What drew you to 8-Bit Theatre?

[Brian_Clevinger_is_hott]

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?

[Iced Earth]

I can't remember how I found this comic in the first place but what kept me reading it is that it is a very funny comic based on one of my fav games ever.

[sephiroth666]

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.

[The Smiling Assasin]

I first came to this site after I saw the flash version on Newgrounds.

[Lycanthrope]

Let me see... if I remember correctly a friend of mine threatened to attack me with sword-chucks if I didn't read it.

[gaffit]

Well first I found Crash and Bass online which gave credit to it's inspiration to Bob and George. And on the boards over there a lot of people were talking about 8-bit theater so I came here.

[dementedmongoose]

I was trying to find some stuff on nuclear power, tried to go to this site, it was nuclearpower.com, but I accidentaly hit k instead of c, and I got pulled in.

[Krylo]

The fact that Brian Clevinger is, indeed, "hott". Note the use of two 't's, making him hotter than just plain "hot". Seriously though, that's the best user name I've ever seen.

Well, either that or a friend showed it to me when they were about 10 comics in. WM hadn't even been introduced yet, but it was still bloody hillarious, much like it is today. I've been addicted ever since.

[lazy man]

My friend told me to go to the site a while ago and, like he said, it was amazing. Been reading it now for about a year or two.

[Hamelin]

Brian is so not hot. Have you seen his picture? XD

Anyway, I've been around here since episode 26 Temp. I find the comic humorous.

[Brian_Clevinger_is_hott]

Firstly, it's cool how so many different ways can bring all these ppl to one place. Something to ponder, huh? Secondly, YES! I HAVE seen Brian's picture...when he made that executive thing. (Hilariously creative) I just love that goofy face at the end. And, why ty Krylo...:) Keep 'em coming, y'all...

[swordmaster]

One night, my crazy friend typed in "I like pie" into google. What he found was Weebl and Bob. He told me about this and I hung around there for a while. Eventually, I found Weebl's Stuff.com. Later, they liked to B3ta.com. I told my friend about this site and in return he told me about stickdeath.com. Later, he told me about Albino Black Sheep.com. From there, I looked into video game parodies and i found Black Mage VS White Mage at Mortisland.com. After about a month, I saw that he got the idea from, you guessed it, Nuklearpower.com. And the rest is history.

[MasterOfMagic]

I first saw it on Game Revolution's web comic page. Didn't think much of it, as I recall. Then, one day, I was bored, so I looked it up and read a few. Realized how funny it really was. Read for about 6 months, then got up enough courage to join the forum (first, and only forum I've been on).

[Otaku Son]

I was pointed here by a friend around episode 25 or so.

[C-dog]

That issue of EGM. 8-bit was the first webcomic I started reading.

[Atronflame]

A long, long time ago, Pierre (Fuitad for all you noobs out there) used to run a comic called FFGlory. Somehow I found it on google, and I read it up to the point where he stopped making it. Anyway, I was a member of the forums, and at one point Pierre started running TWC. (Top Web Comics) The forums changed, and a whole bunch of other comics were on TWC. Not so many at the time, but there was 8-bit Theater and a bunch of other ones. So, I started browsing the 8-bit theater forums and I started reading the comic.

Thats how it all started. 2 years later and Im still here. Time flies, eh?

[Mephisto]

I'm another one who saw the animations on newgrounds.com. I watched all three animations and came over to the comic around episode 200. I read them all in about 3 days.

[Viper Daimao]

3 or 4 years ago, (i think the comic was in the teens or lower) I was reading a comic from a guy that I knew from the somerandomguy boards. He linked to 8bit one day,and ive been reading ever since.

[Don Don]

someone showed me the king steve theatre comic about baby skin shoes over msn.....so i asked for a link to the site since it seemed pretty funny

[Joseph Pandora]

Back when final fantasy robo chocobo voice came out they had a 8BT preloader. So clicked on the link and voila. Here I am years later. Or maybe like year and a half. i forget when robo voice came out. More then a year at any rate.

[shiney]

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.

[Meister]

Well, seeing as it's the official thread now, I'll retell the story once more with extra quality.

'Twas in the second month of the year 2003 when these lines' writer was hit by, simultaneously, a wave of boredom and the realization that he could now download roms. Since the latter sounded like a good way of coping with the first, he set out into the internet's vasty planes.

Alas, all he found was shitty, popup-ridden sites, and he was near giving up his search when he came upon the Cult of Kefka. Hands down the best site there ever was for that kind of thing and sadly taken down since... but that's a story for another time. For now it shall be enough to say that the site's webmaster was a man of many wits and an outlook on the world pleasing to yours truly. Thus, he (yours truly, not the webmaster) decided to browse through the Cult's link section, where he discovered a site called nuklearpower.com. This site was highly praised and our hero therefore threw a glance on it.

The rest, as they say, is history. I went through the archives throughout the following week and eventually even joined the forum (in May '03). On top, 8BT was my first ever webcomic... but by far not the only one. I think I discovered about 90% of the webcomics I read now through either the site itself or the forum.

[LeefRyder]

I started reading 8bit fairly early on and joined the forums around the same time as Shiney. My brother orginally linked me to it, and I was immediately transported back to my gradeschool nintendo days. Good times. :D

[Lost in Time]

I was reading an old issue of EGM were I noticed where they advertised www.nuklearpower.com. I immediately walked to my computer and typed the address in. He was already on Episode 230-something, But I was hooked from then on.

[RMS Oceanic]

I was hangin' around the MTG News Forums (http://forums.mtgnews.com) when a thread came up showing a reference to Magic: The Gathering at Bob and George (http://www.bobandgeorge.com). After reading its archive, I was hooked, and joined their forums.

Over the next few months, I read a few references to something called 8-bit Theater. Eventually, curiosity strung up my cat and threatened to hang it if I didn't go. I went through the B&G fanlinks, just in time to see the F-bomb. One more archive session later, I was hooked to this as well. Yay! :D

[Ganurath]

I was looking over somebody's shoulder when we were doing research in German class. He was reading an episode of Twinkin' Out.

[Magic E-Mail Chicken]

A wizard did it! OK, it was a friend of mine that told me.

[Toastburner B]

A friend showed me a bunch of the "Vs" movies. So, I decided to check out the comic, and have been hooked ever since.

For about a year now, I'd say, even though I just joined the forum recently.

[Paul]

I was still playing Everquest back then, and I was crawling along an Everquest board when I found a link to 8-bit theatre. I thought it was the most hilarious thing I'd ever seen, so I just kept coming back. Must have been about a year ago...

It's still one of the best sprite comics there is, so I keep looking. Yep.

[Death by Stabbing]

I dunno...Internet?

[Corneria Guard#4]

It was a bright sunny night. I was on the internet alone, bored, and depressed. Decided to look for something funny. I go to google, and typed in RPG Parody. Found this wierd webcomic. Wasn't sprite based or video game based. Was like hand drawn. Main character was named Hero or something and had a friend named cherry. Anyway, I saw a link to nuklear power and started reading. I've been reading since they used boatdoken. That be my fist issue.

:bm: Deploy the rocket boats!

[Myst]

I found it in the EGM issue....They had a clip from issue episode fifty.

[Hunter Lionheart]

A friend showed it me in return for me getting him hooked on Final Fantasy. We're both still hooked

[Robo-Ninja]

One of my friends had a comic printed out and I read it. I thought it was funny so I came over here to read the whole thing.

