Death Generator

About

Death Generator, previously known as Sierra Death Generator, is a meme generator which allows users to insert custom text into dialogue screens from various video games, including Super Mario 64, Metal Gear Solid, Pokémon, Stardew Valley and other popular franchises.

History

On October 26th, 2017, American programmer Foone Turing uploaded Sierra Death Screen Generator to GitHub. ^[1][2][3] The initial build of the generator allowed creating custom death screens based on the 1988 video game Police Quest II, with the developer promising to add support for more Sierra Games in the future.^[4]

In the following years, support for numerous Sierra games, video games developed by other companies and such features as custom-text BSOD were added, with the project moving to its own website.^[1] As of April 12th, 2019, Death Generator supported over 120 custom death screen options, including options for multiple retro games, as well as more recent titles inspired by their aesthetic, such as Stardew Valley and Undertale.

Features

Death Generator allows users to insert custom text into dialogue screens from video games and other software. For certain titles available on the site, additional options are available, such as choice of Pokémon and opponent for Pokémon, or choice of fighter for Mortal Kombat II.

Highlights

On February 23rd, Death Generator was featured in an article by The Verge, with Foone Turing revealing his plans to continue expanding the list of titles available in the generator in the future.^[5]

I have a todo list of games that’s longer than the list of games in the generator. Tons of fighting games have ending screens, like the King of Fighters series, or Street Fighter 2.” Chrono Chross is next on the list, as well as documentation for others to contribute their own generators, to speed up the process.

Related Memes

Codec Screen

On March 8th, 2018, Codec Screen from 1998 video game Metal Gear Solid was added to Death Generator.^[6] In the following year, multiple notable parodies based on the Codec Screen were posted on various platforms, including Reddit, Twitter and Instagram.

Traffic

According to Alexa^[7], as of April 12th, 2019, Death Generator was ranked 336,037th most popular website, with the rating improving by over 600,000 positions over the previous two months. In the US, the website was ranked 364,845th most popular.

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