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#00 #> APPROACH #just seemed a fitting pinned post to use #ancient keep #AK8E

#3286066 #ak8e #what's subway gonna do? sue us?#ancient keep #i think subway did actually try to sue them but #its SIS so it never went anywhere #that being said ive always liked subway meatballs

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#22 #tuesday's terrible talwar tactics #ak8e #ancient keep #this is easily one of the oldest endings #really impressive they had an internal day tracking clock on the commodore 64 versions #its basically the same joke 7 times #the monday morrigan wants something mushy and kills you with a machete #the wednesday wraith wants something wet and kills you with wakizashi #etc etc

alright done some work, this should help with readability now. converted some endstates to a mobile view - less authentic but more coherent

#19830802 #game development 101: don't get shot #ak8e #ancient keep #again you can play the ancient keep IN these offices if you know where to look #like a full nested version of the game

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so i hit up a wannabe delver who's been fully cataloguing the timeline of the Ancient Keep and Skullgrinder and like it's kind of crazy.

But apparently, for the first releases of AK1e and 2e they HANDMADE THE GAME CARTRIDGES after the publisher pulled out in 83

Then just kind of hid the copies in a couple places scattered around the US, hiding it in department stores and electronics stores for people to stumble on.

And, quote, "This is very important, you have to mention one was hidden in the giftshop of the University of New England's Natural History Museum."

So if you need a sign as to the kind of game this is, that's something

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I'm pretty sure Skullgrinder Inc. is based in Miami. How did they even get there? What was the point

#ak8e #ancient keep #not an endstate #anyway sorry another endstate coming soon

so i hit up a wannabe delver who's been fully cataloguing the timeline of the Ancient Keep and Skullgrinder and like it's kind of crazy.

But apparently, for the first releases of AK1e and 2e they HANDMADE THE GAME CARTRIDGES after the publisher pulled out in 83

Then just kind of hid the copies in a couple places scattered around the US, hiding it in department stores and electronics stores for people to stumble on.

And, quote, "This is very important, you have to mention one was hidden in the giftshop of the University of New England's Natural History Museum."

So if you need a sign as to the kind of game this is, that's something

#ak8e #ancient keep #not an endstate #delving #this guy honestly doesnt seem okay #but hes working through some stuff so #his research is pretty solid at least

#22 #tuesday's terrible talwar tactics #ak8e #ancient keep #this is easily one of the oldest endings #really impressive they had an internal day tracking clock on the commodore 64 versions #its basically the same joke 7 times #the monday morrigan wants something mushy and kills you with a machete #the wednesday wraith wants something wet and kills you with wakizashi #etc etc

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its beginning to dawn on me the average person probably doesnt know about The Ancient Keep, considering how much of a pain the new edition is to get- not much fandom on this site

Have you entered The Ancient Keep?

no, and i think it scares me

no, and it's normal

yes, in the 90s - 2000s

i found it recently, and i'm scared.

explain to us laymen please

YOU HAVE BEEN SUBSUMED BY THE MOAT SLUDGE

Voting ended onJul 1, 2024

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i cant help it i just love the moat sludge ending.

so the ancient keep is a text based adventure game thats technically from i THINK the early 80s? That got buried in the gaming crash after ATARI fumbled the ball majorly

the devs (skullgrinder incorporated softworks) basically fully redo it every few years as a free download, but predominantly its pretty underground because they only ever upload it to places basically nobody can access before it gets shared. (A pentester found it in some backend access for a bank once?)

Anyway its a really weird but just unbelievably fascinating game if you can get your hands on it- the community are super gatekeepy so ive started posting some of my favorite endstates to this blog.

as far as the greater internet is concerned this game basically doesnt exist.

guess i can share more info about it here as long as the diehard keep delvers dont send me death threats abt it

#not an endstate #tumblr polls #:)#ak8e #ancient keep #for legal reasons: this game does not exist.

its beginning to dawn on me the average person probably doesnt know about The Ancient Keep, considering how much of a pain the new edition is to get- not much fandom on this site

Have you entered The Ancient Keep?

no, and i think it scares me

no, and it's normal

yes, in the 90s - 2000s

i found it recently, and i'm scared.

explain to us laymen please

YOU HAVE BEEN SUBSUMED BY THE MOAT SLUDGE

Voting ended onJul 1, 2024

#not an endstate #theres way less here than i thought #gaming #tumblr polls #ancient keep #ak8e