Game:

Space Quest IV (1991)

Duration: 2:51

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The word "@&"/(%&#%" came to mind after each of the first six times you lost a perfectly clean run to unlucky framerule patterns at the lasers, but only after the seventh time did you snap completely and curse swimfan for ever finding this ¤%"&@¤/(&%/( skip.

(In truth I only lost three actually clean runs to laser skip, though the count of lost WRs altogether undoubtedly went well beyond seven. I *thought* this was going to be another painful laser death, but somehow I lucked into hitting the skip in a different way from usual, the more common scenario is that the seventh laser hits just as Roger is reaching the top of the ladder instead of the bottom.)

That threw me off and I fumbled the end pretty badly; but fortunately it was still 2:19 on retime. I'll leave it there, I've had enough of Swimfan's Stupid Skip for now (and needing to reboot DOSBox every five minutes to reduce lag on this potato computer is not helping).

(I have lost count of how many times I've said some variation of "I hope this is the last 10-second barrier in Space Quest 4"...)

Played in DOSBox 0.74, maximum cycles.

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