{"id":388,"date":"2009-02-06T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T07:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2009-02-06T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T07:46:10","slug":"time-travel-and-cavern-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/time-travel-and-cavern-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"… time travel and “Cavern Creatures” …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long ago … I would play this game on an Apple IIe computer at my cousin Ian’s house. It was called “Cavern Creatures”. The game itself was okay … nothing terribly difficult … with mildly humorous enemies such as Pac-Man and a Rubik’s Cube.<\/p>\n

I must have been about 10 years old (or less) at the time. I still miss the monochrome green graphics of the Apple II and various PC computers of the time. I wish that someone would skin a contemporary OS with that style or at least let me run my computer from a blinking, green rectangular prompt, but I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon. It looks like we’re headed towards more translucent, shaded nonsense.<\/p>\n

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ANYWAY!<\/p>\n

So … after you solve the game … I remember the title screen would scroll down, slowly panning over the body of the Cavern Creature depicted above. My cousin and I screamed in terror as an unspoken male appendage was revealed in gruesome detail before our eyes. This image was not present on the main title screen … it only appeared to us later on … a disturbing introduction to the world of video game easter eggs circa 1984.<\/p>\n

I recently decided to search for a screen cap of this disgusting image to prove that it indeed was real and not some bizarre memory. I found nothing online.<\/p>\n

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Trust me … I Googled every combination of “Cavern Creatures _______” fill in the blank that I could think of and let me tell you – I don’t recommend anyone<\/em> try that. Luckily, I contacted my cousin Ian and he verified that the image was real and proceeded to curse me for the “refresh”.<\/p>\n

I believe some force has gone back in time and erased this image for some unknown reason. In the internet age, I cannot believe that information like this would not be available. The Wikipedia page<\/a> is devoid of any reference to the “shocker”. There is a vague reference to a “surprise” but they got it wrong.<\/p>\n

So, time traveling evildoers, I’m on to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long ago … I would play this game on an Apple IIe computer at my cousin Ian’s house. It was called “Cavern Creatures”. The game itself was okay … nothing terribly difficult … with mildly humorous enemies such as Pac-Man …<\/p>\n

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