An Aside...

Before I set about ripping up Offshore Rig, I just wanted to make a short post thanking everybody for the lovely comments they’ve made about this blog, on here as well as on Twitter and Facebook. It gives me great pleasure to know that you’re enjoying it, and this fact alone is giving me the incentive to play (and mock) even the most tedious levels (*cough*Atlantean Stronghold*cough*).

I would also like to mention that I’ve set up a Facebook page for Perusing Pixels (click here). For now, I’m going to use it in much the same way as my Twitter account (@PerusingPixels), i.e. to keep everyone updated when I post a new level, but it the future, who knows? It may become a hotbed of affectionate jibes and pictures of Lara doing funny things.

Okay, it’s time to get back to the “tombs” of Tomb Raider II. See you on the next level!

Memorabilia

I was on the wayback machine yesterday, searching the archives for the fan letter I wrote to Lara Croft’s official site some eleven years ago. I didn’t manage to find it, but I did come across a 1996 archive of tombraider.com, complete with a banner ad:

Nice to see they were pushing the woman-character selling point even then, although Lara doesn’t look particularly attractive in this banner; actually, she looks kind of brain-dead.
I also harvested the Lara forum smilies from tombraiders.com (the old sister website of Stella’s tombraiders.net) which now ceases to exist. I posted on the forums as Starfish, and, being 13, I spent most of my time fangirling Larson, who was my first *cough* video game charcter *cough* crush.
Anyway, here they are:

           

          

I will be completing the Lost Valley. I’ve attempted several times, but have been thwarted by corrupt save files which keep booting me out of the game. Finding the Lara smiles has inspired me to persevere, however. Lara Croft wouldn’t give up so easily.