Games
- The videogame, Alpha Protocol, features a character known as Albatross. One of the dossier packages players can unlock for him states that he takes his name from the poem, which alludes to the vengeance he unleashes if hurt
- In the online computer game Guild Wars the opening lines of NPC Samti Kohlreg's dialogue and the name of his quest reference the poem and the author.
- The Ancient Mariner appears as a rare miniature in the game Horrorclixs 2008 Nightmares set, carrying the soul of a dead sailor and a piece of the Albatross.
- The collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering, contains several cards that reference the poem.
- In the Soulcalibur series of video games, the pirate Cervantes de Leon has a throw move named "Curse of the Ancient Mariner" (called "Rime of Ancient Mariner" in the Japanese version). Shura, a Japanese demon slayer appearing in Soulcalibur IV can also use the move, despite having no connection to mariners, the high seas or anything else mentioned in the poem- this is because she shares a moveset with Cervantes.
- In the online computer game Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, in the city of Martok, there is an NPC (non-player character) Orc named Rolyat Leumas, the Ancient Seafarer of Martok. If the player questions him, he will tell the complete story of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with minor modifications to make it appropriate to the game world. The character's name is "Samuel Taylor" spelled backward.
- The online computer game, World of Warcraft, contains a quest named "Horn of the Ancient Mariner" as well as an obtainable weapon called the "Crossbow of the Albatross".
- Fallout: New Vegas DLC "Lonesome Road" is significantly inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Part VI, stanza 11 which reads “Like one that on a lonesome road / Doth walk in fear and dread, / And having once turned round walks on, / And turns no more his head; / Because he knows a frightful fiend / Doth close behind him tread.”
- Some game maps in Heroes of Might and Magic III contain floating bottles on the water, that give quotes from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner when inspected by a player's hero.
- In Bioshock Infinite, the vigor (potion) "Undertow" is advertized by the vigor dispenser machine with the words "Ancient mariner, disperse the hated albatross with the vigor Undertow".
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Famous quotes containing the word games:
“The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As long as lightly all their livelong sessions,
Like a yardful of schoolboys out at recess
Before their plays and games were organized,
They yelling mix tag, hide-and-seek, hopscotch,
And leapfrog in each other’s way all’s well.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)