[MasterOfMagic]

It was a bright sunny night. I was on the internet alone, bored, and depressed. Decided to look for something funny. I go to google, and typed in RPG Parody. Found this wierd webcomic. Wasn't sprite based or video game based. Was like hand drawn. Main character was named Hero or something and had a friend named cherry. Anyway, I saw a link to nuklear power and started reading. I've been reading since they used boatdoken. That be my fist issue.

:bm: Deploy the rocket boats!
That comic would be http://www.rpgworldcomic.com. Another good webcomic.

[MagicMinotaur]

My friend told me about it. I looked at it for awhile then stopped when it became too much of a hassle to use my dad's comp every time I wanted to read it. Then started regularly reading again after I got my new comp, because I couldn't stand not understanding all the quotes my friend was throwing at me. Hilarious stuff most of the time. Great comic, I love it.

[DeathToFighter]

I remember i was on a forum about 2 years ago, and me and my friend were arguing on it (even tho we were in the same library). That kinda annoyed some of the ppl who were on it, and one went so far as to call us one person and posted a link to the episode where Garland says his name is Garry or w/e... after i read that, i decided to start from the begining, and that got me hooked

[Nique]

I've always known about 8-bit theatre. Even before it exsisted. In fact, I invented it and sold the idea to Brian for $5, a NES and an apple.

[DeathToFighter]

did ye, now? Then you should either be lynched, hugged, or given a refund....

[Jonsgirl]

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.

[Osterbaum]

So I was searching some flashes at NG and I found LegendaryFrogs Chocobo mix. I went through the preloader and read it was based on 8-bit theater. I searched 8-bit theater at newgrounds and found the flash movies. There was a link to the comic and I clicked on it. I started reading, thought it was pretty damn funny and I told some friends too (none of them post here). That was back in 2003. Then after reading the comic for a while I joined the forums.

[finalmage911]

I found this comic when i was reading a comic called Links Excursions (http://zeldacomic.keenspace.com/) and looked in the links and there it was.

[summoner_hultsima]

My friend told me about it.

[Christopher]

I have a friend who is into all these comics as well and she introduced me to this one. I've actually read several, but this one is SOOO funny, I laugh my @$$ off every episode!! Nice Job!

[Jaguar]

My brother and I originally just read the comics. We found it on a link of Gamefaqs.com. I then joined the forum.

[CrustyAstos]

I was watching a flash film created by Joeseph Blanchette (Legendary Frog) and there was a link to 8bit theater in the pre loader. Thats how I got here

[The Mirror Emperor]

I was watching 8-Bit Theater 3 by TLF when the url came up. I clicked on it and was on here every day a comic showed up since then.

[Thundergod Cid]

I found out about 8-Bit Theatre from a link off of another webcomic back around episode 350 and decided to check it out. 'Twas fun being able to read through 50 or so episodes from the archive in one sitting.

[Zorshnal]

I was writing some fanfiction on my computer when one of my friends from Fanfiction.net emailed me the link after I asked where a quote that they used came from. I went to the website, read all of the comic up to about episode 379 in a few days. A few months later I noticed that there was a forum so I joined it.

[pochercoaster]

My brother downloaded a game in which there was several 8-bit references. He did a search on 8-bit Theatre and then gave me the link. I remember reading 300 comics in just two nights. XD

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Found it in a link at the Oldskooled sprite comic

[Dark Prophet]

I first came to this site after I saw the flash version on Newgrounds.


I know that I had barely stumbled on 8-Bit Theater(bored in class, did an FF search...came up with that) when the FIRST Flash came out. I still wish they didn't quit doing those, it was good to see it in motionesque form(especially the magics!)

[Jarmin]

i was told about it in an msn convo.

[neorevolution]

I saw the FMV version on Flashplayer and looked at the site. It was only a week ago.
~neo

[Wetflame]

Brian offered to pay off my mortage, and that he'd "take care" of my family and protect them from rival webcomics.

He failed to deliver his promise.

But, he did give me an insanely large lump sum of cash instead, and a brand new shiney boathouse. So I'm not complaining :D

[Loyal]

Mm, browsing the GameFAQs forums, and since I was playing almost NOTHING but FF1 at the time, that's naturally the board topic I perused most often. Anyway, as I was looking through my favorite topic of all, the "Stupid Question, Stupid Answer" thread (Why couldn't all of the SQ,SA threads be that purely funny and noob free?!), one guy made a mention of 8BT. I hadn't a clue of what the farg he was talking about, so I asked. Now, being that FF1 was a Nintendo game, it didn't have as big a fanbase as, say, SSBM (the top Nintendo-based game at the time... I think...). I therefore did a search on Google, and well, here I am!

Oh, and to the guy who said that he read 300 episodes in 2 days, did everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) look pixelated to you? One guy on GameFAQs said that after reading a long series of 8BT strips, he saw everything in 8-bits for awhile... And I am very jealous of him...

[chickens_rock]

My friends... lol we've been reading it since just before the sword chucks ^^ and it was such a great webcomic (great design for a 8-bit) so now i check it every other day

[ryuuseinosolitude]

saw an flash 8-bit theater done by ledgendary frog and came here. I only came ehre cause I liked the movie and said one simple word: nostalga. Did I spell that right? I don't think I did...

[Samakar]

To tell you the truth, I had first seen 8-bit D&D and nearly wet my pants laughing, errr, DnD freak here, but anyways, it said it was based on 8-bit theater. So I went back to the homepage of flashplayer and found it, after the first episode I was nearly winded from laughing so hard, and I watched all three. After that I sort of ignored the site link for a while, shame on me, but anyways, today, after religiously watching it for the 200th time I finally came here and registered.

[oldedspike]

I was searching for a way to beat the ice cave in the playstation version. I never played the original, though my roomate in college talked about it nonstop. Anyway, I did a search for FF, found this site and laughed and laughed. :bbelt:

[Cicero]

Several years back, I was browsing through the links section of another web comic (I do not remember the name of this comic as it was not one that I normally read). Among these links was a link to 8-Bit Theatre. The link was a simple text link with nothing to distinguish it from the other links with which it kept company; however, I found the title to evoke a rather pleasing mental image (I've always had a certain fondess for the word "theatre"), so I clicked on the it. The premise of the comic struck me as rather interesting, so I read through the archive. Needless to say, I was quite impressed, and have kept up with the comic ever since.

[Ness]

My friends showed it to me a year or so ago, and I just loved it, and here I am.

The One and Only,
Ness

[chronotriggergod]

I first came hear a little over a year ago. I did a search for Chrono Trigger sprites or something of the sort. I ended up going to Mortisland.com and watched the CT movies. I thought they were hilarious, especially Chrono vs BM, and decided to watch the others. I then linked to nuklearpower and have been a big fan ever since. I just joined the forums though. It's all good in my hood.

[theraptor]

Mortisland got me here, also. Don't remember what got me to mortisland, tho

[32902]

I came here about 2 years ago... but i dont use the fourms much...

[adamark]

Somehow I found this place twice. Once through a link from Newgrounds.com and another time because I searched for info about an anime I was preparing to download. The forums seem home to intelligent people (a rareity on the net these days, it seems). So I just signed up. I like it so far. ^_^

[Lukku]

I saw the 8bit theatre movies on Newgrounds and thought that they were cool, but I left it at that, until a year later my boyfriend told me about this site and now here I am.

