Let's start a new meme: #backgames from finish to start

vicviper42

#1 – 4:41 PM February 23, 2009

I for one support this meme.

Gus

#2 – 7:03 PM February 23, 2009

Four rows of multi-colored blocks spontaneously appear, break into pieces and float, spinning into space.

Anonymous Anonymous

#3 – 1:27 AM February 24, 2009

The Lich King calms down.
Having populated the world with monsters and swag millions of people abandon a vast fictional environment leaving it uninhabited. Blizzard pays them to go.

Anonymous Anonymous

#4 – 5:47 AM February 24, 2009

Chrono trigger: Some wacky kids build a giant monster in the future that sits there for all eternity then wander the countryside and through time, slowly losing touch with eachother one at a until they are not friends anymore. Then chrono goes to sleep at his moms.

RC pro am: You drive your RC car backwards over tracks while slowly downgrading your power ups and cars until you are stuck with a piece of junk.

Sim city: You take a bustling metropolis and run that bitch into the ground.

Dr Mario: You take medicine away from a sick jar until that jar is sick as fuck.

GTAIV: A hardened criminal slowly rehabilitates to a simple immigrant through a series of philanthropy missions and vigilante saving of lives that also secretly rebuilds a crime empire. You get on a boat.

Tony Hawks Pro Skater: You lose all of your money and skills through a series of bone crushing falls, failures, and the inevitable locking behind you of all the cool places to skate.

Kayube

#5 – 6:36 AM February 24, 2009

Pokemon: Abandoning your position as the world's greatest Pokemon trainer, you travel around the land as a great healer of Pokemon, reviving the KO'd creatures of every trainer. Meanwhile, you hand badges over to 8 gym leaders, while you weaken your own Pokemon and eventually release them into the wild. Along the way, you give new hope to a struggling gang of criminals. Finally, once you've given your last Pokemon to the professor, you move back in with your mom.

Anonymous Anonymous

#6 – 7:24 AM February 24, 2009

Rez: As a polygon superfetus, you assemble a vast world of also geometric shapes while pulsating to pleasant techno music, constantly evolving and devolving through many different forms.
Dead rising: You break into a mall on a rampage of helping the zombie infestation all whilst stealing items and taking photographic evidence. A helicopter pics you up.
Dead space: You are on a space ship exploring while re-assembling godawful mutant creatures limb by limb with futuristic engineering tools, all while marvelling at the complete lack of rational design and lighting available on said ship.
Guitar hero: You start as a wicked guitar god, rich and famous, and then crippling arthritis takes you down some notches till you can barely play the chords to a halfassed power riff from a band you didnt even like to begin with.

iCubPro

#7 – 10:55 AM February 24, 2009

Dante's Inferno: After ditching your girlfriend deep in the 9th circle of Hell, you fight your way out through hordes of hideous creatures as the friendly Lucifer releases all the dead, evil people back out into the world above.
Any Sonic game: Having helped doctor Robotnik fix his latest killing machine you race through ever simplifying environments trapping all the cute innocent creatures in robotic shells until you reach a land that's a loose variant of Green Hill Zone.
LittleBigPlanet: As a sackboy that has everything, you decide to throw everything out on a round-the-world splurge dropping everything as you go. Occasionally stopping to destroy and deconstruct an otherwise perfectly good scene...
Buzz: Jeopardy ?

Anonymous Anonymous

#8 – 11:11 AM February 24, 2009

I twittered these, but here they are:

#backgames Call of Cthulhu: A man is revived, summons an Elder God, and goes on a quest to regain his sanity and return home to Innsmouth.

#backgames Psychonauts: A boy quits a psychic spy agency to run around inside people’s heads, making them crazy and absorbing psychic power.

#backgames Mark Ecko's Getting Up: A hoodlum is sent around town to clean up graffiti and make amends with local gangs and law enforcement.

#backgames Resident Evil 4: A man flees a giant spider to join a religious cult that turns octopi into humans and rescues teenage girls

Gus

#9 – 11:47 AM February 24, 2009

Portal: A woman in a jumpsuit fixes a super-computer then goes into seclusion.

elisd

#10 – 1:54 PM February 24, 2009

Half-Life: Gordon Freeman brings an alien god to life and flees his dimension, going to a secret government base where he runs around bringing back to life various aliens and commandos. He recharges health and energy stations from his own supply and gives back a number of weapons. Finally, he closes a rift into another dimension by pulling some unidentified material out of a beam and then goes to a locker room and takes off his HEV suit.

Final Fantasy III/V: A group of heroes gather and bring to life a madman, Kefka, who proceeds to dismantle his giant tower in the middle of a post-apocalyptic world. They scatter themselves all over this world, rejoining suddenly when Kefka undoes a massive cataclysm using the power of three gods of magic. He brings the emperor to life and the heroes fly around in an airship and help an emperor rebuild his empire and then leave various towns he occupies. They put their magic powers into pieces of magicite, which then come to life and become Espers. They disperse all over the world while Terra slowly loses her memory and finally becomes a mindless slave of the empire after she hides an Esper in the mountains. She forgets what love is.

Ghede

#11 – 2:36 PM February 24, 2009

If you follow the reddit thread, someone posted a pic that shows it started in 4chan around a day before it hit reddit.

Hanglyman

#12 – 7:46 PM February 24, 2009

Diablo: An adventurer arrives from the East, then yanks a crystal out of his forehead and jams it into the head of a nearby corpse, transforming it into a terrifying demon. He then proceeds to work his way upwards through a labyrinth, populating it with a demonic army and arming them with weapons bought from the town blacksmith. He trades powerful magic rings and weapons to the townsfolk for things like mushrooms and tavern signs, hides them, pollutes the water supply, then, much poorer and weaker than when he started, leaves town.

Metroid: A futuristic bounty hunter clad only in a bikini dons her power suit, builds a malevolent brain-computer and an army of energy-draining creatures, and flees from them, losing pieces of her suit along the way and closing passages behind her, until she finally makes it back to her ship and safely blasts off into space.

Daemon

#13 – 1:57 PM February 25, 2009

Civilization: A global empire collapses into handfull of primitive stone-age tribes, as technology is steadily forgotten, cities lost and the environment restored to a pristine condition.

Anonymous Anonymous

#14 – 10:04 PM February 25, 2009

A man emerges from hell. He seals his memories away in a sphere, then removes his monstrous soul from his body, whence it skitters into the shadows. Four strangers rise from the dead, and the man takes them into the deserts of belief...