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My Canabalt Dream, Bettered.

So I had this dream, and the dream was to do Canabalt fan fiction. I love making back-stories for games. I did it in my head playing arcade games as a kid, and the less story the game has, and the more I can do in my head, the more I like it. I even made a backstory for KLAX when Mike Mika and Bob Baffy and I did a version for GameBoy Color (you can find a code here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/gbc/575337-klax/cheats)

So anyway, I wanted to do some Canabalt fan fiction. And I was talking about it and someone was like “too late dude, someone already did and it’s awesome” and I was like “…” and then they sent me this URL.

Yeah, this is tons better than what I would have done. The second person voice and flashback narrative reminds me A TON of the intro to A Mind Forever Voyaging, which just makes me happy and nostalgic. As far as I’m concerned, this is Canabalt Canon now.

http://elroyhead.tumblr.com/post/408960075/canabalt-the-junior-novelization

This renders my entire contribution to Canabalt lore this joke screen shot of Canabalt 2: