Chiquita Bombs+Spikeballs

In case any of the people reading this are stalking me on Facebook, you should direct your attention to my profile where my co-author (He's MY co-author, I am not his) called me a bitch for my tardy posting. Let the record show that even though this blog's messed up clock says that I haven't posted in a day, it was in fact Cameron Lownie who neglected to post for a full 24 hours. That being said lets talk about something else I beat Cam at: Liero.

I'm not entirely sure how many people outside of Doherty Middle School have played the game Liero (Or its endless variations e.g. LieroV, Backstreet Boys Liero, Pogs Liero) but I figured it deserves a mention. Liero is a 2-D video game played on a PC in which two to four worms are pitted against each other in a fight to the death. Naturally each player controls a worm as well as its arsenal of weapons. Weapons such as Gatling guns, ridiculously overpowered rifles, shotguns, and bouncy mines are among the choices, with more insane weapons added to later versions. 

In the original version my strategy consisted of a deadly cocktail of chiquita bombs (exploding banana bunches) and spikeballs (spike balls), as well as a subtle mastery of the ninja rope (used by pressing the jump button and change weapon button at the same time), which allows a player to grapple about the level . Many a Liero player's last vision before respawning was my worm descending on a ninja rope spewing spikeballs and oddly cheerful yellow bombs.

Adding to the mystique of this wonderful game is the fact that I could never get it to work on my home computer. Even though us middle schoolers had to figure out complicated ways around the proxy server for the computers in the Doherty library, (I believe that me and my friends were cause for 90% of our school's system crashes) Liero always worked. Never being able to play it outside of middle school ensured that my time spent brutally maiming other players' worms would always remain an untainted and happy childhood memory.