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简介
Foreward by Ben Thompson (badassoftheweek.com) Are you ready for an adventure? Dust off the old four eighty-six, untangle your controller cables and run a Google Image Search for what an arcade looked like in 1987, because you are about to go down a rabbit hole of old-school video gaming history that isn't going to let go of your throat until Ultimate Evil is vanquished, destinies have been fulfilled, and little mushroom-headed pipsqueaks stop telling you that your princesses are in another castle! From epic King's Quest anthems to creepy Ghosts 'N Goblins cemetery themes, this is a legendary journey into the deepest, most obscure regions of ancient nostalgia, wrenching forth from the darkest crevasses of your memory, tales of the greatest and most glorious digital music ever encoded into an eight or sixteen-bit system. It's Nobuo Uematsu shredding electric guitars with explosions and fireworks ripping off behind him. It's Warcraft Two, Zelda, Castlevania, and Mega Man all thrown together into one somehow-seamless journey that will take you from quiet peaceful tutorial-level grade forests to the inner sanctum of Dracula's most nefarious final boss kitchen lair. But it's more than just a Gold Saucer-style roller coaster ride of the greatest RPG themes ever written, faithfully recreated in a manner that cranks them all the way up to eleven-bit. It's also the epic tale of Nathaniel the Boar Knight, an armor-wearing, rat-summoning, cloven-hoofed warrior who snorts first, doesn't bother with the small talk, and lets his sword do the talking. When prophesies are written, his family is wronged, and foul things go down that are far from kosher, it's on this grunter's pork shoulders to quest for justice with the ferocity of a warthog and the sort of single-minded determination that makes Zelda's hero look like little more than a Denny's menu sausage link! Along the way, he'll unravel a mystery wrapped tighter than a ham-and-cheese burrito, encounter friendly witches, less-friendly undead liches, and ferocious dragons, and ultimately learn why it truly is dangerous to go alone. He'll also learn a few random grammar lessons in the process, thanks to the efforts of a narrator that doesn't seem to be able to grasp the intensity of this Salami Warrior's mission. So rise from your grave, grab a mug of delicious hot chocolate or cider, sit back, and get ready to embark on an adventure so over-the-top intense that half the band and at least two computers nearly died during the process of making the album. By the time it's over, there's little doubt that you'll be bacon for more!