[redmage21482]

I stumbled onto it durring college with a friend of mine looking for something related to FF7 (best game ever)... and thusly stumbled on to 8-bit... and i began to read and laugh histerically and uncontrollably for about 2 hours reading the comics...

Thank you Brian Clevenger

[Red Mageia]

Oh.... My friends only talk about it 13/7.

hearing them ramble on about it all the time gave me motivation... too bad I killed them all in their sleep, they would be proud of me.


I reallly really like it though.

[Minor Dizaster]

My friend was looking for a FFI rom on google, but he just typed in FFI, and found the comic. He then recommended the comic to me, and I've recommended it to others as well.

[Verify]

I watched the flash ones on flashplayer.com, then saw a link to this site, then I looked at the archives. But that was like a week ago, so I'm pretty new.

[DrmChsr0]

That issue of EGM. It led me to greater webcomics.

[God]

I was told about this site a little under a year ago. And i have been laughing hard ever since. Only problem is there need to be more new comics. Downed internet is a very poor excuse to stop turning out things that make God(ME!!) laugh hard.

[Cloud Strife]

Some of my friends here introduced me to it back in february, and I've been living with a lasting sideache since then.

[tazz31406]

I saw the flash ones on Newgrounds and had heard of it before and wanted to read em but never got around to it, so I came then. And nothing has been the same since...

[LordZoma]

Dr. Swordopolis visited me in a dream, and said the only way I would be able to learn teh mysterious ways of Zodiakenshido would be if I were to travel across the expansive expanse of sea, time, and expanding space, to a small location in a realm known as 'cyberspace' whereupon I would meet the holy messiah of the style. There it would be my destiny to learn the arts from him, and reach my full potential, that I might return back across those very same expanses, and return to my original place with expanded consciousness and extended knowledge of the forbidden styles. So I came here... and I've been stuck. Anyone know how to make a sword-chuck? Help!?

[Spinman1400]

the videos on flash player

[Hiroshino]

A friend and I both had internet. He introduced me to newgrounds and the many flash movies on it. He also showed me the 8 Bit Theatre flash movies and another called 8 Bit D & D. Later that year I was the one who introduced him to the 8 Bit Theatre Comics. I'm not sure if he still reads them but I have read all of them up to the newest one. Being a regular at various forums I decided it was time that I registered here. That is how I was drawn to 8 Bit Theatre.

[JoeCB]

Grandmaster_Skweeb: that was one of the best sprite comics ever. sadly tis gone forever now. RIP.

so how did I find 8-bit? MUWHAHAH!! back in May of 2001 I found it through Panda Comics! (not an actual comic but a list). I Lurked the forums a couple months then joined cause of Rai.

[Godslayer]

My friend got me to read it, and I found a kindred spirit in BM.

[Derfel]

How did I come across 8-bit theatre? Well it all started on a crisp autumn evening last year, when a good friend of mine had pressured me to join him for a game of D&D. See I had never played D&D before so I thought I would give it a try, which is weird because form what I;ve heard its weird for an 18 year old to just get introduced to the game. Well anyway, my good friend was telling me about the rules and making a character and such, when his mom came down and said HEY GUYS COME LOOK OUTSIDE and we went outside and there was some crazy red light in the sky, I still don't know what it was, maybe a solar flare or something, it looked like the meteor thing in FF7 comming down. I played the game so long ago I don't even know what it was, but it was like that. But small...er, and Red, I believe the FF7 one was green?

Anyways we watched that shizzle fo ra bit then went back down to his wood panelled basement. From what I've heard one cannot TRULY experience D&D untill one plays in a wood panelled basement.

Anyways, We got playing and I was having a good time but then we got in a fight with this baby fire dragon, which I don't think is super tough, but we were all like lvl 1 or 2 at the time so it was a pretty big deal for us all. Actually it might have been a baby fire WHELP, not a dragon at all... I'm not sure.

Anyways, I rolled a 1 on my first attack, and my friend goes wooo that sucks you horribly miss and rusty sword. So I'm all like damn that sucks man what do I do now and he goes welll you have to see if you critically miss. So I roll again, and got a 1. So he goes haha your screwed your sword broke you might as well assume the fetal position and cry yourself to fiery death. At this point I got pissed and stormed out.

Anyways when I finally came back and had calmed down a little, I think I went for a little jog and kicked a fire hydrant to get out the anger, he said hey look at this itll cheer you up. And lo and behold on his computer screen was the first ever comic of 8-Bit theatre. And in the next three days I read all the way up to comic 375.

And THAT my friends, is how I, was introduced to 8-bit theatre

[LinkMaster Sab]

I think I saw a link to it at Gaming World, referring to the comic where BM repeatedly fails to get it on with WM. Which could be any of a number of episodes. OH! And it involves a hammer.

[Soliloquies Angel]

About a year ago I read a topic someone posted in another forum about it. I've been reading it ever since.

[Jagovolot]

The little thing at the bottom of a page in Electronic Gaming Monthly is what got me reading this. And this is what got me reading webcomics.

[chickenavenger]

i went on flashplayer.com and saw the movies. thats how i started readin it

[Misasura]

From another forum entirely. The forum is Monnlit Nights. It is at moonlitnights.org

[darkie]

Well...It was almost 2 years ago, and my friend told me about a super comic about FF. In that time I was trying to get all the roms from FF1 to FF6, and it interested me a LOT. So, I enter the web and fell from my chair laughing... ah...that incredible day and the frase "Well where would you suggest they put a suit of mystical armor of invincibility?" XD

[Misasura]

YOUDOKEN! Mad Monkey Sword Style! I don't remember the exact words.

[Dragonsbane]

A friend told me about it sometime last year, and I've been hooked ever since.

[PsyBlade]

me likes final fantasy
me saw quotes on gamefaqs
me seek out source of quotes
me find 8bit theatre
me now fan of sprite comics and trying to make a good one myself

[Flash Guy]

i've been reading since they crashed in elfland for the second time...
I found it when i was looking for some 8 bit sprites on gogle so there...

[Daecrist]

I started reading around the time that they were at Drizzl's spider cave. I first saw the characters during the load video for a final fantasy flash movie at Newground. Later I just googled it and have been a fan ever since.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

my friends and me all played games and watched movies on flash player and it turns out that there were 3 movies on flash payer and they go all the way up till white mage entering not to far but still fun to watch anywho there was a link and i wondered if there was more so i checked and whala
i started reading it about the time they got inot the forest and met ranger of course i had to reead all the comics first and it took me quite a while cant remember how long

[Misasura]

I got here from a link to the comic when they meet the half-elven dual class ranger/ranger and the dwarven berzerker. "THAT TWICE THE AMOUNT OF RANGER THE HUMAN BODY CAN HOLD!"
I read from the beggining after seeing that one.

