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I could try to explain this, but seven
years after it happened I still can't make sense of it.
Anyway, the X68000 is a Japanese
computer that was really powerful for its time, and is really
expensive now. It used an operating system remarkably similar
to DOS, but when it comes to playing video games, no other computer
from the early 1990's short of an SGI workstation could rival
it.
As for this particular game, it's
called Galaxian Spoof. I downloaded it, then lost it, then
spent the last six years trying to find it again. If it
weren't for the photo and sound file on this page, I'd think that
this was the product of a mushroom-induced hallucination... and I
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Jordan Mechner fans might
want to pay close attention to this... this is easily the freakiest
thing you'll ever find in a translation of one of his games. I
downloaded a Galaxian spoof from the X68000 Games
Pile, and even though it
wouldn't work with my X68K emulator, I did find a version of
Karateka included along with it. So I load that instead and
Karateka's blonde martial arts hero pops up in front of some very
garbled background graphics. I figured that the emulator was
just having problems running the game, but now I'm not so
sure.
You see, after I walked for
a little while a wispy green thing briefly appeared... and shortly
after that a siren started screaming, pushing me a few inches back
every time it rang out. Despite my attempts to hold my ground,
I was eventually shoved back to the start, dumped into an invisible
pool of water, and given a solid red screen while a familiar voice
shouted, "Ho ho ho, Green Giant!"
Just why on earth does this
happen? Did the Japanese version of Karateka have some bizarre
marketing tie-in with produce, or is this just the world's most
insane video game in-joke? Somebody please explain this to me,
because if I keep thinking about it and I don't come up with a
rational explanation my brain is gonna short
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