#kingdom the far reaches

[smbhax]

Thayer’s Quest (DVD)

”Thayer's Quest is a LaserDisc video game initially developed by RDI Video Systems in 1984 for their unreleased Halcyon console, and later released in arcades as a conversion kit for Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.[1] In 1995 it was ported to home consoles and PC under the title Kingdom: The Far Reaches. The arcade machine had a membrane keypad for controls instead of a joystick. To help players learn the daunting—for an arcade game—controls, a small holder containing instructional leaflets was attached to the cabinet.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thayer%27s_Quest

Rick Dyer’s company RDI Video Systems also developed Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace.

In 2006 I used a PS2 to play Digital Leisure’s DVD version of the game that I had found in an EB Games bargain bin in Seattle. Scene access times were pretty decent, and different choices can lead you to playing scenes in a different order from play to play, but at about 90% through found I was stuck because I had used a key item earlier that turned out to be required for a scene I encountered later. : P

I made these screen captures back in the day with an old video projector’s built-in 256-color floppy disc capture function, which is why they’re so color banded/dithered/distorted--the actual DVD video was smoother looking.

#thayer's quest #thayers quest #dvd #dvd game #laserdisc game #rick dyer #rdi video systems #video game #video games #kingdom the far reaches #thayer #screen capture #digital leisure #adventure #adventure game #adventure games #feast #ps2 #eb games #ebgames #bargain bin

[anodymalion]

#I like to think the light dragon is a sort of vaguely known cryptid that always flies too far up for anyone to reach #all anyone knows is that it's been around forever #anyway. I'm being normal about it #totk #totk spoilers #zelda #link #tears of the kingdom #a.art

[goldensunset]

O you, who at the world's far-off end dwell,

I know your wish- it is my wish as well.

#ephemer #khux #khml #kingdom hearts #kh #missing link #kingdom hearts union x #kingdom hearts missing link #kh ephemer #thinking about... how among the people in scala he's this legendary figure #but from a personal point of view he was simply someone riddled with grief #he founded a new world but he did so alone when he should have been with all his friends... #mine: kh #my art #so time may or may not have gotten away from me... i started this drawing in July. lol #the caption is part of old verse 2 from pokémon legends arceus #the entirety of which is absolutely perfect for ephemer but would be too long #i'll just write it in tags here: #'o you; who at the world's far-off ends dwell; i know your wish- it is my wish as well. #my own beloved is now gone from me; departed to a place i cannot reach. #my old companions have left me behind; their faces faded into days gone by. #still to my breast i clutch this hopeless dream; a futile wish for us once more to meet. #oh you; who at the world's far-off end dwell; i know your wish- it is my wish as well. #but ours are cold and endless winter days; warmed only by memories locked away.' #[minor edit: fixed the color of the lines on his shirt!] #[i am so proud of this one you don’t understand]

[theophagie]

Dream drop distance scenario and cutscene director Masaru Oka we owe everything to you............

#i wish i'd been a fly on the wall when they decided to make riku reach his hand out to touch sora's face only to then draw back #what. what was the thought process there. . #i love you internet archive. it's got lots of the ultimania volumes #though i only have this one so far because my download speed is abysmally low kek #mytext #video games #soriku #kingdom hearts

[daylighteclipsed]

Okay, the side by side is pretty wild

#the way it almost looks like one person #with the lich reaching with the left hand and sora reaching with the right #kingdom hearts #you’ve also got purple and gold as complementary colors #(green and red too but there’s not a whole lot of red) #a hellish demon tide next to the more heavenly home of the gods #riku close vs far away #I’m not sure if it really means anything beyond the lich and sora foiling each other #but I’ve always been curious about the lich #where it came from and why we’ve never seen one before

[bladesofheart]

#kingdom hearts #riku #sora #kh riku #kh sora #don't think this will have a far reach but might as well see what happens #kh

[asherlockstudy]

Me watching HotD 5th episode: This Crispin Cole is a sensitive guy who caught genuine feelings, why on earth is everyone trashing on the poor romantic dude?

Me watching HotD 5th episode ending: THE FUCK IS THIS ASSHOLE

#house of the dragon #HotD #sir criston cole #why did Leanor’s bf had to pay for this #and in THIS way #having said that and I haven’t yet reached the adult part of the story #but so far I freaking hate rhaenyra and daemon #why on earth people like them they have huge issues and they are dangerous for a kingdom #I mean rhaenyra not dangerous but certainly not suitable #Daemon is a new level of asshole #he is so assholic he loses all his sexiness

[phoenixcatch7]

Big spoilers for totk

I am not REMOTELY over zeldas seeming fate. WHAT HOW WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME NINTENDO??? WHERE'S MY MF ONLY ONE BED QPR Nintendo?!!!

