my computer), found it, and re-read it from the beginning. Instantly addicted (again) as I was, I've been a faithful reader since.

[Jaeger]

A friend of mine told me about it and used jokes from it incessantly, so I decided to check it out to see what it was all about.

That was 6 years ago........

[Charm]

Hey!

I just started reading Ctrl Alt Del a month back and someone mentioned 8Bit.. I had a look and liked BM instantly... he is just so me! but I didn't know the story and so took me a couple of days, but I read through the entire archive and got up-to-date.

:)

[yozshura]

I really don't know how i found it, but it was an accident that happened while on google.

[Kuponutmog]

I was searching for Final Fantasy parodies one time, after i stumbled upon "Final Fantasy A+" and that boco robo voice song, and found episode one and two of 8-bit theatre. they were hilarious so i started reading the comics. I started reading when they were at about episode 550. Took me a few months to find time to read through them all, and when i finally read them all, they were at about 655.

Damn good isnt it

[bolevar321]

I was searching for Final Fantasy parodies one time, after i stumbled upon "Final Fantasy A+" and that boco robo voice song, and found episode one and two of 8-bit theatre. they were hilarious so i started reading the comics. I started reading when they were at about episode 550. Took me a few months to find time to read through them all, and when i finally read them all, they were at about 655.

Damn good isnt it
It hooked me that way too, but much earlier than 550
I think I first got into it when they were floating around in a dead universe.

[Cevian]

My sister told me about the characters and some of the jokes, like the "GP or HP" line and HADOKEN! She then told me not to read it. I then went and watched the first 3 movies on NG and started to read the comic.

[Skatzo]

It was TLF for me... and his flash animations... i just thought... ok... extremely funny video... based on comics....ergo comics must go beyond video..... GOTTA READ GOTTA READ GOTTA READ

[Lucis]

I can't remember just when I started reading 8BT - I was introduced to it once back when comic #20 or so was new, didn't read it for awhile, and came back around #130-something, and was a semi-regular reader. Some time after that, I started lurking on the forums. Eventually, instincts told me to de-lurk and so here I am.

[ViewtifulBob1138]

I hope I haven't posted here already...

I found the 8-Bit D&D flash on NG first, which got me interested in 8BT. Eventually, when the fifth 8BT flash was released on NG, I watched, enjoyed, and immediately sought out the other four. Then I had no choice but to come to nuklearpower.com and enjoy the comic.

[Leon-the-Dark-Knight]

One of my friends pointed out 8-Bit Theatre to me a couple of months ago. I finally started to read it in earnest about two weeks ago, and I made it to episode 669 two days ago. Its a great comic, and it follows the original ff pretty well. I love that game, which is the main reason I love 8-Bit Theatre. I am looking forward to episode 670. Final Fantasy forever baby! :D

[NeoSuplex]

I saw a link to this comic from another yet another Web Comic, SOM Theatre. Once I saw BM read a strategey guide for the game he was while Fighter was being killed and then prove that he obviously could have ended the fight long ago by fireing a Street Fighter style Hadoken (complete with SF Sound effects supplied by my imagination) I thought I was hooked. Then, I saw a character steal stuff that didn't even belong to his victims yet.

And as if that wasn't enough, A Red Mage complete with character introduced himself with 'Excelsior.' I mean, wtf. That doesn't make any sense. I was about 400 eps behind, so I read comics til my eyes bled.

Then, I got glasses.

[chocobo_man]

It was either watching 8-bit D&D, or my friends told me, i cant remember

[Blue mage42666]

I watched the 8-bit theater's made by the spin-off crew, and they were hilarious, eventually I got impatient of wating for the next one and went to the comics. about 4 months later I'm posting on the forums. "weeeee" to quote fighter.

[Sorrow_Hobbit]

My brother (known to some as Rathier) introduced me to it. Actually, I cursed it for a while, because him looking at comics lagged me a lot, and then I read it, simply to see if they were as good as he said they were.

