Kotaku
When it came time to pop the question, reader Brian Klima did it right. No scoreboard message at a baseball game, no skywriting, no jewelry buried in the dessert. He proposed marriage to his one true love with all the charm and romance that is Super Smash Bros. Brawl Grab your hankies and hit the jump.
In Brian's words:
"I came home from work with the ring on Wednesday, and while she was attending her grad school classes, I got to work on a custom level that would successfully convey my intentions."I first tried spelling out 'Will You Marry Me?' but the limitations on the level's file size wouldn't allow it, so I then settled for the abridged version, "MARRY ME?" I set the match time limit to infinity, and then simply set up Mario, Peach, and Kirby (her favorite) around the level so that the camera was zoomed out as much as possible and the entire message fit on the screen. I then turned the TV off and just waited for her to come home.
"When she went to watch TV, the first image that appeared when the set powered on was my level. At first she asked, "Oh, are you in the middle of a game?" But after she noticed the small box in my hand, and I insisted that she give the TV another look, she figured out what was going on."
"Oh, and she said, 'Yes!'"
Pardon me, there's ... some dust in my eye or something ... That really is beautiful Brian. (Just one thing, you forgot to tell us your lucky bride's name.)
And, genuinely, best wishes from Kotaku for your new life together.
Update: Brian writes to say his fiancee's name is Allison, and your kind words and reactions mean a lot to them.
Comments
I went Awww, then wandered how good it was for killing :D
What a cool story. T_T
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
:)
awwwwwwwwwwww~! cute! and clevar.
It really wouldn't be a very functional map to play on. There's too many places to fall through, no solid platform level, and imbalanced spawn spots.
Though I guess it's a decent way to propose.
Does Kirby represent the probably offspring?
You know, all these nerdy proposals always seem to result in a yes.
:D
Only a gamer would be that creative ;)
I wish I would have though of that before I got married. Oh well, I guess just looking at someone and telling them that they're marrying you works just as well.
*probable
Awwww how sweet. And to think i just used the map editor to fill the map with spikes.
@Polywhirl:
1v1
NO ITEMS
FOX ONLY
MARRY ME? CUSTOM MAP
Man... he took my idea. But instead of marry me, it was gonna be, "I'm breaking up with you." "Marry me" sounds nicer though...
"Baby, I want to be 'in the middle of a game' with you for the rest of my life."
I need someone in my life. ;_;
That's a cute story. I have to admit, I was wondering at first after looking at the screenshot, who was proposing to who. With three people on screen it seemed to me that one of them was on course for some bad news there.
Congratulations, Brian! Both on her acceptance of your proposal as well as the absolutely geektastic idea of doing it in the first place. :)
That's an awesome proposal! Congratulations, Brian and Brian's fiancee. :)
@Polywhirl: Don't ruin the mood.
very nice glad to see a new relationship has surfaced from under the sea of love :D congrats
@scotty:
:(
/soothe
Yowza, that's awesome. Way to go. :D
Ha, that story made me smile :)
I'm waiting for Mario Kart to come out. Hopefully there will be some way to propose via that game, since it's my girlfriend's favorite.
:D
Marriage must wait for the right video game to come! I mean, time to come!
...He would've been able to make the letters look smoother if he had used some of the diagonal and horizontal fall-through platforms.
>.>
But hey, it worked, who am I to judge. Way to go!
Awwwwww :D
I like how the girl didn't even see it at first. I didnt either honestly.
That's a lame method. It must have taken him what... 10 minutes to do it? She should have said no just for the sheer laziness.
Very nice, and congrats!
Adorable. And congrats on the engagement!
1v1.
No Items.
Fox Only.
Marry me?
Congrats man, very clever. Lets see if someone will do it with LittleBigPlanet.
lol nice :)
but for the rest of his life he would need to let his wife to beat him in smash bros...
not4me... ;)
@Naelok: The honeymoon is probably gonna be a 99x stock game on Delfino Island.
Awwwwww. That's cute.
Congratulations to them, but I still hate nerd proposals and weddings.
Little Big Planet will be perfect for Marriage proposals!@MUDDUM:
loser
@Apollo:
Already did the joke ;(
Stuff like this makes me smile. :)
Pffff, that level is completely unplayable!
