So tonight started out like many other evenings. I was playing a spot of Commander Keen 1 before bed, and just as I'm going through the level and jumping on yorps and shit, something stopped me dead in my tracks. If you're thinking it was a garg, you're wrong.
It was this!
This game was like literally the first game I ever played on a computer, when I was however old you are in 4th grade. I can read the Standard Galactic Alphabet as if it were my own handwriting, probably because that's just what happens when your mom only gets you like two shareware games for several of your formative years. But that one pickup item, the book, I could never figure out what was written on it. It would come to me in my dreams, always as a blur, and I swear I could almost make it out when I looked to the night sky.
But tonight the mystery was solved, and I'm super thrilled. I kinda don't want to say what it says, because I don't want to spoil it for anyone else. Or prove myself to be horribly wrong.
Anyway, did you ever have a similar moment in an old video game that took you years or decades to finally and suddenly realize? I guess the closest thing to that for me was that dumbass level in Sonic 3 Carnival Night Zone. Where you have to make the cylinder thing go up and down so you can sneak through. It took me like two years to figure out that you can control it with the up and down arrows, and when I did, I kinda just felt like a moron. Still, I don't think I'm the only one in that boat. So tell me your revelations with Mario tapes and such. Unless they're spoilers, then don't tell me that shit.
It was this!
This game was like literally the first game I ever played on a computer, when I was however old you are in 4th grade. I can read the Standard Galactic Alphabet as if it were my own handwriting, probably because that's just what happens when your mom only gets you like two shareware games for several of your formative years. But that one pickup item, the book, I could never figure out what was written on it. It would come to me in my dreams, always as a blur, and I swear I could almost make it out when I looked to the night sky.
But tonight the mystery was solved, and I'm super thrilled. I kinda don't want to say what it says, because I don't want to spoil it for anyone else. Or prove myself to be horribly wrong.
Anyway, did you ever have a similar moment in an old video game that took you years or decades to finally and suddenly realize? I guess the closest thing to that for me was that dumbass level in Sonic 3 Carnival Night Zone. Where you have to make the cylinder thing go up and down so you can sneak through. It took me like two years to figure out that you can control it with the up and down arrows, and when I did, I kinda just felt like a moron. Still, I don't think I'm the only one in that boat. So tell me your revelations with Mario tapes and such. Unless they're spoilers, then don't tell me that shit.