Suspicions confirmed. I am now Brian's 8,747th fan.

[Ryong]

I was taking a look at Bob & George's Link page one day.I saw 8-bit theater.I thought it'd be good.I started reading it and just thought it was awesome.That was like, 4 months+ ago.

[MuMu]

I was looking for sprite flashs on newgrounds when I stumbled upon this. Here Am I now.

[Mezic]

I was told by a friend and thought I might as well check it out.

[death_trooper]

Me and my brother were were on newgrounds and stumbled upon the heaven which is 8-bit theater flash animation.
THEN i went to the heaven that is 8-bit theater comic.

[Martamania]

I was talking to this guy on AIM, and he showed me a link to one of the guest comics, "Uneventful Reunion." That, in turn, led to me starting to read the main comic.

[happy_turtle]

A friend of mine told me I should start reading it because I reminded him of Red Mage with the whole "pride" thing going on.

[Himeo]

Way back when (I think around 2000) I followed a link from Bigpanda here. I've been reading once or twice a month since then.

I remember sending him an e-mail from my old AOL account about how cool his comics were. If I recall correctly, he said I was the first person to send him a fan mail... Or was it a positive fan mail? My memory is pretty fuzzy. :)

[EVILNess]

I followed a link from a preloader from some Legendary Frog flash I was watching at the time, Been a reader ever since.

[greed]

Saw somebody quoting BM on a GameFAQS forum, laughed my arse off, asked them where they got it from and went here, read for about 4 months then joined the forums, so far only my second (third if you get count when GameFAQS got joined to ecch Gamespot).

[El Mariachi]

Link in Ctrlaltdel-online.com

[Paladin Leon]

I'd say the flash animations on Newgrounds. I was just lazily walking along FF Colecitons avenue, and I stumbled upon TLF's house, aka 8-bit Theater. I laughed so insanely hard that I watched it over and over and over again, until I finally noticed (D'oh!) that there was a link to nuklearpower.com. So, I click, I came here. First I thought it was all flash. (My hopes and dreams were shattered like a cookie in my pants when taking a groin hit) But it was still halarious. Since then I was hooked.

[Tk-421]

I managed to find this site because I was tired of just reading Bob & George so I went to there link page, thought 8-bit theater was intresting, and started reading.

[Demonlink2]

Friend reffered me; I reffered 5 friends and obtained "2 cows"; My friends didn't.

[8-Bit Idiot]

I found out about 8bt through the animated flash series on Newgrounds, loved them, went to the site, read the comics, and loved them.

[Leon_88]

Friend from school, he had just caught up to the latest episode, forgot which one it was.

Started reading them when I was bored, then I found myself reading them all the time, heh.

[Iyeru]

Definately it was when I stumbled upon it in newgrounds.com and saw the name. So I just typed it in and POOF!

[beatobur]

In high school we had a totally lame computer enginerring class. My friends were nerds, I'm a nerd. They thought I'd like 8-Bit. I decided, what the heck, why not I'll try it out. I think I read a hundred episodes that day, I've since read it probably 3-4 times in it's entirety. It's like a favorite book that I keep coming back to. So yeah word of mouth totally did it for me.

[Iyeru]

In high school we had a totally lame computer enginerring class. My friends were nerds, I'm a nerd. They thought I'd like 8-Bit. I decided, what the heck, why not I'll try it out. I think I read a hundred episodes that day, I've since read it probably 3-4 times in it's entirety. It's like a favorite book that I keep coming back to. So yeah word of mouth totally did it for me.

It's a good thing that I got through all of those episodes in like 4 days. (Basically)

Or wait, maybe it WASN'T so good... my head is starting to hurt. Now stare into the signature that I can't put in my signature because code is off for signatures.

