Stolen Pixels #35: Total Rewind 2

[Shamus Young]

Stolen Pixels #35: Total Rewind 2

The poor Prince of Persia rewound time too much and ended up as a pixel face. Things couldn't possibly get any worse, right?

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[DaveMc]

"Your bones shatter as you strike the cold stone floor . . . "

As I recall, my most common mode of death in that game was more along the lines of: "Your body is intercepted, inches from the floor, by a forest of spikes. They bear your corpse aloft, a grisly warning for all who may pass this way."

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Just rewind your suici... Oh wait, you're in a new game, pwn3d. I love this little comic strips, small and not that much text to bore me!

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

I don't know why, but the "pixel face" remark just cracked me up.

 

[i64ever]

Adventure! That Shamus is why you are the king! I can't tell you how many hours I spent in that game killing dragons...er...touching squiggly duck lookin guys with an arrow. That was big fun in 1978....We're both really old.

 

[Mistwraithe]

Clever... very clever. I like the nostalgia though I question how many other viewers there are old enough to have experienced the wonder that was/is Adventure?

 

[Shamus Young]

Clever... very clever. I like the nostalgia though I question how many other viewers there are old enough to have experienced the wonder that was/is Adventure?

I was wondering the same thing. Given the small number of responses, my guess is "not many".

Dang kids!

 

[Saskwach]

Us dang kids have been lectured by enough crotchety old fogies to get the joke - even though it inevitably lacks the immediacy of a Half-Life gag, for instance.

 

[JakubK666]

Adventure...the first game that had an easter egg, amirite?

 

[Shamus Young]

According to Wikipedia, yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Adventure

Man, the hours I lost on that game.

 

[Caedrel]

There was an Easter Egg in Adventure?!? MAAAAANNNN!

Never did like the randomised adventures. I have now learned something I never knew before...

 

[trlkly]

It was only random if you had it on the 3 setting, (according to Wikipedia. I sadly never owned this game. But I still have my Atari!)

 

[Valiance]

Holy god, I feel terrible for remembering both games and having completed neither.

I still have my 2600 downstairs, too.

Hilarious comic, by the way.

 

[coldfrog]

It was not an Easter Egg! It was a duck egg!

Long live the classics!

 

[Tarrker]

I remember playing the hell out of Adventure. I think plenty of other people played it too, they're just not the same people that would be on The Escapist web site