Tricky Pixelly Boulders
First published 7/3/1997

When I was in junior high, the coolest videogame in the arcades was Jungle Hunt.

In Jungle Hunt you were a little Tarzan guy, and you had to leap from pixelly vine to pixelly vine. Then you had to run up a pixelly hill and jump over some pixelly, poorly-animated boulders. Then probably something else happened, but I'm not sure what, because I always got run over by those boulders.

I never could get the hang of it. My little Tarzan guy would get through the pixelly vines OK, but the minute those boulders showed up he would get squashed into poorly-animated pixelly goo. Then my friend would take over and play the game for the rest of the lunch hour.

Naturally, this upset me. To this day I still can't see giant boulders rolling down on me without getting upset. Especially if they're pixelly.

To make matters worse...

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