That’s the ‘me too it is good’ portion out of the way; the actual interesting thing occurred when I recently switched to gamepad from the keyboard controls for the sake of ergonomics. My pad was being a bit flaky and sending uncommanded ups, which kept committing me to starting from level 1 rather than taking the shortcut. I always played through rather than suiciding or quitting, because Spelunkying is a journey not a destination. Much to my surprise, twice out of about 10 occasions, half-playing, I suddenly found myself walking into World 2! C…Competence? What are you doing here? I don’t truck with you! I think the last time I so starkly felt myself actually get better at a game was Grid Wars 2.

Also I just a few days ago discovered the jumping downward bomb throw, which is terrific for piranha ponds and convenient in many other situations. That makes me happy too.

Having said that, I found the sidebar in that article reminded me of ZangbandTK which I’m now playing like a demon again; I’d forgotten all about it. Such good memories.

BAH. WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY. Now I must MANUALLY buy a copy?! What kind of poorper does this?!

Actually, I seem to do that everywhere. You’d think I’d have learned by now.

[Spoilers for article]Except the two of us were allies, both shouting orders to each other’s non-existent soldiers and being confused by the others requests.[/Spoilers]