[DragonDaimyo]

It's been so long I can barely remember. There were only about 20 comics methinks. WM had just been introduced. Anyway a friend told me about the site. I started reading from the beginning and didn't find it that funny. Then I got to the WM-BM episodes and I was hooked.
:bmage: :The power of pie commands you.
:wmage: :*Hammer smash*

[Chrono]

to be truthful the three 8-bit theater videos on www.flashplayer.com

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

i came in more specifically before that it was when he was talkin to fighter and fighter tried to convince redmage it wasnt just him goin insane

[Dark Black]

It's amazing how stupid you are when you think back at a later date. Like how I'm doing now, remembering how I found 8BT. I saw a link on someones sig on a gamefaqs board to the strip where fighter is in a shop talking about sword-chucks (or something shiny, anyways). I thought it was hilarious, but it never occured to me that there might be more. A week later it finally hit me that that strip probably wasn't just random crap and part of some ongoing collection. I looked on google for 8BT (spending ages looking, cause I ignored nuklear power as the address had nothing to do with the comic. As stated before, I'm am stupid. And a dumbass) and when I found 8BT I read all off them up to 100 in one sitting. At 100 (again for some stupid reason I refuse to go into) I assumed the series had stopped or something, because just happening along at the 100th episode would have been too much of a coincidence (which is *exactly* what it was). But I came back and was pleasantly surprised. Being stupid does have its perks - you get surprised a lot. And that's probably far more than any of you wanted to know about me.
Oh, and whoever said "and the rest is history" shouldn't. Everything you said before that was history also! I demand to know every last detail of everything thats happened to you since you discovered this strip up until now, for the sake of consistency!

[Silver Wolf]

I found 8-bit through Newgrounds. I saw their flashes, and fell in love with 8-bit! However, I never knew there was more than that, untill a friend of mine sent me to this site. When I saw how much there was, I was absorbed, drawin in as a moth to a flame, one might say. Especially Black Mage and Red Mage. I like them better than Thief I think, though it is very close, a bit to close to call, really.

So yeah, that is how I got into 8-bit theatre! It took me a month, but I finally read from episode 1 to 400 something that is the latest one!

[DunDunDun]

I saw a sig on somebodys account at another forum and thougth that it was pretty funny. So I asked him where that's from and then she gave me a link and I wound up here. :)

[red storm]

A classmate told me of the 8-bit theater movies on newgrounds, I wanted to see more and ended up here.

[Elliena Camile]

I saw the 8-bit theater pre-loader in Legenary Frog's Choco-Robo mix movie and visited the site then. I never really got into the comic though until months later when CheshireThief said he liked it and directed me to the site. After reading the first 15 comics I kept coming back.

[The Argent Lord]

Same with me. Except for the cheshire-theif part.

[Mirai Gen]

I decided to browse around online back at my desk job, landing here and reading all the comics. I re-read it a million times, and suddelny I was going to Penny Arcade too, and then I hit every online comic I could find.

Though I don't read the comic anymore, as my taste for it has kind of gone sour, I come to the forums regularly because it's one of the few that I can look at without sighing heavily and pressing page down to skip over the "omg wtf lol u r retardid!" posts.

[lonelight]

I came because someone on another board said it was cool.
Sorry if youre appauled by a newb posting.

[Esitasha]

8-bit theater is the best online comic that I have ever read, i've tried to ding others but nothing could beat this, A Modest Destiny comes close, but nothing can beat black mage and fighter, I got drawn into his series a year ago I guess, my brother showed me the flash versions on newgrounds.com and I've loved it ever since

[pendejochy]

I saw it in a gaming magazine. Bless you Magazine I Found at the Library.

[Elyseo]

i found it on google and have been an addict ever since

[Jeimuzu]

A guy I knew on an FF site known as Glorious FF showed me it once in 2002, I only got really into it in 2003 though when I was bored, god I wish I got into it sooner!

And its because of 8bit Theatre that i got into comic making...not too bad at either! THANK YOU, BRIAN!!!

[Medeo]

My reading 8BT is intrinsic to being. There is no possible universe in which A and B, where A is "I exist" and B is "I do not read 8BT" (the First Law of Webcomic-Dynamics). Therefore, finding this wonderful little webcomic at some point in my life was historically inevitable.



The above statement is my lame excuse for not remembering how the hell I found this thing in the first place. But damn, am I ever glad I did! :D

[Kaze]

I was drawn to this through another sprite comic which I found through Adventure Quest. Final Fantasy 8-bit sprite comic that could actually be GOOD? I had to see it. I am so not disapointed.

[Massacre]

Let's see... It was first introduced to me by a friend of mine, who also got me into Ashes of the Fourth Wall and Bob & George comics. Of course, there was more than that to it, wasn't there? Yes...

You can't just be lured in by a comic. You have to be SUCKED IN, like a black hole! The sheer amusement and entertainment must consume you until you realize - too late - that there is no escaping its clutches!!!!!

As you might guess, I like Black Mage alot.

[SireMiscreant]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]I actually found out about it from a friend when it was still at the 8bittheater site and began to follow it myself two years ago. I think the Episode No. was about 200, maybe before, maybe slightly after.

But then I went away for a year to Italy and had little time or internet availability so I missed a lot before I got back in July. Oh well, I'm hooked again by now.

And what's with the Italian 8-bit-theatre link? It's never werked fir mee.

[Travis]

Heard about it on the Bob and George forums.

[Kritz]

I'm fairly new... been here since "Logo Imitates Life". Only bothered to go on the forum about 30 minutes ago. I think why I joined was because one of my friends on AIM was yelling "Sword chucks" and I asked him wtf a sword chuck was, then he showed me this.

[Pixie]

I was first introduced to the comic over a year ago. My boyfriend (at the time) linked me to one of the ones he thought was funny. I kept the link, and one day down the road, ended up reading them all. Uhm, awhile back, I was bored.. So I started searching the website for more stuff other then the comic. I came across the forums and immediately went "HEY FORUMS!" so joined up. For a long while, I was (and still kind of am) what you call a spastic forumer/reader. I only posted/read once in awhile. I started posting a lot more recently, when I got to know a lot of the forumers and it became more interesting. I still need to catch up on some past comics, but I plan on doing that in the next couple days. ^.^

[Seeker]

I read about it on a link that was on the boards for Dragon's Gate (text-based game I used to play). I saw a few pics of the characters and some one-liners and had to chech it out. That was around #300 or so and I've been hooked ever since.

[Danny]

Lets see... I was cruising the Nintendo Power Forums and I stumbled open a very funny signature that a guy had recieved. It entailed a very funny conversation between Fighter and Black Mage. I clicked on it (and since it was linked I got transferred to the site). I read a couple comics and thought this was funny. I haven't read it in a while but I'm up to issue #249 and I'm gonna try and read them all (when I have a weekend or night to myself)...

[Nearly Insane]

Honestly, I don't read 8-bit, my brother does and i decided to take up the forum.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Found the link on the Oldskool sprite comic website link section. enjoyed it for a while and made my home in the forums.

[JunoXI]

a friend of mine introduced me to this site and i thought it was downright hilarious. when i read number 11, i loved it because of fighter's speech about BM being all-powerful

[Edwardo Magnifico]

I watched the flash thing, got hooked and came to the main site. It's AWESOME!

[LINK1157]

I was first lead onto the comics themselves AFTER I watched 8-bit theaters 1-4. I soon went to NP.com and found the comics, and WHAMO! Here I am now.
............what a story!

[Black Mage von Stabby]

I think I found my way here after doing a websearch on Google for sprites. Or it could have been from some other site, like www.willyjournal.com or something. I was looking fo comics at THAT time.

[Lauryious]

I recall the first time I found 8-bit Theatre was searching google: Final Fantasy comic.
Since then I've expanded my horizons to other webcomics, but I must agree that 8-bit is one of the better ones story-wise, enhanced by frequent updating. ^^

[ganon]

One of my friends told me I should read it, so I started reading and went from episode 1 to episode 400 in one sitting. I was instantley hooked :P

[Ivellios]

I found it through friends, and I noticed it on mortisland.com

[DarkHunter]

My buddy kevin who showed me in class how bm was to chicks. lol it remides me of how one girl is to me.