ZELDA PLEASE COME HOME I CAN'T REACH YOU WHERE YOU ARE NOW

😭😭😭

#totk spoilers #<- person who's just seen memory 15 #crying sobbing weeping #Whyyyyyy Nintendo whyyyyyy I'm on the floor #Now I know why they're called dragons tears QAQ #ZELDA PLZ YOU'RE TOO FAR OUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET OVER THERE I'M AT THE TEMPLE OF TIME AND I CAN'T REACH YOU #Never mind tears of the kingdom tears of the link ToT #Tears of the ME #Zelda... If you were so close why didn't you say hi?? I would have been so confused but we would have been DELIGHTED to see you #Bestie please we need all the sages I'm collecting them like pokemon I need the full set hint hint #totk #legend of zelda #loz #loz totk #tears of the kingdom #tears of the kingdom spoilers #Man I hope people do fanart for it though... Met with a terrible fate but at least you're prettier than a deku scrub?? #I can't BELIEVE you Nintendo #loz tears of the kingdom #SPOILERS

[kitkatt0430]

I've never liked the ReDead. Creepy, screaming, undead things. Though making them dance in Majora's Mask always amuses me. But. Ugh. ReDead.

The Gibdo were slightly better. Less creepy design, though if I'm remembering correctly they could have the bandages burned off and reveal the ReDead underneath in some of the games. Yeah.

But there's something particularly unnerving about the Gibdo in Tears of the Kingdom. The design is distinctly ReDead-esque, occasionally with pretty moth wings thrown in. And the hive-like behavior is unsettling. They're evil insects that either infest dead bodies or evolved to look like dead bodies. And both ideas are fascinating, but...

It is not making it any easier for me to navigate the poorly lit Lightning Temple when the Gibdo are smacking my 'creeped out' buttons. At least these guys don't scream. They just... unnaturally elongate their spines as they get closer to a victim.

Of course its the temple that actually looks like a real Zelda dungeon that has the horror elements in it. *sigh* Careful what I wish for, indeed.

#tears of the kingdom #totk spoilers #I liked the fire temple though it wasn't difficult it was interesting #but i wasn't impressed by the water temple at all #and the wind temple was interesting to reach and had my favorite boss battle thus far but the temple itself was also not impressive #on the whole I've been enjoying totk as much if not more than botw but... #i do think there's a better balance to be struck between the open world concept and the complex zelda dungeons of old than we've gotten #that said i've just started the lightning temple and it looks complex so I'm hoping for a more zelda dungeon type experience #just... why did it have also technically be the shadow temple (spiritually anyway) with gibdo everywhere??? #kitkatt0430 plays

[mothheart]

I started exploring my first chasm for the robbie quest and whewww. Really just getting started here huh

#its soooooo cool #i knew from the first time at hyrule castle that 'zelda' was probably not actually zelda #and the more i find the more i think shes probably some kind of illusion being used by ganondorf (?) to further his hold on hyrule #/ progress his agenda until hes got his own corporeal form to use. well. one that isnt a corpse #seeing everyone talk about zelda and how worried they are and how much they miss her .... they all love her so much 😭 #that little girl in hateno who checks zelda's house every day 😭😭 and she saw illusion zelda too #and. the big storypoint locations ive reached thus far are death mountain and rito village #both are very spooky. now i really need to see gerudo town and zora's domain lol #im still like. waiting. to see. if they hold up on 'darker than majoras mask' yes. i will hold them to this bc i mean. thats a big thing #but storywise so far. i can see it #i love the rito village music so much but i dare not even try to search it to listen to lest i see the most spoilery thumbnail in the #search results. lol #i <3 being a social media hermit. i know nothing that is going on. i should do this more ofteb #my biggest thought is this is the same cherished botw experience while also managing to REALLY feel like a zelda game #im so happy #i jabe a lot of thoughts stay tuned or whatever #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #miles rambles

[latin-dr-robotnik]

The flying bike might be the best creation ever. Just hop on it and let’s fly from Kakariko to the highest sky islands

#the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #sometimes i need to go through gumball machines to get more parts #since i use the bike so much i'm constantly respawning it #but going around the world with my bike turned out to be one of the most fun things i've done so far #it speeds up map exploration so much #and no gloom hand can reach me this high up :) #though i'm yet to find a good use for it in the depths #most times i end up flying into dark areas and almost landing in gloom pools

[boanddonatetoblacktranspeople]

Kingdom Hearts Lore is So Funny a.k.a. Uh-Oh Sisters I Looked At the Kingdom Hearts Tag For A Milisecond and Caught the Brain Rot Again

Imagine many hundreds of thousands of years ago you wake up bright and early in your undersea kingdom. It is another sunshiny day for you, King Triton, ruler of the vast oceans of the Land of Fairytales. You gain word as you sit down for breakfast that there’s a civil war breaking out somewhere on the overlands. 

Ah, yes, those silly mortals on that one island with the giant key-things and the tower. Whatever they’re quarreling over, you’re sure it has nothing to do with your territories. You resume your kingly duties. It’s a fine, effective day- Kelp productivity rates are up. Seashell imports are happening as scheduled...