[img]http://iyeru42.zero-outpost.com/images/signatures/bmage_signa1.png

And if that doesn't work try this link (http://iyeru42.zero-outpost.com/images/signatures/bmage_signa1.png) (It may go offline sometimes because DNS is kinda screwy)

[Alex_Leo]

i was drawn on flashplay i was going through all the movies and i saw the 4th 1 i didnt watch insted i went to see the 1st 1 i watched the 1st 4 then about a month after i found the website and began reading the comics then i red about 100 of them a day ut that prossess began 2 days ago im on comic 201 then i disided to become this member thing

[yobacimonaf]

I either saw the link somewhere in one of those "Recommend me some PWNsome webcomics" that you see pooping up from time to time on boards, or I saw those flashes of the first couple of episodes on NewGrounds. Can't exactly remember which one it was :/

[P-Sleazy]

the massive amounts of porn available.

My friend told me about this place and I kinda started reading it, read a few of the first few, but didn't get REALLY into it until they reached the town.

Seriously, the Porn starts there and it ends here on the forums. Addictive it be.

[Iyeru]

the massive amounts of porn available.

My friend told me about this place and I kinda started reading it, read a few of the first few, but didn't get REALLY into it until they reached the town.

Seriously, the Porn starts there and it ends here on the forums. Addictive it be.

Kinda like when I started reading RPG World Comic. Those were some good days back then... [pause] good days.

And NO, P0rn doesn't stop there, it stops [walks aways and stops.] over here.

[Ipsofacto]

What drew me to 8-bit? Well... hmm... Firstly I love Final Fantasy(didn't I tell you? my hero name is Captain Obvious!), and one day I stumbled upon the animations in Newgrounds... and then I laughed. With that in mind I set off to discover more about this 8-Bit Theatre and boy did I hit the motherload. All this, and my friend kinda tipped me off about the site and all...

[Chaoswizard]

i got bored a few years back and searched for web comics and POOF. i have just recently joined forums:sweatdrop

[Zerogouki]

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[GuyNumberForty]

I frequent Newgrounds.com (2ndXenocide) and stumbled across a parody of the 5th 8BT flash. I saw the actual 8 Bit Theatre flashes and then read the comic. after playing an 8 hour game of catch up, I decided, join the forum.

[Shishio]

If I remember correctly, I looked it up after hearing about it on the internet, and seeing a good skit performed by cosplayers at a convention masquerade.

[Lithiren]

Well to be frank, I was drawn to 8BT when I was in medical seperation while in the navy, now that I got released, I have read every 8BT comic

[JustAnotherFan]

I got drawn to 8-bit thx to some guys who posted quotes from 8-bit theatre and I think it's funny. Then I went to nuklear power and start reading it. It's good and one of the best webcomics I've ever read.

[Elbodo]

A few years ago a couple of college friends first told me about 8-bit. Our D&D sessions were peppered with "Welcome to Corneria!" - "I like swords!" and "Your GP or your HP." I kept meaning to get on line and check it out, but somehow I never got around to it.

A couple of weeks ago (it now being about 2 - 3 years later) my nephew was telling me about another webcomic that he reads (I think it's called Order of the Stick). As he described it to me, I suddenly remembered the comic my friends had described to me years previous.

"Hey, I like swords too," I thought. So I sat down and Googled 8-bit Theater (how I remembered the name of a webcomic I'd never read after not thinking of it for a few years is a mystery beyond my meager comprehension but I'm sure glad I did) and read the entire run (it was up to Episode 706) in two days.

Now I'm slightly loopy (from the massive 8-bit download directly into my only-human conciousness) but also permanently addicted.

[Nacredem]

About a year and a half ago my friend asked me "Do you like comics?" and of course i replied "OF COURSE!!!" So he told me to go to here... and i was hipnotized hipnotized hipnotized hipnotized

[sephiroth]

wut drew me to this site?....
hmmmm let see.

ok so my friend told me about newgrounds.com and i went there once everyweek for about 7 months. then i looked up ff paradies. and the first parody was 8-bit theater. and the author gave all his credit to brian. and on his 2nd episode he posted the website to nuklearpower.com and i wanted to know wut happened next after the two fisted monkey style. and voila i ended up here. although i just found out about the forum 4 days ago. Same here guss us sepiroth-jenova-spawn clones think alike!

