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Holy. Crap. That is mind-boggling. I remember back in 2006 I thought I had taken things too far when I wasted many, many hours of my life figuring out the Line Rider file format: https://www.mrspeaker.net/2006/11/15/line-rider-file-format/

But this is about 10 levels beyond that! Only now do I see I didn't take things far enough by half - this is beautiful and... complete. Just amazing!




I remember the day Line Rider actually came out. I remember seeing it on Digg, and this was before Youtube but people were theorizing if a loopty loop would be possible (oh simpler line rider times!). I remember hacking something together into a (flash) video back then. I think I may still have it laying around somewhere.

EDIT: Yep, here it is, "Date Created: 9/23/2006" which is the day Line Rider came out according to wikipedia.

And https://ruffle.rs/demo/ can actually play it! Wow!

EDIT2: Here's self hosted thanks to Ruffle!

https://ehsankia.com/linerider/


Youtube existed back then and for me line rider was a phenomenon that increased my use of it, one of my first liked videos was line rider jumps the shark, from 25sep2006. I remember watching many line rider videos back then.


Seems like you're right. Though Google acquired it around November 2006 which is when it really started to rise.


One of the old masters... TechDawg's Make Believe https://youtu.be/fTnT66LGrdY from March '07.


You are a mad lad. That was impressive work. And now I have experienced your blog. Thank you.




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