[Packman]

Looking up Faq's/walkthroughs once again for FF1 since I had a nice christmas break (15th Dec-18th Jan) I thought I'd beat Final Fantasy a coupla times. Since the break begain I've beat it once with Fi/Th/WM/BM. I found the link to nuklearpower.com and read the entire archives in three days 1-493. Then with the 8-Bit Party soley because of the strip, I also bought origins today and am working on it with Fi/rm/Bm/Bm nextup is a group with at least 3 BM's just for the fact that nuke 27 times in a row would be badass too bad nothing would be alive for 9 rounds of it but still I'd like to beat all the fiends and Chaos with nothing but Nukes hehe. (I needa gf to take up the small amount of freetime in my life that encomapsses videogames. If your interested and in college (or fairly close) around Southern Illinois (I'm close to St.L) or nearbye send me a message.)

[Noctem Eternae]

Well i FOUND 8-bit because of my friend Trey, how he found it i have no idea. The reason I was DRAWN to it however was because of the charectors. Each charector remind s me of someone i know or have rolepayed with at one time. Black MAge and Thief are my personal favorites, i even created a charector thats a combination of the two, named Thage. Essentialy the comic is one of the things that has held my gorup of friends togethor, as well as given us all fits of maniacle laughter.

[Melfice]

Well, I've found the comic thanks to a friend of mine, Ben. Via the comics I've found my way to the forums.

[Ominous]

I was watching LegendaryFrog's Final Fantasy Chocobo Mix for the 1,000,000th time and noticed the link in the preloader. I went to the site, read everything and became a huge fan. I've been here ever since about a month after the song came out.

[lifebecomeslessdefined]

i heard about it from a friend on the bus

[NinjaVanish]

I don't remeber how I first stubled upon the genius that is the 8-bit theater. I was most likly involved in one of my internet quests when I found this hole of goodness. After I began reading the magnificent text therein I was totally hooked. I have read throught the series many a time and still get a good laugh out of them. What kept me hooked was either Black Mages tendency to be extremly violent or the nerdness within. I once got in a discussion what kick ass items Jesus would give someone if life was a RPG. (I said a rod of resserection by the way.) But anywho this comic, pardon my 1337, r0xx0rz!!1!!1

[Great Cartoonist]

Here's my story:
A girl in my school was watching Meddros' flash animation Black Mage vs. White Mage on her free time. I saw it along with her, and I found out that it was based off something from www.nuklearpower.com. So I went there. I read the comics. I liked it.
And now, I'm using it for ideas to put in my comic. (with regards to Brian Clevinger, creator of 8-Bit Theatre)

[Warlock]

I don't remember how I stumbled across 8BT. Most likely, I was just bored, surfing the net for something to do. Probably clicked a link from some other site. Dunno. But I'm glad I'm here. Funny thing is, I'd never played any of the FF games until after I started reading 8BT

[[Atma]]

I heard about it on LiveJournal. I started reading it last weekend, I think im on about #200. I think you'd have needed to play FF1 to fully understand the comic, Luckily i have..=)

[Evilhasreturned]

the hot chick that is whm i mean all the stabbings and innocents being killed

[scummoo]

i found 8-bit thro my bro he saw the movies and after watching i was hooked i read all the comics up 489 in a week and i jus tcant wait till new ones im hooked for eva :theif:

[King_Pirate]

I saw a quote from someones sig on a game faq message board. It was a composition of...

Fighter : YAR! I am a bear.

... and I was all wtf? yet lolololol. Then this next line provoked curiosity to the extreme;

Black Mage : I tried being reasonable. You all saw. I now have no other recourse other then to shove him in the lava.

I search for it, wound up here and I've been hooked since, I read all 420 (I think it was) comics in one day.

[RedComet]

My two friends were talking about "Shineys" and Sword Chucks and I was like huh? Then they told me about 8 bit.

[Pyro3000]

i found a link one day and i came here. ever since i have threatened people's lives to read it and tell them some of the comics by memery. they have come, laughed, and seeked more.

i read them all and i miss not being able to read a ton a day but oh well at least there are new ones i can kep reading.

[brat-sampson]

I was reading planetgamecube when an editors comment had a hyperlink saying "I Like Swords".

I was intrigued and the rest is history. When I first started reading there were 'only' about 80 comics and the entry page was still promising to clear itself up later, I've been reading ever since and got NA for christmas.

[Mav007]

I think I was looking for a strategy guide for FF 3... or 2... or it could have been 1 'cuz I just wanted to make sure I found every last little thingie... and bamf! ...perfecto.

[dac1990]

Wow, I was reading 8Bt a long time before TLF did his stuff. I first stumbled upon the site back somewhere during the 270s; I seem to remember a spider web. Anyway, I left; deeming it unimportant, but came across it again by a "top 10 websites list" of some sort --- I can't remember where or when -- but it happened just before they first met Sarda. So, I spent the next two days reading it all through. After that, I was hooked.

[Zenigata_III]

Well...
A good friend was reading 8-bit theater in class, and i saw it and got addicted.
Thats about it.

[who.is.ralph]

i was referred to this site by a friend and was immediately attached. i just love 8-bit

[Vanir]

Room mate showed it to me and I've been laughing my head off eversince.

[Negate]

A fello RPG buddy showed it to me...I too have never laughed so hard at a comic since I read Dilbert!

[Carnivore]

I haven't been reading for as long as most of you. I think it was at episode 432. (http://nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=040622)

I got here by way of Legendary Frog's loading screen.

[Gorefiend]

From which Flash? Or do you mean TLF (does not mean The Legendary Frog....)

I got here through a complex process, involving Newgrounds. First I saw 8Bit D&D. I saw that it had been inspired by 8BT, and, having accessed it by means of the Final Fantasy Section, I saw the animations. After watching the first two (the only ones in the section) I noticed the "Other Submitions by TLF" dropdown menu, and watched the 3rd one. Needless to say, I laughed my ass off in all three. However, I noticed how in the third one the references to Nuklearpower.com were greater, so, I decided to come to Nuklearpower.com. The first comic I saw was Episode 367: Address Verification, Shmaddress Verification (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=040101). But, not getting the jokes, I read though the archives. I laughed my ass off the whole time. And I've been laughing ever since.

[Vivli]

I was drawn here when a friend told me he had found a webcomic starring me and my mate. Yes, I am aware of how typical it is to hear someone say they think they're like an 8 bit character, but I don't. Apparently my friend was reminded of us by Fighter and BM, me being BM. Not something I'm hugely proud of...

Although, the guy like Fighter has now taken up the habit of trying to convince us all sword-chucks are a good idea and constantly telling us how great swords are.

First issue I read was just before 'battling' Bikke, although I didn't really read it, I was just addicted to the archives for mutiple lessons of IT.

[LordDeos]

I saw the movies on Flashplayer.com and loved it! I made my way here, and fell in love. Oh BM, ur so evil. Sigh... :o :bmage: :bmage: :bmage:

[Carnivore]

From which Flash? Or do you mean TLF (does not mean The Legendary Frog....)


No, not TLF, Legendary Frog's Chocobo Robo Voice thing.