[Mx_xD]

Well, like a month ago I was bored and then I liked to see videogames parodies, so I found the Newgrounds page and blah blah blah.... *1 hour later*... and then I saw the whole comic, in one day... you would image my eyes...xD.. well anyway, i just was boring and by a miracle I found this page and NOW I'M HAPPY WHEEEEEEEEEE

[Padrino]

I remember finding out about it from a friend.

I've been playing all of the Final Fantasy games since I got my first Nintendo as a 5-year old. I've been playing the FF RPG's since then and to be honest, reading this comic just reminds me of how rediculous, yet true the original game was. The way each character is portrayed, it reminds me the pros and cons of each character in the game. And the added storyline is just simply comical!

Good job, Brian. You're the first I've seen to actually take something that most gamers remember, and turn it into something even moreso enjoyable.

[Theif]

I was just playing on newgrounds.com and found 8-bit theater. The fourth movie flash thingy had a link to this place and... well... it's based on like one of my favorite games ever... EVER!
and it was EXTREMELY funny so i kept reading.

[Squidmaster]

I found this webcomic after my first encounter with ff1 via the remake on the gba. i was searchin for ideas to help my self narroration of the game more funny by scanning through the FF parodies in newgrounds when i found the chocobo robo voice done by Legendary frog. in the preloader (since im still stuck on dialup) the 8-bit sprites did a skit, and i then researched the 8 bit source, and tada, found the site.:D

[Sword-chucks, yo!]

I was drawn here by my friend who wouldn't shut up until I started reading.

[byrd]

AHHH to think back to the dark ages shortly before i read 8BT. i was a GINOURMUS zelda fan. still am but i had never really played any FFs mainly because I just dont like the playstation. any way i heard a man on newgrounds name joseph blanchette (sp?) AKA Legendary frog created something called the return of ganondorf with showcased the evil one doing the chicken dance thus i HAD to see it. later on i veiwed his other hilarious shorts. I then looked at omething that read chocobo remix. I having no idea what a chococbo was i clicked on it. and that was a preloadr that changed my life. i started reading it but not often and i eventually forgot about it. then late one night i was bored so i tried to remember that comic tht brought me great joy. alas i couldnt remeber to spell nuklear with a k and also forgot where i first heard if from. then a year or so later i returned t legendary frog to see some new stuff and watched the chocobo remix and it all came flooding back. but i couldnt remember where i left off so i quit again. but then at the begining of this summer i read from ep 001 to 709 several times introuduced 2 friends to it saved the archives to a flash drive and joined the fourums. this has now become part of my daily routine.
THANKS BRIAN!!!

--Byrd

[Caesarius]

Hmmmm, mindless violence and gratuitous explosions. That's what drew me to 8BT

[Lady Cygnet]

I found 8-Bit Theatre after the heroes of Secret of Mana Theater did a crossover episode. I'm back to reading 8BT after a couple of years away (divorce, losing a baby, and having a computer crash can do that to a girl), and now that I've caught up here, I've joined (or re-joined--I can't remember) the forums, and I've begun to catch up on SoMT as well. :cool:

[Jack Dandy]

I was dwran in after I fallowed a link form Life of willy to Bob and George then to here. God bless linking.

[spoonfighter]

I saw TLF's stuff on Newgrounds and after watching all four of the episodes he's done(there's five now) I decided to read the real thing.

[Corporate Evil]

I was linked from some crappy Zelda comic.

[Geza]

For me, I saw a movie on a website called Newgrounds, after I saw it, I loved it, and I learned that it was based on a web/sprite comic, I make sprite comics myself, so I wanted to see this.
I googled it, and I became attached to it, I spent the whole night reading every single panel of the comic... and now, I'm upset because they have this whole "story" thingy going on.

