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Moai in Video Games
- cableshaft 3y agoThat's a pretty neat project. It is a fairly common addition to video games. Halfway tempted to add one to one of my upcoming games just to get added to this list :P
- novagameco 3y agoFor a discussion of the Moai and what happened to them and their creators, I recommend the book "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
- yreg 3y agoIn shorter form, I recommend the 6th episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast[0]. I've found the topic super interesting. Both the podcast and the book shared by parent argue against the previous Mulloy/Jared Diamond theory of ecological suicide by building more and more statues. [0] Easter Island - Where Giants Walked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j08gxUcBgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j08gxUcBgc
- simonebrunozzi 3y agoOh, interesting. In a nutshell, what's the argument, compared to the "old" one by Diamond?
- yreg 3y agoThe argument is that there is no evidence of collapse before the arrival of Europeans. There is also no/very little evidence of violence and warfare and no evidence of cannibalism. Something happened in the decades following the first contact in 1722. Arguably the local population might have faced high mortality rates due to European diseases. They seem to have toppled the statues in anger toward their gods for failing to protect the people.
- dharbin 3y agoI don't think I even knew what those "Easter Island" statues were called until I started playing Gradius games.
- crazydoggers 3y agoThose Moai were the worst.. luckily there was up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A
- mayormcmatt 3y agoThank you: this is exactly the game I was looking for in the list, but forgot the name. It, too, was my first introduction to Moai as a kid.
- bitwize 3y agoDoo-aw! Doo-aw! Doo-aw! Dwa! Dwa! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YImQl5jyUW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YImQl5jyUW4
- dfxm12 3y agoI can hear this comment :)
- dfxm12 3y agoWhat is Konami's obsession with Moai anyway?
- alok99 3y agoThe FAQ states: > Why so many from Konami? > That’s because of Yoshinori “Moai” Sasaki. (ref) https://moai.games/faq/ https://moai.games/faq/
- debugloop 3y agoLove that they include GeoGuessr on their list :)
- mgd 3y agoI love the dedication. Where else can you find obscure things like this but HN
- automatoney 3y agoPretty interesting to have a list, but I was kind of hoping there'd be more information. The FAQ is a good start, and there's the link to wikipedia, but I was hoping for more insight than "Moai are cool. And video games are cool." More information that moves the site from a plain dataset to a more complex discussion. Just as an example, I was wondering what present day Rapa Nui people think of depictions of moai. Are there kinds of depictions that they feel represent/misrepresent their culture?
- yreg 3y ago> but I was hoping for more insight than "Moai are cool. And video games are cool." The project is likely "just" a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moai-emoji https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moai-emoji
- duxup 3y agoThe Moai are cool. The history of Easter Island ... really depressing.
- guyomes 3y agoNot sure if that counts, there is also the lua game engine Moai [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai_(software)
- nineteen999 3y agoHad to search for Space Harrier and was glad to find it in there. Well done!
- redbell 3y agoNostalgic! This triggers some strong haptic feedback in my heart about one of the best games I've played in my childhood (in addition to Super Mario, Double Dragon, and Metal Slug). It was a NES game called Moai Kun, and it is being featured on the site under: https://moai.games/moai-kun/ https://moai.games/moai-kun/ I never made it to the end, so when I grew up, I looked in YT to check if anybody does, and of course, if the Tetris was beaten by a teenager (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841080), why not Moai Kun?! A full gameplay can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJiIfSniWIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJiIfSniWIU Anyone here had the chance to play this game?
- computershit 3y agoThey left out Civ.
- kromem 3y agoI wish there was something like this for 4th wall breaking lore in games. I know I've encountered it many, many times, but it's hard to remember where exactly. I just recently stumbled across screenshots of the ranting street preacher talking about how people were in a video game being controlled by button presses in Secret of Evermore, but a resource like this site for the sheer number of instances of things like that would have been awesome.