[Sandrock]

when I read comics I read then forget about them. about last year...ya XD lol...end of 2004 I found this again and read from 1 to 480 or what ever...wow x.x anyway I thin I found it from bobandgeorge once or twice...

[yoav]

My friend showed it to me while it was still in 110 something(when EPS showed that poster with the ungarland like picture),then being the lazy ass that i am i forgot to write down the site's name.But later the same friend showed me the animations 1-2 where there was a link somewhere to here.I read the whole comic in less then a day(I found it in the episode with Wm and BB stuck on the spider's web) then i read it again
an laughed like hell.

[Palidin]

One day I was browseing the net, and the only thing the ever poped up in 10 secounds
was 8-bit theater. and the was a few weaks ago.

[dementedmongoose]

Brian should post in here. Something to the effect of a "Dread 'Tooner Clevinger," and how he was held hostage for months as he was forced to become the NEW Dread 'Tooner Clevinger, and how 8Bit owns him, instead of vice-versa. That would cause lots of laughing. Or it did when I ran it by some of my friends who read 8Bit.

[blackmage15]

What drew me to 8-Bit theater is the newsground movie like alot of the people on the forum.

[Elmo]

My friend Flyntz suggested it to me many times whenever the topic of webcomics came up. Since he really doesn't like webcomics or video games, I knew 8-Bit Theater had to be really good.

[Seth36]

A friend mentioned the flash movies. I watched them. One of them gave me the option of coming here. I've been reading the comics for 3 weeks now (Episode 260).

[Re[e]bo]

I learned of this site through one of my fiends... *Ahem* Friends, anways I started with reading through the archives and found nothing but boundless wit, clever ingenuity, and all sorts af wonderful magical stuff. Been a fan ever since, either that or this site is laced with many powerful subliminal messages. ;)

[Lowbacca]

I also came across 8-Bit in the form of Newgrounds Flash Movies. I learned of the comics at the beginning of december, and caught up in time for #500. Some of it went slow though, working around College bowl game trips (I'm in the band) and dial-up at my house. But here in my dorm, ethernet connected @ 100mbs. Awesome.

[CARNEYMASTER]

I was told about 8-bit from a friend when comming back from a civil war reinactment, anyway he said i must see it i would like it, then he chucked a 6 ounce black powder charge at me and said you will see it. so i did and im still here. :)

[Gonzuki]

i love rpgs (FFs aren't an exeption) and i was told about an FF1 comic by a friend after that i visited the site and i loved the whole thing

[Mondracon]

I like swords. I like magic. One of my friends informed me this was just the comic for me. They were right.

I've been reading it ever since (about a year now?!)

Sometimes friends ARE useful!
And I thought they were just nuisances to shop for at X-mas! Psh!

[Delira]

I sacrificed most of my college-writing class, in my senior year of high school, to 8 Bit Theater. A friend of mine showed me it... and it snowballed from there.

(Of course, I hate preparing to write papers... so it all worked out)

[Slash]

I saw an 8-bit quote in someone's sig on the gamefaqs.com forums... Don't remember the quote now, though.

[icy arrow]

errr how i came to this site????

My friend told me about these awesome comics so i decided to check it out. And if my friend didn't tell me about this site then I wouldn't be typing this now.

[sasuto]

First off... how can you have 0 posts when you have a post I just read, like CARNEYMASTER
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Keystone heights, Florida
Posts: 0

I found the website when someone had it for there sig. Forgot that site and haven't been there since I came here. Darn you Nuklearpower. you took away all my other links to web forums, [SUBLIMITAL MESSAGING.] sp?

Edit have you ever had it so that almost every post you give turns out the start the next page. FOR MY LAST 15 POSTS THEY HAVE ALL STARTED THE NEXT PAGE OF THAT FORUM,

[Kikuichimonji]

Cousin told me. I read all 350+ episodes (at that time) in 3 days.

[Dark_Shinobi]

I think it was from a DND site. Not sure. But what hooked me on was the Black Mage - Fighter relationship, plus Black Mage. Kind of reminds me of myself sometimes...

[Patrat]

like most people i saw the movie, it took me i think a little to long figure out there were comics. hell, i didn't know anythin about ANY web comics! now look at me! i am nerd! thanks BRIAN! WE LOV YA!

[CharlieNash]

I started to find web comics and found the link here, I decided to start from the begining and "your gp or your hp" totally won me over. I've been coming back ever since

[Tomato]

Friend of mine ((known as "Sai" or "Tofu" by those who know him)) gave me the link when he found it. And I was hooked by "Correction, I'll think"

[Sir Bill the Smaller]

I hate to add this again, but for the sake of adding to the census I as well was introduced by the newgrounds flash comic, which I found after the 8-bit dnd flash. I was hooked with "welcome to corneria" because it reminded me of my very first rpg, dragon warrior, back when I wondered things like "why did they go through all the trouble of including this character is all he's going to say is the name of the castle." Although I will admit that that was the only was I knew the names of any towns, not that that was important information or anything back in those days.

[RedScar]

For the love of god, o and the movies. I heard theier were comis and i knew there were defenly movies. i didn't know web comics existed or could be so funny. Thanks to brain my life has been changed. Thanks to Brain my tue,thur,and sats are filled with joy. thanks to :bmage: HA-DO-KEN!!! Honestly who would want to listen to a idiot like that. :fighter: Yo! :bmage: Nevermind.

[Ominous Presence]

I discovered 8-bit Theater about six months ago and I've been hooked ever since. I was told about it by a friend who reads it regularly and after reading it all, have told everyone I thought would be interested. Easily one of the best web comics I've seen. :D

[Mage_of_Doom]

i got hooked by the movies of course. then i saw the comics. then finally Black Mage became my idol. now im in total evil bliss!

[Ticeorama]

i think i first saw a link to the movies at nuklear donkey on Final Fantasy Classics when i was replaying FF1 and was to lazy to get out my nintendo power guide. i showed them to my brother who for some reason but the nuklear power link in m favorites. 3 years later i started reading

:wmage: :wmage: :wmage: :wmage: is it possible?

[Garland]

I was drivin to 8-bit because of how it shows my evil genius mwahahahaha!!! I love me and my evil plots to stop the cursive Light Worriors. If you noticed those fool have never won a real battle unless you count that confused Black Belt. I never die also. I mean those rotton imps that broke my window, messed up my plans, and tried to kill me and I'm still alive. Oh yeah! By the way Brian C if you need a voice of Garland ask me. You know since I did post at [Adult Swim] About 8-bit becoming a show, although it kinda didn't work :( .... Lots of people agreed it should of been on Adult Swim. I was the one that started it. You know: Redmage2112 ? The guy with the picture of Miroku? And the signature: "I want to bare your childeren". Me and TLF are flash buddies. We talk about ideas and stuff. Infact I'm making one FFWarcraft and the 8-bit stars promised voices. So please I mean.....I am Garland so take that into consideration!

[The SSB Intern]

I saw the flash version on flashplayer.com for about a month and then noticed an arrogant link. My cursor tried to stab in its black heart but it sucked me in here.

[Azisien]

I was guided to 8-bit by my final fantasy loving friends during our, uh, "Final Fantasy Prime" phase. I believe my friends found it by pure chance while surfing the web looking for Final Fantasy stuff.

[Rouge Mage]

I saw I a video of it on flashplayer.com decided to see the real comic and... WHAM!!! I found the best site ever

[Kairamek]

One of my college roomies suddenly burst into a fit of hysterical laughter. He then read us "Blackbelt's Got a Problem" (somewhere in the early 90's). I found it so amusing I had to check out the rest.

