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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Ice Baby1 on November 25, 2014, 05:55:40 pm
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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 (https://web.archive.org/web/20010430235511/http://www.x68kpile.com/), 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 out.
What is the connection between Karateka and Green Giant. We've all heard the stories I'm sure. Dude finds a Karateka rom for the X68000 that immediately goes nuts. I thought I heard somebody talking about this a while ago, saying it was totally a real thing that made sense and gave an explanation, but now I don't know where that was and everything I can find on the subject is just people trying to pick up loose ends from the x68kgamespile the original rom was allegedly from. http://www.lakupo.com/grblitz/karagren.wav]Here (http://[url=http://www.lakupo.com/grblitz/karagren.wav%5DHere) is the recorded sound.[/url] So, what's the deal. I need to know. Is it true... or false...?? I need to know the truth.
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It wouldn't be the strangest thing Green Giant's been involved with.
(http://i.imgur.com/5AmdfFR.jpg)
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The Cursed Earth where fascist antiheroes make long journeys watched over and kept alive by benevolent corporate figures...... Isn't our Earth the Cursed one, if you think about it?... V. intriguing...
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I dunno but I'm going to sample it
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btw I guess Superdonate has been gone for ages now??? Hope I didn't come off as preachy or something having it as my sig