Stumbling through Spelunky

[davidn]

Here’s a video for today! As usual, I’m playing a game far too late - here is my very first exploration through old-style exploration platformer Spelunky. In fact, I came to this so late that there was already a remake out by the time I got there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA0TRTzid08&hd=1

Playing this game involves the precise use of bombs, and the video goes about as well as you could expect given that piece of information.

Comments

[davidn]

I downloaded the original afterwards, and it's strange seeing how low-fidelity it is in comparison! I had remembered it as being more... 16-bit than that - it was very much like going back to a game released twenty years in the past rather than only a few years ago. The music in this one reminded me of... well, Ecco the Dolphin, but in a good way, if that's possible.

I thought that a lot of very old arcade-style games I used to play were composed of randomly generated levels, but far less sophisticated than this - Spongs (Pengo) is the only one that I can actually name offhand at the moment.

It was only after finishing the video that I realized I should learn how to trigger the darts instead of rely on being able to dodge them, by throwing through a stone or a skull or a spare damsel...

And I thought I'd got the name "Farthington-Carstairs" from something, but there don't seem to be any Google results for it other than me and I can't believe that there would be no trace of the source online!