What drew you to 8-Bit Theatre?

I found a link from the Dragon Mango 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.