[Crystal Chronicler]

i was drawn by watching 8-bit theatre on newgrounds and it was love at first sight. (it also inspired me to start on my own final fantasy comic!)

[excelfanboy]

A few months back I started reading Megatokyo as my first webcomic, then I was just wanting more! Then one day Shirt Guy Dom's picture for his comments wasn't working and it said... OOp Ack! so I went to oopack.com to find a link to giantitp.com, after finishing up catching up I took a link to RPGworld comic and (after a very dissaspointing halt) found a link to 8-Bit Theatre and it is the best comic around

[Cephrir]

I saw the flash on flashplayer about a year a go, then recently I watched it again and decided to click the link. That was a couple weeks ago. Within a few days I read everything in the archives.

[Elbozaburnin2]

i first came across it while reading the comics on VgCats and saw the guest comic Scott did so i decided to check it out... that was about a year ago and ever since iv been addicted

[Derek]

Im a flash artist, and one day I was looking for sprites to use in a movie, when I stumbled across a sprite comic called Crash and Bass, It isn't as funny as 8 BT, but it's fairly funny itself, On the bottom of all the pages, there was a debt of inspiration from Bob and George, which isn't really funny at all. I clicked, and it was A&E biography month, and It said something about Him "inspriring" 8 bit theatre the most popular sprite comic. So I went to his links page, and there it was. It takes a while to read this comic, Im on 2002 years.

[hbomb]

Probably viewing the Flash movie versions and tributes on newgrounds.com. I just thought "hey, meybe I should check it out!" And I did. Pity I only signed up at the forums about a year after starting reading the comic.

[Nayno]

I've known about 8-Bit for a while, maybe since about five years ago. I think I probably followed a link from either RPG World or Adventurers! webcomics. I found out about THEM by following a comic posted in someone's signature. Boy, the internet was so much different back then. It was a world in which you could post an entire comic in your signature and still get away with it.

Oh, well, anyway... comics about video games = instant win.

[Khael!]

One lazy-ass day a year or two ago, my good buddy and dungeon master grabbed me by my hair and demanded I read this 'nuklear' thing. I forget if a knife was involved... A chuckle or two, and I said I'd read more later to appease him.

Not that I ever intended to.

Then I won a PSP! Yeah, won. I owe it to my incredibly brilliant awesomeness. I hooked the thing up to the internet and started surfing my usual destinations. I attempted chatting. Then e-mail. Do you know what sucks about PSP? You can't freaking type anything faster than the SPEED OF SLOW. :gonk:
Gonk indeed, little emote.

I was enraged... Until it dawned on me. Webcomics don't require realtime responses or even thinking of them. Hell, unless your a McWarrior, you don't need to think at all to get the jokes. And so I took up reading Brian's comic in place of sleeping.

My PSP is like a familiar to me now. As long as I feed it a direct current, it supplies me with the bonuses of 8-bit Theatre, and my DM calls me 'Red Mage' instead of 'idiot' since I finally get the reference.

[Whale Biologist]

I found 8-Bit back around Episode 30... and been hooked-ed-ed.

[rilo_2000uk]

My friend john who I met at uni showed it to me at around the #350 mark and I have been reading it ever since. It's just that awesome!

[Stabbity_Man]

Several friends on GameFAQs told me.

[Fighter=Genius]

I just got into webcomics earlier this year and I whenever I would finish one I'd go to the links and look through them until I found a decent one to read. I got here from VGCats and I've been addicted ever since.:D

[bender007]

I found it on a porn site
and I'm serious

[soulslash]

my friends brothers girlfirned told them about vgcats.com.he told me about vgcats,so i went there i thought it was sweet ,theres a comic there about 8-bit then one day i was like, what is 8 bit anyway so i went to the links and then i was addicted forever more.

