I was just reading about the Invisible Dot in Adventure the other day… there was this easter egg in “Adventure,” which was a really trippy game.
Adventure had dragons, and castles, and you had to get the Chalice back to the Yellow Castle.
The best thing about it was since it came out very early, no one had the manual (the manuals to Atari games always got lost), so there was all this oral mythology built up around the game. Like we called the dungeons “catacombs,” and all the dragons had names. Everyone had a theory on why the Bat did what it did, and how to fight the different dragons.I don’t know if the names were from the manual, or if someone’s dad came up with them… the green one was called Grendel, and the Red one was called Yorick. I don’t remember the yellow dragon’s name, but he looked like Big Bird. The game was full of magic because of the oral history that surrounded it.
Anyway, the Invisible Dot was this thing somewhere in the Black Castle, where Yorick would hang out… After you kill Yorick, you somehow find this Invisible Dot using the Bridge or the Magnet or both… then you take it and put it behind a wall, and something secret happens. We must have spent dozens of hours trying to find this damn thing, and in retrospect no wonder, because we were missing large amounts of details. Which wall? How do you find it if it’s invisible? How would you use the Magnet or the Bridge to get this thing? And what happens when you do this anyway? I have since found out the real names of the dragons. And the plot. And a lot of hints that make the game a lot less mysterious. So I’m not going to tell you any of this legitimate information, because it’s no fun.
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