I’m *sniff* so proud

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My little girl has slain her first dragon.

Caroline, entirely on her own, played through “Dragon’s Lair” on Kathleen’s iPad. Okay, not entirely. She needed me to navigate the battle against the Chessboard Knight. Other than that, it was all her. She went all the way through to the Lair, slew the dragon and saved the princess.

She has displayed no interest thus far in taking on “Space Ace.”

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20 comments on “I’m *sniff* so proud”

  1. Darn! She got further than I ever did or will. Congratulations, Caroline! I’m actually jealous!

    1. Right there with you on that one. I am pitiful at these sorts of games but, fortunately, she inherited Daddy’s cat-like reflexes.

      1. Thirded. There are some games I’m fairly good at, but Dragon’s Lair and related games were never on that list. Major kudos to Caroline!

  2. Kudos! So, has she seen HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON? Kinda different treatments of dragons in the two.

    1. She loves that film. If you go back to July on my blog, in my Shoreleave report ther are pictures of her in her Astrid costume

  5. My four-year-old granddaughter hunted down someone who stole from her in World of Warcraft and killed them…

  7. We’re talking about the classic old animated video game I loved in the 80s?

  8. Good Lord!! Space Ace made my head explode!!!
    I thought it would be a breeze after playing Dragons Lair, but WOW it was actually faster, and there was so much going on in that game!! I think I Spent hundreds of tokens at the arcade trying to beat that sucker!!

    1. And, according to an article at TVTropes about unwinnable games, there is at least one fork in “Space Ace” that is 100% unsurvivable, no matter what you do.

      2. Dammit. I hit it by accident while link-chasing in TVTropes, just yesterday (or maybe the day before – i’m living on a more-or-less random sleep/wake cycle these days; went thirty-six-plus hours yesterday, then crashed at 8 PM till 4 AM and i’m still up…).
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        And i just spent half-an-hour looking for it and i can’t reconstruct the chain.
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        If i could remember which page i started at…

    2. Yeah, well, bad news: “Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp” made “Space Ace” look like it was playing in slow motion. I kid you not. The Beethoven section alone was enough to drive you insane. I eventually beat that game, too, but I have a measured reaction time of a quarter of a second.
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      1. [quote]I doubt it. I’ve done every possible path on “Space Ace” and haven’t found one I couldn’t beat.[/quote]

        Heh. I remember dumping quarter after quarter into that game in an arcade in the 80s. People would gather around to watch me beat it.

        I remember one time when I had a sizeable crowd and I was telling them, “This isn’t the one you want to watch. I’m going to die.” They didn’t believe me, so when I made a move which killed me *right* before the final move, they all groaned. I turned around and said “I warned you! I was playing that time to see what the animation for dying was at that moment — it’s the only one I hadn’t seen yet.”

  9. I recommend this recent something*positive strip and the three or four following.
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    After reading the first, i dropped Randy an email mentionong Maggie’s exploit in WoW. I have no doubt that he had the subsequent strips planned, if not finished when he got it, but…
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    Likewise, i posted a comment on Pab Sungenis’s “New Adventures of Queen Victoria” on a Tuesday or Wednesday, and got no response ’til Friday … because, he said, it was the punchline to the week’s running gag.

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