Riddle of the Sphinx on the Atari 2600 for me. 1982.
I had no idea that Tim Buckley was still alive
I’m amazed that his reputation is still intact, and that he still gets a loyal following. I would’ve thought he’d take the money he’s made and find a corporate art job somewhere by now.
Did he do/say something that should have trashed his reputation? I used to read Ctrl+alt+del like 15 years ago (I recent found my signed copies of the first two hardcover collections) but I haven’t followed in forever.
I could be wrong but I think it was just a combo of people growing tired of his copy+paste art, overdone humor, and the fact he used his wife’s miscarriage for content in a humor comic. I don’t wanna tell someone how to grieve but it doesn’t really seem like a subject for a funny comic strip.
There were some serious allegations made that he’d sent a pic of his dick to an underage girl, leading to something crazy like 60% of people being banned from his own forums.
Why, I’d rather be beloved for my angry alcoholic blender.
Super Mario Bros 2 World 6-3
This is incredibly relevant to me. I just finished playing through it last week.
What a coincidence, same here!
This will also yield benefits in Dead Cells iirc.
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A 3-panel CTRL+ALT+DEL comic by Tim Buckley.
The first panel shows a blond man wearing a green sleeveless shirt, long brown pants, sturdy brown boots, brown bracers, and a belt and sash, standing against a forested backdrop with a signpost to his right reading “START”.
The second panel shows the START signpost is far to the right edge of the panel and the blond man has turned and walked directly into a rock wall with an onomatopoeic WHUMP!
The last panel shows a brown-haired, bearded man in green shirt, blue pants and glasses, sitting on a cream-coloured couch next to a blond-haired boy wearing a blue shirt and black shorts. The man is holding a controller for a video game console. The boy says “Why do you always start every level in every game by turning around and running backwards?”. The man replies “because one time a game hid a secret behind the start position and my OCD decided I have to suffer for the rest of my life.”
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The only other game besides DKC I know of with something like that is in 1-1 on Demon’s Souls. Turn around from where the Archstone takes you, and there is an item behind some rubble toward the wall/gate. It’s not as cool as a secret as the banana hoard tho.
I bet it’s much more common in newer 2D platformer games just because of that, though. I don’t really play those myself.
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B^ U
That secret entrance behind a waterfall in the original Legend of Zelda meant that I’ve been checking every waterfall in every game I’ve ever played since 1986.
There’s a secret behind the Zora waterfall in TotK too.
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I think I remember there being one in A Link to the Past on SNES also
It can’t be too secret, I’m mean I haven’t even played TOTK and even I know about it.
Joking aside, I have been playing BOTW and I check every body of water and mountain peak I come across because theres usually something, but that’s also because there’s so many things to find. SNES games though, 99% of the time there’s nothing, but everytime I see dark spot in the ground, I’m smacking the shit out of it in hopes i get a fat stack of bananas.
It’s a common trope. I won’t link it but I’m sure there’s a TVTropes page for that.
It’s just so disappointing when there’s NO secret behind the waterfall
Don’t go chasing waterfalls
I have been playing the new game sea of stars and its an old school rpg. I check all the places and several have had chests behind waterfalls and it always puts a smile on my face when I find them there.
Is this the guy behind that POS Loss comic?
I think so
Yes he’s the guy behind the genius work of art we know as Loss
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DK Country on SNES is one of my all-time favorite games that I continually go back and play. I remember the bliss I felt when I finally beat it, which seemed impossible to 4yo me.
I’m pretty sure I can farm lives on the first level with my eyes closed with how many times I’ve ran it
Does everyone else remember that one long snow barrel level as much as I do? Beating that level specifically for the first time gave me such dopamine.
It’s one of the best for sure. Every sound effect in that game is nostalgic for me.
One time my friend was playing some shitty 3D platformer made for kids that was distributed with cornflakes or some other shit and when he turned around and gone forward he just fell through the floor to limbo, lol.
Chex Quest!
No, not that one :) It was in Poland and it was some newer game, I think from late 00’s or early 10’s.
As for Chex Quest, it is actually on my backlog, as I have lately began to play all kind of old first person shooters and related games :)
Hey now, that wasn’t a shit 3D platformer, it was just a silly Doom mod 😀
James pond does it to
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Limbo
Important distinction is that you needed to travel both left and right to get through Metroid, while DKC was a strictly to the right affair (with some up and down as well.
You go left to find a secret. I go left because games can’t tell me what to do.
We’re not the same
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Mega Man X6, Inifnity Mijinion’s second part of the stage, also hid an armor piece and the heart tank by “going left” instead of right. Found that by complete accident one day, rubbing a cloth on the controller and dashing left
