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Release trailer of Skunny in DOStalgia
A brief history about the game
Skunny in DOStalgia is a fan-made spoofgame loosely based on the Skunny series, published and released by Copysoft in the 90s.
I made this in the Unity3D engine from scratch, as a community effort of the DOS-gaming community around the Youtuber Dosgamert after this stream:
Development started on April the 15th 2019 and was finished on June, the 24th of 2019.
The game was released on July the 22th in 2019, during this live stream:
Speedrun Update 2021
On April the 17th 2021, I released an update of the game, containing a new speedrun option:
Leaderboard on Speedrun.com
New speedrun features
- Build-in, automated and precise Stopwatch
- Cheats and Options disabled
- ESC brings you directly back to the main menu to start a new Run
- No annoying music at the start of the game
Gameplay
The game is mostly a simple platformer with one autoscrolling part at the end.
Use the Arrow-keys to go left and right, Space to jump and any Alt-key for your weapons.
Collect (drink) beers to get more abilities and to get through the level.
Short list of references in the game
- Skunny games (obviously)
- Biing! – the Intro
- Apogee and ID games – all over the place
- Wolfenstein 3D – Story music
- Indiana Jones – from the fate of Atlantis – taunting you as you enter the level
- Asterix movies – Part 2 of the level
- Commander Keen – all over the place
- Duke Nukem – Pause Menu , 5th floor, Duke1 and 2 stuff
- Biomenace – Enemies, Secret Room, Snake (Apocalypse Now!)
- Monkey Island – Guybrush in the Jail
- Day of the Tentacle – Purple in the Jail
- Jazz Jack Rabbit – Running away to the forrest
- Commando C64 – Boss 2 music
- Giana Sisters C64 – Part 3 music
Additonal Downloads
This pack contains all the Skunny shareware games including a preconfigured version of Dosbox. Unzip and start “START SKUNNY.BAT”