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 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 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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