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reminds me of a game I used to play
Reminds me of a Simpsons episode
Whoah, I wonder if the animator played Zillion. The Simpsons were on The Tracey Ullman show starting the same year Zillion was released.
Thank goodness.
I get all the others, but the 4 is messing with my head.
Yeah, not sure what’s up with 4
What is it called?
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zillion_(video_game)
https://archive.org/details/Zillion_1987_U
OMG I WAS GONNA SAY THE SAME THING BUT I THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD HAVE A CLUE WHAT I WAS TAKING ABOUT!!!!! I've never met anyone in real life or online who ever heard of Zillion!
Yeah, I’ve never seen it mentioned ever either.
Funny thing is it took until I played it on an emulator to realize that the code symbols were just the numbers 1, 2, 3… mirrored. When I was a kid and first played it, I used to have names for the shapes they made Like M, Heart, 8, U, Bottle…
TIL
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