Congrats just the same though... Too bad it couldn't have had form AND function! :p
Now that's a clever proposal. Congrats to them.
So cute! I love the choice of Mario/Peach too ^-^
My fiance proposed last month using Pokemon Battle Revolution - he challenged me to a battle and had changed the names of all his Pokemon to say 'Will you please Marry Me?' :)
(I said yes, of course)
ugh.
That's cute :) I wish the happy couple all the best.
I proposed to my wife using Animal Crossing. I wrote her character a letter asking if she would marry me. Unfortunately, even though I made sure to empty it, her mailbox was full again when she played. Thinking it was all junk mail, she just decided to play the game. After an hour of pulling weeds (she hadn't played for a while), she decided to stop playing. She left the room for a second and I took her character back to her mailbox, deleted all of her other letters and when she came back in the room I told her to check her mailbox. She saw there was a letter from me, but didn't think anything of it (she thought I had written it several months before). When she read it she was shocked, but she said yes! And no, other than that, we did not have any nerdy themes to our wedding.
Wow. Another dork. I'm just amazed these failures have found a girlfriend in the first place.
awwwwwwwww! If they ever have kids: He's Mario and she's Peach, and newborn babies do kinda look like Kirby.
Genius idea for a proposal, guy.
@Kavatar: Same here. If I did something like that I wouldn't even blame my girl for saying no. For the rest of her life (And mine) she has to tell her friends and family that she was got the big question through a video game?
Like her family doesn't see me as ENOUGH of a nerd I had to incorperate my geekiness into something that is supposed to be 1 of the top 3 happiest moments in her life?
With 1. Being the birth of her child, 2. Being the proposal itself, and 3. Being the divorce where she gets all my phat loots. Kidding, of course I mean the beautiful white wedding.
@Kavatar:
I can see why someone spending Sat. afternoon posting online with a King of Fighters avatar would have a problem with this. Same for someone named "gamer4250". That name's dorky AND creative!!!
@kidnicky: Wow thanks. That wasn't uncalled for at all. All he did was give his opinion, and even though he didn't agree with the method used he still offered a congrats, and you have to shit on him? Nice, cause you so come off as the mature one.
This made me go Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww and :3
That would suck if brawl was for the 360 and you got the RRoD before she went to turn on the TV.
Well done!!!!! Congrats!!
@Otacon91: Thing is, I think it's a good idea if you're both gamers so that's probably why these people do it. Obviously if they're not, it's not such a good idea.
Then he kicked her ass, and the divorce was agreed...
thats a beautiful story. congrats!
Should've saved the replay.
@Otacon91: Don't be such a huge tool. I'm a girl and I'd totally love to get proposed to in such a unique way!
Haha, thats great. Congratulations man!
@Otacon91:
Sorry,I guess just like a lot of people lately,I miss when Kotaku wan't 4chan Junior.
The only thing i would be able to do with my DS fanatic gf, would be to steal her DS, and mod the R4 files. Knowing her she will probably miss it for a few days... and by then I will probably have forgot that I did that in the first place. Which will then result with me sleeping on the couch.
@Kia: I'm a tool because I said that my girl, while would love getting a proposal (I hope), would probably enjoy it more if it was done in a different perhaps more...romatic or tradional means than incorperating video games into it?
That's just awesome. All the best, you guys.
That was amazing.
@Naelok: Pfft. When I proposed we were just lying in bed and I was like "Do you wanna get married?" and he was like "Yeah, sure, do you?" and I said "Yeah" and then we got married.
If she really loves him, the only thing that matters about how he proposes is that he's paying his full attention to her and he loves her (and she loves him.)
Anyone ever purposed in a GTA game? Now that would be funny.
@scotty: We all do!
@Naelok: You sir are lame.
@Otacon91: I'm with you. Maybe I should have expanded more on my opinion, but I am a fan of tradition when it comes to romance. And although it's always been a dream to date a girl who is into video games, I wouldn't want my relationship to revolve around them.
@Gamer4250: Nice going asshole, maybe you can leave Kotaku commenting alone and go outside to kick puppies and take candy from small children instead. @kidnicky: Real clever. Draw a line from Nerd Proposal to 4Chan and I will give you $5. Do it, I dare your ass.