[Mazyrian]

A cousin of mine told me when I went to his city in summer

[Random Ninja]

It was 2:30 in the morning, and I decided to read the entire archive, which I did...over two days...after watching all the flash movies on NG and saving them to my computer.

[Zalgon 26 McGee]

Reading 300 issues in one night.

When I woke up in the hospital, constantly referring to everyone else by their class, I knew I had found something special.

[[G]host]

Oh man, I can't begin to tell you how happy I was when I discovered 8-Bit. It was about 4 years ago now, and I've been hooked ever since. I still remember reading through myriads of comics while I was supposed to be taking calls (internet tech support). I still remember the awkward silences when I couldn't hold back laughing and couldn't reach my mute button in time. Ahh, the memories.

I initially got excited because of the very idea of a webcomic about FF Classic, and then got hooked very quickly because of Brian's comedic genius.

[Binerexis]

I first saw a strip a couple years ago but the bastard who showed it me (he had printed it off) said that it was on the internet but he did it and wasn't gonna gimme the URL.

I found it the next day after typing "Cool FF comic thing" on google

[Redhawk]

A friend told me about it. Ruining the Armoire of Invincibilty joke in the process.

Two years later, I'm trying to read about eleven different webcomics. They're like an addiction that can only be fed by more Tim Buckley, R.K. Milhorand (Or however the hell you spell his name), Chris Hazelton, and Lucas Daniel.

[DavidG]

I can't remember exactly, but I think I saw somebody quote it, got intrigued, and Googled it.

[Alexeon]

@Byrd. The archives on a flash drive? Just curious, but how big is the file all together?


I found 8BT by clicking on a link from http://elflife.com/ a long time ago. It might have been around 2001-ish... This has been my favorite webcomic since. I clicked on the link because I saw a little picture of BM doing a hadoken with the 8BT name in the blast. I remember that moment exactly. It took me four days to catch up with the archives. I had dial-up back then... Man, I had to actually stop and take a ten minute break from the hilariousness. Too much 8BT at the same time is bad for your health from the amount of laughter.

[Sheik]

Heh. It was months ago.. On the Forums of Subeta.org.. Always had been a fan of webcomics, and I fell instatnly in love with Black Mage. After about the first dozen or so strips I thought, "Oohh, so Black Mage is evil!" And I 'member when I foud out that Fighter was a moron..

[Painful Affair]

I saw some flashes on the web and became interested.

[Amake]

You know, actually reading this whole thread would be an olympian feat. I bet there's like five funny posts in it. And the information presented? I doubt it's useful to anyone at this stage.

Just putting it out there. :)

[Zankuu]

I blame the internet for why i'm here.

[Jonesman64]

Well I first saw a friend (read: dude who sat next to me in the comp lab) reading it in school and asked him what it was... his replay if I remember correctly was "WTF U Don't KNOW 8BIT? STFU NUUB!!"


well being highly confused... and after reading a page over his shoulder... I got hooked!


After reading for a couple of years... I discovered the forums...:D

[Snook]

I can recall the exact strip that I started reading 8-Bit Theatre at. Strip 188. It was August 25th, 2002... A sunday, according to the date on the comic. ;) I've been reading it religiously ever since. It's kindof become a staple of my e-life, much like certain forums I frequent.

Actually, considering it now, that's 4+ years of following the comic. I wonder how many others can claim that.

Oh, and I found it through an article in Game Informer, touting it as a hilarious webcomic.

[Arstein]

I was shown it by a friend like... 3 years ago? I can't remember... Maybe 4 years ago now... I've been around daily since then though... Just never bothered joining the forum until last night... ^^;

>.>; Yeah... Black Mage is my Anti-Hero ^^ Yay for evil that is saving the world!

