On this week's installment of Weird Game Wednesday, I'd like to point your angelic eyes to Satan's Hollow: A game with spaceships, Satan, and a really good choice of font style. Funny enough,
that cleancut kid from Star Trek is a writer for The Onion and also shares my occassional love of Satan (but outweighed by my love of breasts). Whil Wheaton writes:
"Gameplay:
It's 1982, so of course you have to enter Satan's Hollow in a spaceship.
To pull this off, you build a bridge across a river of fire by picking up pieces from the left side of the screen and dropping them onto the right side of the screen. You have a shield that will protect you (for about .08 seconds) from the gargoyles and demons dropping World War II-style bombs. When the bridge is completed, you cross into the game's eponymous locale and face down Satan himself.
If you avoid his magic pitchforks and destroy him, you won't save mankind from eternal damnation, but you will earn bonus points and an extra laser blaster for your space ship. Kids today may not like it because: Satan looks more like a sea monkey than like the Prince Of Darkness..."
Quite true, and in the Atari version he looks like Marmaduke's severed head. But look at how sweet the cocktail table was. In the 80's, arcade cabinets were built with Harley Davidson-type love. None of this big, bright green, plastic, neon crap. (Yeah, House of the Dead 4, I'm looking at you, honey). Here,
put one on your computer desk.
Check out the rest of the story on The AV Club
So where can you get this game today? Unless you know of any speciality arcade that has odd 80's games and a thirst for wasting electricity, your only hope of playing this is to find it on the Mame PC emulator.
Full text on The Onion's A.V. Club [ Gracias, Nido ]
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1:59 PM on 08.23.2006
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