**7** - _Ys_ publisher, often **8** - Glaring artifact, always optical and sometimes optional **10** - _Wave Racer_ and later _Animal Crosser_ **11** - _Space Harrier_ + Green Hairier = PC88er ***Answer****=****"Atlantia"** **12** - Wander's quarry **13** - Your guy, when you need turnips ASAP **15** - Bossa Nova-soundtracked digital marketplace **17** - Prolific solo developer of wrestling, prison, pop music, and Jesus Christ sims **20** - With Geddy Lee, Jaco Pastorius, and Mega Man **22** - Single-wheeled racer, in PAL terms **25** - _Lufia II_'s Canine class, suited for combat **26** - Popular rendering API, now Vulkanized **27** - Engine for hits by Cactus, Fox, and others **28** - Rygar's rhyming foe, and a faline hybrid
**Down**
**1** - Scouser Lemmings-publishers **2** - Videogames are prohibited from depicting this org's logo, per Geneva Convention **3** - "Julia Heartilly" in the fiction, with Faye Wong **4** - "Iso"-metric NES Warrior, differently-titled **5** - Dream Traveler of ambiguous genus **6** - _KOTOR II_'s gray morals exemplar **9** - Lady Love's surname, I think. We can ask to be sure **14** - Sometimes settled-for, in _Madden_ **16** - Black Isle survivors and 6 down's creators **18** - Zebes locale or cruel name for the acne-scarred **19** - Early Konami "maze game." Also, A Guy Called Gerald, you could say **21** - Studio that took Duke 3D, and later went "3D" themselves **23** - Mountain namesake, later notebook-gouger **24** - Level or stage in _LSD_ terms
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I‘m 4 prompts away from solving this and I’m googling like my life depended on it. There's some tough ones in here!!
Well I'm throwing up my hands here but I'd definitely do another one of these! Here's where I got to. Not sure about 3 down, I stole that from @"Mnemogenic"#p121477's screenshot above lol
this rules!!! i‘m guessing you’re from the uk, yeso? both in that some of the cluing angles seem a little uk-y (guy called gerald and scouser jumped out at me) but also this kinda crisscross style is what i think is called a light puzzle there? as opposed to the kind of puzzle we'd call a cryptic in the usa
my day job is editing and making crosswords (in the usa), and to do a us-style all-over interlock puzzle with every answer being some kind of interesting video game would be like... close to impossible, so i'm super impressed by this!
Update: I got one more (4 down) because I had some other stuff wrong previously and the thing I had guessed before was actually right, so I'm gonna try to finish
@“phylaxis”#p121577 I‘m from Chicago. I just like A Guy Called Gerald (who doesnt?) and I googled “non racist term for people from Liverpool.” And yeah I’m finding it impossible to to make an american-style puzzle with a video game only dictionary, at least with the word count I have now. It just so happens the UK format works fine though, so that's why I went with it
Okay, solved! I had to steal the last one from @“Samograj”#p121535 because it‘s not actually correct! I’ll dm yeso about it, it should probably be a “free square” if such a thing exists because you wouldn't sort it out without some mental gymnastics, and I wonder if samograj brute forced it or mistyped to get the right answer??
