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	Re: 1993 Rsnail?!
	Posted By: Godot	Date: 4/27/12 5:57 a.m.
	In Response To: 1993 Rsnail?! *LINK* (PerseusSpartacus) : You're probably going "What are you talking about?" at this point. : Indeed, it makes no sense even once you know what it is. : If you look at Hopper's Annotated Map of Ok, Who Else Wants Some? , you'll : see some odd text at both the top and bottom of the map. The top text : looks like "1993", and the bottom text looks like : "RSNAIL". Thus, "1993 RSNAIL" or "RSNAIL : 1993". Yeah, doesn't make a whole lotta sense does it? : Now, me being a member of Club Penguin (an MMORPG for kids), I know that : Rsnail is an abbreviation of RocketSnail, the game company that I think : originally made Club Penguin. Oddly, RocketSnail was created in 1999, long : after PiD was made. 1993 rsnail Another of those PID mysteries. Is it a name? Is it an acronym? Is it an anagram? Whatever it is, Jason went to some trouble to put those letters and numbers on the final level. Unlike the capital letters CARNAGE in the Demo v2.0 it doesn't look like they were ever intended to be mapped. So you would have needed a map editor to read them (like the map writing in Marathon). But it would be seven years before a PID map editor (or reader) would be created. By then very few would have been bothered to look for it never mind ask about it. So 1993 rsnail has joined the ranks of the other great unknowns... like DCROMLEY. Cheers Hamish

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	1993 Rsnail?! *LINK*	PerseusSpartacus	4/26/12 7:02 p.m.
	Re: 1993 Rsnail?!	Godot	4/27/12 5:57 a.m.
	Re: 1993 Rsnail?!	PerseusSpartacus	4/27/12 8:17 a.m.
	Re: 1993 Rsnail?! *LINK*	Godot	4/30/12 9:03 a.m.

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