Current Events > Neon remembers old flash games >_>: Motherload

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Motherload is a resource collection game where you're a miner on Mars employed by a man named Mr. Natas. Your goal is to dig deep and collect various resources to sell for him


You're limited by how far you can go by your fuel tank, which you need to return to the surface to refill. There are various other obstacles as well like rocks that need to be blown up, harder to drill through soil as you go deeper, magma pockets, explosive gas, and earthquakes. You can use the minerals you sell to upgrade your equipment or buy various tools like dynamite or teleporters.



Basically, the loop of the game is to grab minerals, upgrade your shit so you can dig deeper and grab even more valuable minerals so you can upgrade your shit even more and dig EVEN deeper for EVEN MORE valuable minerals >_>, etc. etc.





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Now, it seems pretty basic and boring and yes, for 90% of it, it is >_> But strange stuff starts happening as you go deeper



You start getting weird messages, various other miners get killed by an unknown creature, and Mr. Natas becomes VERY insistant that you don't go past a certain depth

So obviously you go as deep as you can! >_> And you find a weird layer that opens up to a cavern.



You go in and it turns out that Mr. Natas was actually Satan all along and he was the one making those weird messages appear! His name was backwards! How did we not even notice that!?!?



So then the gameplay takes a complete 180 and has you fighting Satan as a 2-part boss fight lol



You use plastic explosive items to do damage and eventually defeat him. After which you sell various parts of his body for mad cash



....well most people certainly didn't expect that at the end of it lol. But that's kind of what made it memorable >_>

At this point, you start new game+ where minerals are worth less and the boss does more damage.

So would I recommend it? Yeah, it's definitely unique and digging for minerals can be oddly relaxing at times once your fuel tank is big enough to stay underground for a decent period of time. The whole game takes probably about ~2 hours to beat.

If you want to play it yourself, here's some cheats:
Go to options during gameplay and type these out:
$100k - blingbling
Max upgrades and 99 of every item - ntouchable

Beware that you can't save if you cheat though >_>

Q&A

Neon "Titty Meister" Octopus, this seems like a cool game, but I want to play it on a REAL console! Not some dinky flash player on a weird website!

You're in luck! They released a sequel to it on PS4 and Steam

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/734973-super-motherload

I don't know much about it, but it's basically the same gameplay and has a boss you have to fight at the end >_>

So what are your thoughts on it, CE? >_> You ever play this game?

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Its like an m night shamalan movie! :O
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Motherload was pretty good, but Xgen Studios was most famous for Stick RPG. They had a project called Cinder Fall/Cinderfall? that looked like it was gonna be great, but it just fell through and never came to fruition. At least Stick RPG 2 eventually came out >_>

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I never played Stick RPG in my youth. I tried it out for 5 minutes last year and was kind of bored of it >_> Am I missing something?

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bump >_>

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sauceje posted...

Motherload was pretty good, but Xgen Studios was most famous for Stick RPG. They had a project called Cinder Fall/Cinderfall? that looked like it was gonna be great, but it just fell through and never came to fruition. At least Stick RPG 2 eventually came out >_>

Stick rpg sounded so familiar. Looked it up and as soon as I saw that top down view I was flooded with nostalgia

NeonOctopus posted...

I never played Stick RPG in my youth. I tried it out for 5 minutes last year and was kind of bored of it >_> Am I missing something?

It's a pretty typical time management game, and it's pretty rough at the start, so if that isn't your kinda game it's not unusual you'd get bored tbh

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Anyone ever played Super Motherload? >_>

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care moar

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plz respond

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Super Motherload was not good, at all, sadly.

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That sucks

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NeonOctopus posted...

That sucks

Fortunately, there's a silver lining in that if you buy Super Motherload on Steam, it includes Motherload: Goldium Edition within the game for free, which is a slightly enhanced/updated version of the original game.

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What's in the Gold version compared to the regular flash version?

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NeonOctopus posted...

What's in the Gold version compared to the regular flash version?

I don't remember, to be honest.

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How come my flash topic about an anime titty hentai game gets like 60+ posts >_> but a topic for a game about mineral mining only gets 16 posts? lol

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Gonna do The Classroom 1-3 next >_>

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Motherload was fun. The Classroom games were fucking awesome tho I loved those. Also really liked Stick RPG and that one multiplayer game where you played as a little devil guy that shot harpoons in the air at bubbles. I forgot what the name of that one was.
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NeonOctopus posted...

Gonna do The Classroom 1-3 next >_>

Wait was that the one where you were some cartoon kids murdering other cartoon kids and one of them was a psychic who was floating all over the place and flinging shit at you or maybe? I kind of remember this?

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Webbernet posted...

Wait was that the one where you were some cartoon kids murdering other cartoon kids and one of them was a psychic who was floating all over the place and flinging shit at you or maybe? I kind of remember this?

Webbernet posted...

Wait was that the one where you were some cartoon kids murdering other cartoon kids and one of them was a psychic who was floating all over the place and flinging shit at you or maybe? I kind of remember this?

Uhhhhhh, no lol. Not even close >_>

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Webbernet posted...

Wait was that the one where you were some cartoon kids murdering other cartoon kids and one of them was a psychic who was floating all over the place and flinging shit at you or maybe? I kind of remember this?

That's Pico's School

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Motherload was freakin' awesome. Loved that game.

I got up in the ranks in Stick RPG, but eventually just stopped playing.

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Last bump before the next one >_>

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Lives the game, Im so happy your reminded me of it