[Pilotslover]

It's Vivi's fault

No really, someone said something about Vivi looking like BM and that started it all (It's not smart to underestimate how much I love that little guy) (Love in a non-pervy way, I do realise he is only nine)

pL

[Intern Nin]

I followed SSB to the dark land he was transported to.

[Expmaster]

I was "redaing my cousin's story" by going on random sites, i mean on his story, when I poened his favorites and saw some comics, I mean some Stories, and I came here, I mean I read his story. :D

[Kike14]

On another forum, a guy posted some of the strips ( specially the part when Black Mage meets White Mage ) and they were really funny so I started reading the comic here and 8-bit theatre made webcomics a part of my life.

[Dementis]

A friend of mine informed me of 8-Bit about 3 years ago, back when the site was very skeletal looking. I've been hooked ever since. Now as for how he found out about, no clue.

[Fortis]

I was on Newgrounds, waiting for a Final Fantasy Chocobo Mix flash to load up, when lo and behold, there's a pre-loader! A month after seeing it (and forgetting I'd watched it already), I paid closer attention and saw some reference to this "8-bit theater" thing. A hop, skip, and a google later, and I was spending a week or so catching up a couple hundred episodes.

[kieas]

The gamefaqs FFI message board. Ya know, before the owner sold out and it turned into corporate nazi central. I think you get banned now for awknoleging the existance of anything other than gamefaqs without paying them money.

[Crowen_TheMage]

Well as I remember I was looking for final fantasy 7, 8-bit sprites. You see I enjoy animating gifs. I typed in a search and here I was. Over a period of about 3 months I had caught up to the latest episode.

[Cat]

Hmm. I'd have to say, I was reading some of my other comics, then I decided, hey, let's check out some of these links. Lo and behold, there was 8-Bit Theater. And I was hooked. Instantly hooked. O_o I love you 8-Bit Theater... It's got to be my favorite sprite comic ever... I haven't found one I like better. The characters are interesting, and they make me laugh... ^_^ Who doesn't like that? Ahh... I'm so happy to find something I can enjoy.

[blackmage666]

I had first heard about 8-Bit froma link on Mark Shallow's site, Adventurers. 8BT was still in its infancy, and honestly wasn't that good. A few years later, due to the funny 8B5-evil on the attack flash, I came back, to find the adventures freakin hilarious.

[Nucleus]

An old friend of mine who most commonly goes by the nom de plume, Xzean, introduced me to 8-bit Theatre in the Spring of 2001, if I recall correctly. For a while, I read once or twice per month, but in late 2002 I started reading more frequently, and these days I read each episode within the hour of its posting.

[Skyshot]

My brother: Hey, have you seen Eight-Bit Theatre/Theater?
Me: Nope.

Minutes later: [Neither acronyms nor emoticons nor a combined force of these can describe our mutual laughter]

[Maneko]

I was chatting in IRC, when a friend of mine linked me to the first "HADOKEN" comic shown in 8-Bit Teather. That one (and the explosion in the next one) hooked me forever. :bmage:

[bad777]

I got to here from a link off of VGcats and it took the entire day to read through all the comics all the way up to 432.

[ArcAngelX]

My friend suckered me into this and VGcats, but I got him hooked on Homestarrunner, so we're even........for now........

[MAX]

Long time ago, in the summer of aught-three, on an old Homestar Runner forum that has ceased to exist by now, someone posted a link to 8-Bit Theatre 3 on Newgrounds. I saw it, thought it was funny, and then I followed the link to the comics. That's it.

[8bit_BM]

:bmage:: Like Max, I found myself drawn to 8-bit after watching its flash on Newgrounds and followed it here. Now if only they'd make a 8-bit Theater 5...

[Demo]

:bmage:: Like Max, I found myself drawn to 8-bit after watching its flash on Newgrounds and followed it here.

same here

[Kahkau]

I got to 8-bit after Electronic Gaming Monthly ran a little blurb telling me to check it out. That had to be around Episode 150 or so.

Wow.

[Betrademos]

Game-revolution.com = BEST GAMING SITE EVA!!11 They had a few webcomics in their features section, and wouldn't ya know it....

[Xyber]

Twc 2003

[Noel McMetroid]

I forget what led me here, probably after travelling through fifteen different links on other hand-drawn webcomic sites. What kept me here was the sheer halarity of it. I stopped reading BnG over a month ago, but I still read this one!

also....

My brother downloaded a game in which there was several 8-bit references. He did a search on 8-bit Theatre and then gave me the link. I remember reading 300 comics in just two nights. XD

It probably took more than 2 nights, you just don't remember all the times you nodded off waiting for a page to load. ;)

[mauve]

I discovered 8-Bit at Newgrounds. I watched the movies, loved 'em, and did a google search for more. That's when I discovered the joy that was nuklearpower.com. I actually didn't know it was a webcomic until that point. I read the entire series in a few weeks.

[Paper Ninja]

My DM pointed me towords this. My Monk has the same personality as fighter, and this was before I heard of the wonderous 8-bit

[peebs]

I was drawn to this when my brother kept obsessing about. Now he has left it and I have become obsessed with all webcomics.

[vt_otis]

someone had a link to the site on their AOL IM profile, and I clicked the link.

Thanks again to all involved. Truly genius.

[FinalFrog]

I was on the Gamefaqs message board for Metriod Prime and found a link to metriod2002.com. They had a metriod comic and on their links page was a link the planet zebeth. After going there for a while I checked out their links page and found 8-Bit Theater. So yah, I took the long way around.

[netrider6]

read vgcats(don't remeber how I found that...)and there was a comic he did for 8-bit. The rest is history lol :bmage:

[Ace_of_Spades]

What drew me to 8-bt had to be the sensless violence and disregard for when to use a weapon of mass destruction. All hail Blackmage. :bmage:

[TheI3rokenspiral]

:bmage: I found 8-bit theater about two years ago. I never really joined the forum until about 20 minutes ago. But I stumbled upon it through searching for FF character desktops and backgrounds and such. When I found it I fell in love and have only recently caught up on the storyline. I read 380 comics in two days so I would be up to speed. :bmage:

[Ace_of_Spades]

5{\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0rokenspiral]:bmage: I found 8-bit theater about two years ago. I never really joined the forum until about 20 minutes ago. But I stumbled upon it through searching for FF character desktops and backgrounds and such. When I found it I fell in love and have only recently caught up on the storyline. I read 380 comics in two days so I would be up to speed. :bmage:[/QUOTE]

*applaudes*

[Subpar]

Started reading about a year ago, and love it. Its about the only webcomic that I read religiously.

[OhGodtheRats]

Wow. My story is almost the same as a bunch of people's. I found this thing years ago and I've kept up with it all this time. While wishing that the Red Mage's section of the site would update, I noticed there was a forum.
Weird that I never noticed that before.
-jared

[bang91]

I found it be watching the 8-bit theater flash movies. This place is COOL!

[Seeking Soul]

well i guesse i found 8-Bit on a link from google while i was searching for some FF1 Pictures, before that i had seen some movies on newgrounds.com

[Cheerful Coffin]

I found it as an advertisment of another webcomic i read called RPGWorld and was disccused often at thier forum here.
http://www.thekidsarentalright.org/forum/

[mk5dude]

newgrounds

[netrider6]

I just remembered the chain of events bringing me here!