[Oodelally]

I found out about it through mates laughing about evil pie. After seeing it for myself, i was hooked. I am only human after all

[Wardstone]

I was recommended it by someone on gamefaqs 313 board and decided to read it awakening an obsession with Brian Clevingers comedic mind

[Aureq]

It was a couple or three years ago, but I still remember. I was very, very bored. I was trying to find something on these United Tubes of Internets that could keep me entertained. I've been a Final Fantasy fan since the first game, and was tooling around with Yahoo searches, looking for amusing Final-Fantasy related nonsense. I'd not heard of webcomics yet. 8-Bit Theater has been my gateway drug into the world of webcomics. ... Damn you Clevenger! Damn you and your incessant humorous retelling of my favorite game from my childhood! When will you release your iron grip on my very soul?

Also, squirrels.

[nocre]

I've known of 8-Bit Theater a lot longer than I've been reading it. Long while back, I stumbled across it but, for whatever reason, didn't stick around long enough to read any. Then, several months ago, I came back to the site and started reading. I read every single episode from first to last in the sum total of about a week. It wouldn't have taken me that long, but I had employment and educational duties, you know.

I absolutely love it. I was (and occasionally still am) somewhat depressed that I can't read through several new episodes without having to wait. I'm an avid reader and, web comic or not, I place 8-Bit up there with the best of 'em, near, if not on, par with Lamb by Christopher Moore, which is quite possibly one of my favourite books of all time.

Worth mentioning that I read all the 'news' that came along with each episode as well. :P

[Alexeon]

So do I. The news crack me up as much as the comic does. :)

[Thoma]

hehe like the title says a friend showed me a flash animation after that i wanted to know more so i started reading the whole series (in about 2 weeks i read the 700 episodes) i am still following it but i am to impatient to see what happens next i want episode everyday but not all things are possible

[Karenaide]

Just surfin' the 'net when I started watching the flash version. Then I clicked the banner and voila!

[Gascmark de Leone]

At Dragon-Warrior.com, there was a pretty funny comic. It's not finished, and I don't think it's even been worked on for a year or two, but it was (in my opinion) good. A couple of episodes featured Black Mage and some of the other FF characters. I think their might've been a link there. Whatever.

[grossguy1211]

i saw a link to it after watching 8 bit animated on newgrounds.com, heres an attempted link: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/72945. If it doesnt work just type that in the tool bar. click on the 8 bit theater icon for the other 4 episodes.
Halloween: a day to remember the dead. Black Belt, ure still alive in my heart
-The Black Mage Hater

[42PETUNIAS]

saw the flash version- not on newgrounds but on flashplayer.com- and i thought it was hillarious, i'd just read the comics non-stop when i found the site itself, and then got turned on to other online comics- leasticoulddo.com and bobandgeorge.com just because i couldnt stand waiting for the updates. but woah, seems like the online flashs were a really good business move

[Bisected8]

Some people on gamefaqs mentioned it so I looked it up on wikipedia. I then, as is my custom, proceeded to the site and read the entire archive, plus all the discontinued columns. That was last month and I signed up to this forum about 10 minutes ago.

[moogle301]

a clicking journey on wikipedia, which probably originated from seraching one of the final fantasies for trivia. the 8-bit page on wiki is very entertaining itelf, i liked the way they all ha dperonsalities and it was documented as if it all happened for real... which if course it did..

[ShadowXSnake]

After finding MallMonkeys, an old but now dead classic, I started looking around for more webcomics, and i found this gem.

Then I found other webcomics and forgot about it, but I've come back to the light at last. ^_^

the first time I visited was WAAY long ago though, the comic was practically brand new.

[maj225]

My bro told me to go here and it is awesome! now off to google
sword-chucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Meister]

I hope your future posts will have less exclamation marks.

[[.Devout.Kitten.]]

Yay, first post!

On a more relevent note, I was drawn here by my brother. He likes it. I don't know why I read the first comic in the first place, I'm usually so stubborn I purposefully stay away from my brother's interests. But I did. And, amazingly, here I am in the forum. Wow.

