"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
-- Groucho Marx

Congratulations! I got good score!

WOO-HOO! WOO-HOO! WOO-HOO!

I BEAT TROGDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS THE BEST GAME I’VE EVER PLAYED!!!!!!!

OK. Phew.

It’s a real bear because there are 100 levels, and there’s no way I’m doing that in one sitting. And there’s no way to save the game. So I had to do 5 levels here, 10 levels here over the course of a few days, pausing the game every so often (wasting precious electricity while I’m at work not using the comp, since turning it off would obviously wipe out all progress).

Maybe it’s not a true victory, in that I used the cheat code to get 27 extra mans in the beginning (you normally get 3). And I needed 23 of them to win. Even so. Around level 92, it looked like I was going to fall just short:

Trogdor Level 92

And at level 96, I was down to 4 mans. Fortunately, that was the last difficult level, as level 97 cycled back to the start of the cottage placement cycle. (There are 32 cottage placements, more or less trending easy to hard)

Trogdor Level 100

You get a free mans every 300 points. That means I earned 48 mans, for a total of 78 (including the ones I started out with), and burned burninated through 72 of them.

The ending was pitiful (undoubtedly on purpose):

Trogdor Victory Screen

It shows the characters, says “Keep Playing” at the end, then sends you to level 101.

Enough of that. Time to do work now.

August 8th, 2007 17 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Gaming

  1. annie posted the following on 9 August 2007 at 11:55 am.

    it’s MEN! or LIVES! “mans”?!?! what are you, 5?!?! then again you *are* indecently happy about winning a video game so maybe you are 5. HAHAHA congrats. kinda like caro and her paneldupon.

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  2. Donnie Briggs posted the following on 9 August 2007 at 3:06 pm.

    “Mans” is the term used in the game itself. Along with “burninate” instead of “burn”.

    You are correct about my maturity level, however. I’ll ask you (or Caro) what a paneldupon is later.

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  3. Dylan Groh posted the following on 15 December 2011 at 6:50 pm.

    cool beans, this was the only picture I could find about this.

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  4. Robert posted the following on 16 December 2011 at 1:03 pm.

    Good times, good times. When one has a wife or girlfriend these 100 level games get increasingly hard to complete…

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  5. Donnie posted the following on 18 December 2011 at 3:59 pm.

    Fortunately, my girlfriend likes video games more than me!

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    1. Katrushka posted the following on 18 December 2011 at 5:42 pm.

      Grammar Nazi sez…

      My girlfriend likes video games more than *I*. You’re just making it sound like I like video games more than I like you, and that’s not true. :( (except when you’re cranky)

      <3

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      1. Derek Slater posted the following on 19 December 2011 at 10:49 am.

        Me don’t know what you’re problem is.

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        1. Katrushka posted the following on 19 December 2011 at 7:26 pm.

          I see you’ve let Bizarro Derek post for you :D

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        2. The Mascot posted the following on 20 December 2011 at 5:11 pm.

          Grammar is for wimps.

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        3. Katrushka posted the following on 20 December 2011 at 9:31 pm.

          I don’t even want advice from an egg that never gets laid.

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        4. Allen posted the following on 21 December 2011 at 3:11 pm.

          Has details of the mascots’ birth ever been revealed? This might be the biggest revelation yet. This was an egg that was not laid by an avian…

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        5. Donnie posted the following on 21 December 2011 at 5:02 pm.

          We’re still not sure, to be honest. According to the Mascot, “My first memory is pushing open the top of an egg carton, then stepping out of the container and into an aisle of the dairy section.”

          But he’s probably just embarrassed and is hiding something.

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        6. Robert posted the following on 22 December 2011 at 2:58 pm.

          I always thought he was born in the wagon of a travelin’ show, and his Mama would dance for the money they’d throw…

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        7. Donnie posted the following on 22 December 2011 at 3:20 pm.

          Unfortunately, I wasn’t cultured enough to recognize those as lyrics from a Cher song.

          Did you know Cher is pronounced more like “share” than “chur”? Criminy.

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        8. Katrushka posted the following on 22 December 2011 at 7:34 pm.

          It’s French, you uneducated heathen.

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        9. Q posted the following on 22 December 2011 at 8:02 pm.

          Yeah, uneducated heathen :)

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        10. Allen posted the following on 23 December 2011 at 9:40 am.

          Damn, an egg walking into the dairy aisle. All we need was for someone to walk by with a bottle of liquor and we’d have egg nog good to go. I wonder if the Mascot realizes how close to eggnoggy death he was.

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