Keen 5 secret level

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I found out about the secret levels LONG after ever playing the games, in some video I was watching about easter eggs and secrets in retro video games. Blew my mind at the timee haha!
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I remember getting the secret level crash years ago. I tried to figure out some way to stop it from crashing, and from the error "Goplat moved to a bad spot" I inferred that the lil Scottish guys were called Goplats (since that was the only thing I could see that was moving on the screen, I guess) so that's what I called them for quite a while.

My theory was that if I shot the "Goplat" before it reached some ambiguous harmful point in the middle of the starting area it would prevent the error. I think sometimes the game didn't crash when I tried this, leading me to believe that my theory was correct, although accuracy of preventing collision with the forsaken spot was not reliable, I'd assume. Nowadays I suppose that it was all only a coincidence and the real deciding factor was the difficulty mode I happened to choose, though at the time it only reinforced the misconception regarding the name of the moustached teddy bears. I remember when I started reading KeenWiki et cetera I was confused why the platforms were commonly referred to as Goplats when that was clearly the name of the aliens.



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Haha! Thanks for the welcome, I'd love some tea!
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No problem! Just ask the nearest Little Ampton, I think they just made a fresh batch in the Brownian Motion Inducer.
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I think for a while, I also thought the Koraths were called Goplats too, although that might've more been because that's what a lot of other people call those aliens. What made things more confusing, I believe, was that in Battle of the Brains, a type of Goplat is turned into a Krodacian, which acts just like a Korath except harmful.

Also, welcome to PCKF, alexis92! As proYorp, the Little Amptons have made some nice tea! They'll also play very good music for you!
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proYorp wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 5:02 No problem! Just ask the nearest Little Ampton, I think they just made a fresh batch in the Brownian Motion Inducer.
I'll do just that! :lol
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