Someone posted a vgcats(the one with Link in an Asylum) on Gamefaqs.com(a Zelda board specifically) and I got interested, read them all, followed the Black Mage Reprieve one here :)

[Uselessinformation]

I got told about it by my Girlfriend about a month ago, and basically found it to be one of the most hilarious things i've ever read.

Mostly i was impressed by the FF1 references, which i remember playing when i was just a wee lad.

[jfreedan]

I must of first came across 8 bit theatre back in 2002 or so, and I -think- the story was up to the "Invincible Armor" part of the story then.

I thought it was hilarious because I am kind of a console rpg gamer buff so many of the gags I get right away. A lot of the scenes made me laugh so hard I couldnt keep reading. Theres just so much insanity wrapped up into this story it doesnt fit on the pages.

I'm a little sad to see the original t shirt designs arent around anymore. I would of liked to have one of those "Black Mage Hadouken" shirts but couldnt afford it at the time.

[bard master]

vg cats, i saw requiem for a black mage. When i finished the archive, i decided to find something with a more solid archive. I got there about the time they got trapped in the ice cave and their hanging upsidedown. I fell in love with the storyline, even though it took a week for me to read it all ( i can take it down in 2 hours nowadays)

[retarded_baby_squirrel]

well it all started 3 years ago. i was a stupid kid and was obssesed with
a comic named final fantasy excursions, a horribly animated sprite comic similar to 8bt in a twisted kind of way that and hasnt been updated in 1 year. anyways ,i was obssesed as i am now with black mage (:bmage: "they all adore me.") and was trying to find the perfect picture of him on the internet. i came upon a picture of a comic strip shaped picture on Ask Jeeves. I clicked on it. boda boom, boda bing, 3 years later im livin it up on the necter of sweet, sweet bittiness.

[Thikyngdum]

Actually I found it a while back when I was replaying the old FF games through. I check on the web to make sure I didn't miss anything and one link led to another and I found myself here. I spent about 6 hours reading through the archive and found myself, like so many others, hooked. Now that I'm addicted I'm just waiting for Brian to start charging...

[MyticZero]

I saw the flash on Newgrounds and i got hooked i love it so much!!!!!!!!!! why can' they make more flash of it i whould buy a copy of the dvd and watch it for ever (if it had 15 or more eb in it and some special stuff in it as well)

[Dr.GoldenClaw]

I'm friends with Mortis.

Mortisland.com

And eventually, I found the ties to this site. And voila! Here I am.

[scottyboy123]

I first heard about 8-Bit Theatre from a friend of mine a couple of years ago, who told me a little bit about the characters and described a couple of scenes (one of which was WM asking BM for a "non-destructive" use of his magic) but then I thought nothing more of it.
A couple of months ago, however, I was looking at the "References" page of the Homestar Runner Wiki and I found that 8-Bit Theatre used a reference to H*R in it at one point, a picture of Trogdor. So I came to this site and... bingo! I was hooked.

[ThanosOfTitan321]

I walked in and my brother's friend was showing it to him one day, so I read over their shoulders and I LOVED it. My brother stopped reading it a while ago but I am still addicted... and have the fighter and black mage shirts...

[Prince of Goon]

A friend directed me to Nuklear Power at the same time as he directed me to Newgrounds ('Twas a day for new things...) roughly Nov-Dec 2001. I think it was around the time just before our mighty Light Warriors entered the Temple of Fiends (Hard to remember, 'twas years ago).

I read the lot up to that point, loved it, but soon forgot about it I couldn't be assed waiting for more comics to come out. Roughly the middle of last year I returned and read up on all I had missed. But I was already a member of several forums at the time and didn't really want to sign up to another. However, now no longer a visitor to said forums, I decided to sign up here.

And that's the story of how I lost my deodorant in the small train carriage during my all day trip in the blistering hot summer of '69...

[J m HofMarN]

My friend Chris directed me to eight bit long, long ago. I don't actually remember it being that big of a phenomenon at the time. Chris later went on to become our DM. Before long just about everyone in our rpg group was choosing which character best represented them (I was thief, given my propensity with said skill)

[MetalPsycho]

An internet friend, who I'm not sure if he goes here himself or not, told me that this was a good comic. I've always liked comics, ever since I first saw VG cats. Oddly enough, the same friend pointed me there as well.

[xfire]

8-Bit Theatre the movie

[Chipmonkey]

uuuummmmmmmmm,i really dont know

[Chipmonkey]

can i please get out of probation,im sooorry i made fun of 8 bit

[Malkadocian]

Lets see. I was making a search years ago for some unimportant Final Fantasy subject, and stumbled upon 8-Bit Theatre by accident. I have refused to stray since than. That was over 400 episodes ago. Still enjoy every session. Oh, and Dawn of War is indeed a great game.

[Zeig]

Well........ it all happened so long ago, when i was a youngin i do beleive, anyways i thought "hmmmm regular funny isn't making me go teehee anymore" then i found 8-bit theatre and i was all like "hmmm i like ff alot" and so i read this enjoyable comic laughed i did i can tell u that............................... thats about it ... gratz on this i say, its incredibly ingenious.

[Ulimate Fighter]

Well I just joined, but I found 8 bit theatre on Flashplayer, so I watched it, had a few laughs, and forgot about it. 2 weeks ago I looked for it again, and realised this was it's actul site, and it took me them 2 weeks to read all episodes, including Twinkin' Out's and Ask Eps. :fighter: I like swords :fighter: :p

[Meister]

can i please get out of probation,im sooorry i made fun of 8 bit
Not if you keep spamming and double posting. In fact, that's much more likely to increase your time than shorten it.

[DarkLadyNyara]

My best friend showed me this site, and I was instantly hooked. BLACK MAGE RULES!!!

[Darkflame]

About a year ago I saw the 8-bit theater animations on Newgrounds. I thought they were funny but didnt think much about the strange site listed.

*10 months later...*

I decided to watch them again when the fourth instalment I believe was released. I decided that this time around I would check out the source comic and the rest is history.

[GARUD]

i was on the FF1 and 2 boards on gamefaq's about christmas time last year. Someone had a hilarious signature and a URL to this site. i followed it and now im hooked.

dont underestimate the power of the SIG! (or off corn beef. it tastes good at first but the number 2's after will kill you). NUFF SAID :wmage:

oh, and the episode at the time was "new blood"

[blk_mage_cat]

what drew me to looking at this?well, i was on newgrounds, watching the little episodes that someone made ( it was cool.). i found the site name, and i folowed it to this.i instantly fell in love with the series, andthen became a 8-bit fan.
thats all.

[Red Fighter 1073]

sheer luck, believe it or not.. i was talking to my friend on AIM and he said he had this amazing secret which was the name of a website(nuklear power..DUH!) and he wouldnt tell me. but then, he eventually did tell me about this site and i read some comics and got HOOKED.......on phonics! (nuklear power...phonics...same difference..)

[konnor]

my friends were talking about these characters black mage and fighter saying quotes and everything

wondering wtf? i asked whats it all about and then found this

i very quickly became addicted!

[NinjaRob]

A friend told me about the flash cartoons, so I looked up "8 Bit Theatre" on Google and it led me to nuklearpower.com. I've been a fan ever since.

[Fenris]

My brother found it. I saw a few episodes and just recently came back to read it. (I believe it was the sticking pointy things into fleshy things that drew me back.)