A shadow sets in over the castle, and you frown and look up. Odd?... The sun doesn’t set for another three hours, and there’s no eclipse scheduled. It becomes obvious that this is not some regular lunar eclipse when a GIANT HEART-SHAPED MOON appears way above the waves in a blood-red sky. This is about when the shaking starts.

By the end of this crisis, your vast kingdom of oceans will have been cut down to the size of a Super Mario Galaxy planet, and about 1/20th of the country of Denmark. Beyond that is the vast empty darkness of space. What in the absolute fucking Poseidon just happened?

#and then tens of thousands of years later a fourteen year old kid shows up with one of those keys #and you unceremoniously tell them to fuck off #you are now the proud ruler of a FUCKING LAKE #of course youre afraid youll lose your daughter you lost like EVERYTHING ELSE #oh my god did the other gods make it out ok you cant even find a way to reach hera or zeus! #Kingdom Hearts #Kingdom Hearts Union Cross #Kingdom Hearts Unchained #Kingdom Hearts lore #Kingdom Hearts story #i do love that this implies Britain got split up like 5 different ways #But does Wonderland have 1/5th of England on it? #Did Alice just teleport there? Can you imagine Alice somehow using the Lanes Between or whatever #freaking ASTRONAUT ALICE LIDDELL #Star Trek's United Federation of Planets but it's filled with people like the Red Queen and Halloweentown's Mayor #Donald Duck: Sora you cant break the Prime Directive! #The Little Mermaid #King Triton #while im here im psyched for halle bailey ariel thar be big mad racists out there #but its a disney live action remake so the hope only swims so far #hey remember when monstro survived his entire world going to sleep and became a space whale #Kingdom Hearts I #kingdom hearts sora #kingdom hearts spoilers #kingdom hearts dark road #KH: DR #kingdom hearts union x #Lost Masters #The Foretellers #more like the Loretellers

[amazingdemigodstuff]

I've spent the past hour trying to get over the spikes surrounding the Hyrule Field Skyview Tower and I JUST walked over to get more trees and fucking. There's a fucking ramp on the ONE part of the hill I didn't walk go. I'm going to scream

#and HOUR #I wasted two balloons #tried to build a contraption to get iver the spiles but the hand thing has atrocious reach and I couldn't get it up far enough #so thn I tried my go-to method of glueing a bunch of tree trunks together and making a ramp #but I KEPT FALLING #and there's a fucking ramp💀 #totk #tears of the kingdom #anyone else do smth like this?? #my post #I feel very stupid rn ngl

[gotyouanyway]

#i’m trying so hard and they’re giving me NOTHING #there is a way i could make it make sense but if i reach that far i’m gonna fall off something. #the twilight kingdom lb #p

[regallibellbright]

Bro’s playing Chrono Trigger, hopefully with intent to finish this time, I suspect.

I stalled out when playing DS during the final sidequests, but therefore functionally played the entire game and have been trying very hard not to spoil That Particular Plot Point. (If you have to ask you don’t know which it is.)

This led to me going “wait, how far in is he” after he got kicked out of Zeal the first time, which led me down the rabbit hole of the Chrono Compendium wiki, which does not just have theory pages but DISSERTATIONS on how time travel would have to work in these games. So now it’s 3:45 AM. I’m pleased with how I have spent this time.

#the answer is 'not yet' #He figured out the Prophet's identity but I forgot the Prophet exists straight-up so I accidentally spoiled Janus to him #he does not mind that one since he DID call the Prophet part #(also it was me remarking on a name and Bro immediately made the jump from there to Janus) #he also figured Magus was either the final boss or a party member. Me: Well he's one of those. Bro: Is he mutually exclusive with Frog? #Me: No you're good they can reach an Understanding. #Bro: Good because even if the game demanded I use Magus or get the bad ending if I couldn't use Frog I'd get the bad ending #(he had previously referred to Frog as the main character and if it's not him it's Magus. Bro likes knights. Crono who?) #I did say Atlantis would fall (forgetting the name of the kingdom) but like. That's just what Atlantises DO. #They represent a shining technological and magical marvel far exceeding the modern world. And then they fall. Cataclysmically. #This is their narrative purpose and has been since fucking Plato. #they are the hubris of man made manifest. Often inherently and fundamentally flawed in a way that allows them to flourish #but will ultimately bring them down. Sometimes the flaw is merely 'humans didn't realize there was a volcano there.' #and sometimes a giant space tick that's been influencing the course of human history advertently or no is involved

[babymagi]

I put the badges from con on my backpack and ofc I put these two next to each other and legit the other ones move around so much and they just stick together it's fate

#I'm convinced it's like toy story and when i leave the room they just start making out #the absolute choke hold this ship has on me that i will literally reach so far for it's stamp of canon #magi #magi labyrinth of magic #magi kingdom of magic #alibaba saluja #judar #aliju #juali