{"id":1530,"date":"2009-10-28T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T01:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2020-02-06T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T02:57:07","slug":"blast-from-the-lucasarts-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/blast-from-the-lucasarts-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the LucasArts past"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking for a specific YouTube video<\/a> for a friend of mine<\/a> today and wound up recommending several to him. All of the videos are from the computer game Star Wars: Rebel Assault II, a rather entertaining computer game from the ’90s: one of the early-generation CD-ROM games.<\/p>\n

In the game there was a cheat that enabled “theater mode”, a thinly-veiled Mystery Science Theater version of the game’s cinematics. Thanks to the magicks of YouTube, they have been preserved for your viewing pleasure<\/a>. Here is the other easter egg<\/a> I found while looking for the rest of the videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking for a specific YouTube video for a friend of mine today and wound up recommending several to him. All of the videos are from the computer game Star Wars: Rebel Assault II, a rather entertaining computer game from the ’90s: one of the early-generation CD-ROM games. 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