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| - In 2011 the character starred in an anime OVA titled "Spelunker Sensei". The anime is a comedy that shows the life of Mr. Spelunker as a high school teacher. He often die easily when it is hit by weak things that would not kill a normal person, always be resurrecting frequently.
- Classic video game created by Tim Martin in the early 1980s. Spelunker is about, as you'd expect, a guy who explores a large cave and looks for treasure. He has dynamite to help him blow up large rocks, flares to ward off bats, and a limited air supply. Adding a bit of fantasy to the game is the frequent appearance of ghosts, which need to be warded off with an air blaster. A pretty simple game. Except for one thing: its sadistic level of difficulty. The spelunker himself can die very easily from a wide variety of things, including some you wouldn't expect:
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| - In 2011 the character starred in an anime OVA titled "Spelunker Sensei". The anime is a comedy that shows the life of Mr. Spelunker as a high school teacher. He often die easily when it is hit by weak things that would not kill a normal person, always be resurrecting frequently.
- Classic video game created by Tim Martin in the early 1980s. Spelunker is about, as you'd expect, a guy who explores a large cave and looks for treasure. He has dynamite to help him blow up large rocks, flares to ward off bats, and a limited air supply. Adding a bit of fantasy to the game is the frequent appearance of ghosts, which need to be warded off with an air blaster. A pretty simple game. Except for one thing: its sadistic level of difficulty. The spelunker himself can die very easily from a wide variety of things, including some you wouldn't expect:
* His own dynamite, of which the blast radius isn't actually visible (the entire screen flashes white when it goes off)
* Any enemy
* Bat droppings
* Falling in a small pit that's less than one half the already small safe fall distance
* His own flare landing on top of him on the way down
* Most infamously of all, falling less than his own height! (on NES version. The height of the player character was increased, while the vertical distances traveled were decreased.)
* And what's worse, when you're on a rope or a ladder, if you push left or right, you can actually slide off and end up dying in midair before you had a chance to jump off! The computer originals, mercifully, allowed jumping off of ladders and ropes safely by holding jump and tapping the stick, a luxury not allowed on the NES version. That one involving falling is particularly nasty, due to the game's play mechanics. The spelunker can only jump a short distance, can't change his direction in midair, and falls straight down instead of slightly forward when walking off an edge. Your jumps must be very precise, or you will die from the fall - in midair, no less. The game was widely forgotten in America, where it was created, but became a Cult Classic in Japan due to its hilariously unforgiving difficulty and ludicrous number of ways to die. The game ended up being returned to used video game stores in high numbers when players got frustrated with it, but later developed a following among fans of Nintendo Hard games. As a result, there have been several Japanese fangames, and even a remake for Playstation Network in the form of Spelunker HD, which adds multiplayer play and cartoony animations mocking the deaths, but also adds a lot of lives and a save feature to soften the blow. The game actually inspired a Japanese expression, "constitution of a spelunker", which means someone who gets hurt badly from minor injuries.
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