TROGDOR!

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Trogdor!

"The beefy armed dragon has had it up to here with those pesky peasants. Achieve burnination and watch the countryside go up in flames." —Videlectrix

This game is based on the character of Trogdor from the Strong Bad Email dragon. You follow Trogdor, squishing peasants and burninating cottages, all while avoiding knights and archers.

Page Title: TROGDOR!!!

Instructions

Use the arrow keys to control Trogdor.
Stomp 10 peasants to achieve burnination.
Burn all cottages to advance a level.
Avoid knights and archers!
Press SPACE to pause.
click anywhere to START
Programmed by Jonathan Howe
Designed by Mike and Matt

Easter Eggs

If you score more than 2,000 points and die, Jonathan Howe's name is shown

• Click and hold the "G" in the TROGDOR title to see some game hints.
  • Don't let the peasants return to their cottages.
  • Once you're burninating, you're invincible.
  • Burninated peasants set their cottages on fire.
  • Get an extra man every 300 points.
  • What's a treasure hut?!?!
  • Secret Code?!?!
• On the hints screen, you can use the Konami Code (up up down down left right left right B A, and then click the word "START"). This will start you off with 30 lives.
• During the game you can hit the "k" key to kick the game. This doesn't seem to give you any advantage, but it does cause the machine to repeat the word "TROGDOR!" (A reference to Arcade Game.)
• Treasure Huts! You can enter certain huts and pick-up gold! To get to it you must burninate certain huts that block them, and then let the burnination shut off, otherwise you will burn the treasure hut as well. On level 7, it's the leftmost hut. Burninate the 4 huts in the way. On level 11, it's the lower right hut. Burninate the huts around it. On level 16, it's the upper left hut. Burninate the three huts in the way. It appears that you can only enter one hut per game.

Fun Facts

• There are a number of funny interludes after the following levels, similar to the ones between some levels of Ms. Pac Man and other games:
  • Level 4 — "stompin' good"

{A lone peasant is on the left side of the screen. Trogdor approaches from the right with two knights in hot pursuit. Trogdor stomps the peasant and then turns to burninate the knights as they retreat.}

• Level 8 — "fry 'em up Dan"

{Trogdor is in the middle of the screen. Four peasants approach one by one from the left, are burninated and exit at the bottom of the screen.}

• Level 12 — "parade of trogdors"

{Nine Trogdors parade from right to left across the screen.}

• Level 16 — "dancin' time"

{Trogdor breaks it down surrounded by ten burninated peasants and two knights}

• Level 20 — "flex it, troggie"

{Trogdor flexes his beefy arm.}

• Level 24 — "peasant dominoes"

{Seven peasants are in a line. Trogdor burninates the peasant on the right. The peasant to the left of the burninated peasant catches fire as the first peasant falls over. This effect dominoes down the line of peasants until they all fall over. Trogdor hops up and down with glee.}

• Level 30 — "trogdor incognito"

{Two peasants approach each other from opposite sides of the screen and stop in the middle. The peasant on the left burninates the peasant on the right. The peasant on the right runs off. The peasant on the left hops up and down.}

• Level 34 — "go trogdor # 2!"

{Seven peasants are hopping up and down as two Trogdors race across the screen from left to right. Trogdor number two wins the race.}

• Level 38 — "forbidden peasant love"

{Two peasants enter the screen from the right with a heart between them. As they reach the middle of the screen, a blue knight runs on screen and takes the peasant on the left away. The heart disappears as the peasant that was on the right is left alone.}

• Level 42 — "2 cottages"

{Two cottages appear.}

• Level 46 — "a funny joke"

{A knight is minding his own business on the left side of the screen. Out of nowhere, an archer appears on the right side of the screen and begins to shoot five arrows off of the knight's helmet. The archer leaves and the knight turns to face the spot where he was to find no one is there.}

• Level 50 — "smote that kerrek!"

{Trogdor is on screen with The Kerrek. The Kerrek bounces up and down a few times before Trogdor burninates him.}

Strong Bad: Mmmm! Roast Kerrek!

• Level 100 — {A tiny arcade game Strong Bad enters the screen from the right.}

STRONG BAD: What the? What am I doing in this game?

{Arcade Strong Bad moves his arms up and down as the text "congratulations. you got good score" appears}

GAME: Congratulations. You got good score.

