Stumbling together through Snake, Rattle 'n' Roll - Part 1

[davidn]

As I felt I just didn't have enough video series in flight just now, kjorteo and I got together and revisited the game that started all of this in my life. Snake, Rattle 'n' Roll was a game that Kjorteo grew up with and mentioned to me when I was at work, in the context of the entire game being one continuous environment broken up into levels - and I wanted to do a playthrough of it and put up a video simply because doing a text one would have taken too long.

Getting the confidence to do that video was one of the best things that's ever happened to me - and though I didn't feel the gradual evolution over the last couple of years since I put that first one up, the difference in my voice between then and now is incredible... the original one is so timid!

Still, this time, Kjorteo was around to help - and through a surprisingly workable VirtuaNES netplay session, we bravely climbed the mountain towards the moon or whatever on earth is going on in this game. Our first chapter takes us halfway through the game by level count... but probably not by time spent or anger level. It's eighteen minutes, about five of which are spent on one screen.

http://youtu.be/8xhTttTVOiY

(Scrooge McDuck!)

Comments

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

I'm just looking at the complete map of the mountain, and that final jump that you have to do to get to the last boss. I'm still horrified at what kind of distilled sadism would make someone put a level exit in the middle of a wall miles from anywhere at the end of an icy, sloping pathway like that. Whoever made this has no soul - or alternatively, feeds parasitically on the frustrated tears of others, I'm not sure which.

D.F.

[kjorteo]

The fact that I like this game suggests the latter.

[premchaia_pre4]

Er, that phrasing does just make me think “Flowey”…