Beepy boopy

Seems like I am putting on my VR headset here for the first time in this series. Only took 31 games. Not bad. Given that I only have like... 3 games total of over 100 games that actually use VR in The Winter Jackpot.

So once I get my usual dose of VR technical issues resolved, we can get into this final Pixel Ripped adventure! So it looks like despite this being Pixel Ripped 1978, it actually takes place after the events of Pixel Ripped 1995. Since the game literally starts with a story of our girl Dot saving the universe and guarding the Pixel Stone. Talking about her master and her ability to use player sync. All to defeat the great evil Cyblin Lord. It's been a year since the town was at peace and they're going to do an anniversary party for that. Finally, I get free control and am able to walk around my house. It's not much but it sure is cozy. After reading a brief blurb about the Pixel Stone, I head out and greet my village people. It's actually been long enough since I finished Pixel Ripped 1995 that I forgot that this village is made up of both 2D and 3D sprite figures. Seems like our people are... uh... well they sort of figured out how to live their lives? I spend a short while looking for Kit's cat... before I gave the fuck up. What she got it up there. She can get it down. So I just speak with Carlos because the game is just BEGGING me to talk to him. All that just for me to give him... a fucking carrot. Apparently I just happen to have a hoe equipped... why not? So I hack and slash shit away Zelda style until I get this dude his carrot. After that, oh! It's a visit from our master! How nice? So it seems like Cyblin Lord is on the horizon huh? Man... that fucker just won't give up. I guess he figures if he can't easily get what he wants NOW... he'll just take what he wants THEN... you see what I mean? He's fucking time travelling! So he's going after Inspiration Crystals huh? Artifacts representing the creation of the game world. Yeah those sound pretty important to me. Thankfully, it seems like we already have time machine power. So that's what we have to use at this moment. I get dressed and prepare for the adventure. And... oh boy... yeah seems like little Cyblin's work is already fucking with our world. My hoe sure does come in handy to bust down these giant rocks. Only I can go through the time machine. But master trusts me as he'll be keeping an eye on the present day village. So I travel back and... woah... everything looks so... vectory... is that even a word?

Looks like Master is able to contact me from the future. Don't know how that works but... sure... There's no Time Breaches around. So we have to use player sync instead. The player in question? A lady named... "Bug". Boy I hope whoever named her got fucking arrested. XD! So I got to look for a sync platform. This C4rlos dude is offering a portal. That could come in handy. All he needs is a chicken. Sounds easy enough. I find a house with a good looking chicken in its yard. So I... (ahem)... borrow the chicken and hand it to C4rlos. From there I am able to use the portal and activate player sync! So "Bug" is just her nickname. Her full real name is Barbara Rivers... okay... nevermind about arresting whoever named her. She's a game developer working on a game called "Cyblin Whipped". When I get to her world, I see that I am in her little work cubicle. Looks like we had a Pixel Ripped Atari game we were playing. Before Cyblin fucker came in to infect it and make it his own. Seems like he wants to be the main star of all these games instead of Dot. Well... not if I have anything to say first. So my manager Chad comes in... yeah he sure looks like a Chad. He doesn't seem too thrilled about the concept art. Looks like Cyblin fucker has also impacted some real world objects too. As I play the game, Chad keeps pestering me about the art for Dot and Master. Over... and over... and over... and over... like... WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME???? I seem to hit a dead end in Cyblin Whipped. I am able to swap games... uh... maybe turn off the Atari? No? Alrighty then. Bentley's quest. And yes. Chad is still bitching at me about the fucking concept art. Eventually I find the art... it was right next to me... of course it was. I chuck it in his fucking face. Chad wants me to replace the game art for Cyblin Whipped back to Dot and Master. Should be easy... I... totally have experience in Atar-that's a lie I don't know how to make a fucking Atari game. So now this Michelle lady comes to visit me. She brings me some yummy donuts and fixes my controller too. I actually needed that. My fire button is broke to all hell. And now I can jump! Hell yeah! I get a brief call from this Nolan dude about a new character to chat about... and then he hangs up... alrighty good talking with you!

You know one thing I kind of don't like... I don't know maybe it's more of a pet peeve. But from your view of my view of the game, it looks like the display monitor is really fucking tiny and 3 football fields away from me. Whereas if you looked into my headset... it looks a lot closer than what it looks like for you. Thankfully it's not long in my Bentley adventure that I am able to get onto a portal and go full first person in this game now. So I meet up with Bentley bear... who oddly reminds me of Freddy Fazbear. He tells me I can't start this adventure until he gets his bag of gems. Oh and his keys too. I'm still able to get into the village area. And also fight off a bunch of chickens. That doesn't bode well with Chester. But hey, I got a broom out of it! Bentley introduces me to the target shooting mechanic. Shooting the target near me opens the gate to a new area. As soon as I figure that out of course. Anyways, I make it in... I don't know I want to say it's his house? Or maybe it's Joe's? Or maybe they're roommates? So I can use my melee items to open chests. Which is helpful given they contain food related items to help heal me up. Along the way, I also pick up a pan item. Because why the hell not? Back outside, I take down some dragons and robots before heading to the next section. I bust down some pixelated rocks and collect a golden cartridge before taking on a mini gauntlet of enemies. So I take care of them, somehow realize I circled the fuck around, take down beeg robot and... well I'll be honest this is where I get a little stuck. This next area has a lot of water. No you can't just walk across it. It's like an invisible wall essentially. This Evan dude blocks my path. I can't get past him. To be fair I should've listened to his pleas of me shooting down the massive dragon in the sky. But of course I am too dumb enough to realize I have to actually do that. I mean eventually I figure out I have to do that. But holy shit that took an embarrassingly long time to do so. That causes Evan to move and I can proceed onward. There was a little frogger like section. I thought I could hop on the logs. However it didn't look like I could. So I proceeded the other way instead. From there, I get back into the real world as Bug. Despite the platform now being lowered, I don't really understand where I am going from here.

Suddenly my screen starts to distort and it seems like the signal from the Atari to the monitor is getting weaker. All that while Michelle comes back to visit me. She needs me to fix a buggy cartridge for her. While she explains that, I realize I can give my monitor a good ol' punching to clear up the picture. When in doubt, just punch your shit. So the cartridge I am given is a classic copy of Centipede. Oh but not just any ordinary copy no no no. This is a special modified version. In this version, it is so buggy that the bugs literally fly out of the screen and into the real world. And I must take them down. Either with my hands or little paper balls. I think at first I made it harder than I needed it to be. Letting more bugs fly out than I should've. Not like it was easy to begin with. Having to also avoid the bugs on screen. Granted I could press buttons to stun the buggy worm. But those bugs get squashed and Michelle upgrades my controller again. Dual buttons eh? I like it! I just end up spending the rest of the stream bumbling in Bentley's quest. I honestly had no idea what I was doing. And honestly I was getting such a headache from all the VR action, I decided to call it a night. I'm sure I'll figure out where I'm going...

Or not... it is an Atari game after all. You've seen confusing to all hell they make you.