[One of Pwnage]

I saw a link on a FAQ for FF 1, back when B.M. took over the shoe store

[dr4Kan]

A friend told me about the site...
So I read all 769 that were up at the time in 2 nights...
Would have been 1 night if not for college...
The simple hilarity of it all kept me going...

[Ichigo]

THE FACT THAT THIEF OWNS ALL...and the fact that Blackmage can't stop killing things LOL...he hasn't killed anything in a while...he should go on a murderous rampage like he did in Dwarf country LOL

[Fadeyn]

Oddly enough one of my friends told me about the site after comparing me to BM when I went on a tangent and wanted to kill the next person who spoke to me.

I have grown fond of BM these many many months. (I started reading somewhere around number 200) Life would be so much simpler if I could just stab the really stupid people I am forced to work with in the face once in a while.

[Pixel8ed]

People where making jokes at our table of things such as "sword-chucks yo!" or "FIGHTER-DOKAN!!!" and I of course, being a geek, wished to know what the heck they where speaking of! So they pointed me in the direction of the site and I began laughing at such comical geniouses like "welcome to Corneria!" "I like swords" "Welcome to Corneria" "I like swords"....cuz it's true.

[kuebler elf]

I saw the animation on flashplayer and newgrounds.

[adman_23]

The flash videos got me hooked, I found them on flashplayer. I started at comic.... 234, by the time I read to 234 it was like 320.

[OctopusPrime]

I saw a link to it on some message board (I think it was Gamefaqs) waaaaaaaaaaaay back when BM broke that old mans "Brittle Old Man Hip"

And I never bothered to sign up for the forums until now. Good times. Goooooood times.

[Zeenux]

The idea of using sprites for a comic seemed unusual, and I thought some of the dialogue was silly, so here we are.

[Sertith]

I belive I found 8Bit on VGcats linky page. Now I'm sporting my BM Special Holiday Shirt :p

[Arinath]

A friend pointed out that it had the same sort of humour as mine, so i had a look, and have been addicted ever since.

Final Fantasy games were never the same again....

[Square Donut]

I saw the preloader in Chocobo robo voice and came here. Hooked ever since.

[Phoe]

Friend pointed it out and bored in school so decided to read all of them while working on the computer.
still hooked and drawing others to it

[blackcat]

my friend wanted me to see the "yah i am a bear" so i liked it and began to read it now i wait every day for the next one i just love it sooooooooooo much!

[Jared Todd]

A friend who I've lost a long time ago told me about this comic about way before the Light Warriors met Lich, and I bookmarked it with my other comics. Now there aren't any other comics I like (except the other comic fifthfiend really likes, but I can't remember the name of it) that I view a lot. and, hey, I'm making a game from it. How bad must I like it now, right?

[RivCA]

What drew me to the site originally, when it was on a different server and domain (8bittheater.com if I remember correctly) was someone pointing out Sinfest to me, first. I decided to see if there was a Final Fantasy comic on Google back in 2000. I've been reading ever since!

[Rasol]

I remember it like it was yesterday... but in reality, it was a LONG fuggin time ago. Like back in '02 a long time ago. Anyways, I was hanging out in a chat, and a freind of mine posted a link to "Episode 134: This Does Not Bode Well For Garland". From that point I was hooked, checking back daily. And really, not much has changed for me in that respect. The sad thing is.. it took me this long to join the forums... I am just lazy. Too lazy to commit evil sometimes.. but now that I have begun.. don't expect me to stop... until I get lazy again.

[Yuhven]

I've discovered from Yahtzee (http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/) The Only Good Comics On The Internet (http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/features/goodcomics.htm).

[Gclaw4444]

i think i heard about it from the animated comics on newgrounds

[bluestarultor]

I found it through VG Cats and the characters intrigued me. There's just something about the complexity of BM that I relate to. He does exactly what we all want to, but don't.