STRONG BAD: It sounds so... realistic.

{roll credits}

cast:

{Trogdor appears}

trogdor

{A peasant appears}

perez

{A slightly different peasant appears}

hackworth

{An on-fire peasant appears}

'the steve'

{A blue knight appears}

the blue knight

{A more different blue knight appears}

the red knight

{Two archers appear, joined at their torso}

the siamese archers

{The Kerrek appears, and is burninated. His ashes form a roast The Kerrek, complete with apple in mouth.}

and Wordly Wise as The Kerrek

{Trogdor and Arcade Strong Bad appear at an angle}

keep playing!

{The game advances to the high score screen}

• Strong Bad will say things while you play. Here's a list:
  • "Aw, this is the worst game I've ever played!"
  • "Ohh.. this is the best game I've ever played."
  • "Stupid, freakin' knights."
  • "Squished you, peasanty."
  • "I squish you"
  • "Oh, yes! And the Trogdor comes in the niiight!"
  • "Oh, Trogdor! I pine for you."
  • "A Squisha Squisha"
  • "The tables have turned!" (when you get burninate power)
  • "Ugh, stupid arch-deluxe."
  • "Ugh, nothing more humiliating then getting killed by the archer...arch deluxe...show you next time!"
  • "Deuce!"
  • "What the? What am I doing in this game?!"
  • "Mmmmm, roast Kerrek!"
  • {laughing} He's on fire! Look at 'em burning!"
  • "Beat that score, Strong Sad!" STRONG SAD: I don't even want to play this game.

• The "Arch-Deluxe" is a reference to an old McDonald's Burger called the Arch Deluxe.
• "Oh, Trogdor! I pine for you." is a reference to trevor the vampire.
• "Fry 'em up Dan" is a reference to Shel Silverstein's poem "Ladies First".
• Pausing sometimes causes a purple ball to become visible on the screen.
• Lev. 27 is well nigh impossible. The peasant-paths are only accessible for 2 of the 6 cottages, so for every peasant you squish there are 2 left to wander back into their cottages (diminishing your burninator meter). Meanwhile, the cottages themselves wall you in to a very small area, making you a sitting duck for archers and knights.
  • UPDATE: As of February 12, 2005, level 27 has been changed so it is much simpler to beat. The cottages are set up so you can move around more and squish more peasants.
• This game is supposed to be a parody of the numerous HORRIBLY made arcade and atari games made in the wake of the success of Atari, when many companies made quick bad games to cash in on the video game craze in the early 80's that crashed when the Atari 2600 died (The video game industry was reborn circa 1985 when the NES was released).
• Jonathan Howe's name being an easter egg is actually a reference to Adventure for the Atari 2600. When it was made Atari intentionally kept game designers from achieving celebrity status. In rebellion to this, Warren Robinett hid his name inside what is commonly regarded as the first easter egg. It was only accessible by picking up an invisible object, carrying it through a dragon infested maze, and touching it to a blank wall. Doing this revealed a room with Warren's name plastered all over in rainbow colors.
• Wordly Wise is a series of textbooks desiged to build student's vocabulary. What this has to do with the Kerrek is unknown.
• When you die the replay button says "Challenge again!". This is a reference to the good ending of Ghosts and Goblins which says the same thing.
• The Easter Egg by clicking the "G" in TROGDOR may be a reference to the Easter Egg by clicking the "G" Strong Mad made in dragon
• Using a seek bar suggests that this game was originally intended to have a high-score board.

• The death scene is a possible reference to Teen Girl Squad.

Glitches

• If you pause the game (using the space bar) when the archer is out pulling his bow, he will get stuck there until the end of the level, even if you die on that level.
  • UPDATE: As of February 12, 2005, this glitch has been fixed, so archers will disappear after unpausing the game and reappear as normal.
• If you die as soon as you achieve burnination status, you will come back to life with burnination, assuming you have any mans left.
• When you pause the game at any time, you'll see a black dot close to the center of the screen
• When you pause the game while a cottage is burninating, it will continue to burninate until it is destroyed.
• Sometimes you will get "SWORDED" just because you are near the knight, not by necessarily making contact with him.

External Links

• Play the Game.
• Play the Game (flash file).