Hours upon hours of StarCraft 2 have undoubtedly been clocked since it officially dropped last week, and within those hours of gameplay, gamers have been discovering Easter eggs and nods to other Blizzard creations – old and new.
The most recent discovery is actually a mini-game that runs within the engine. Within the cantina of Jim Raynor’s ship, the Hyperion, you will find an old arcade machine. Throw in a few coins and you’ll launch the mini-game.
The mini-game pays homage to one of Blizzard’s original franchises, The Lost Vikings. The title was a side-scrolling puzzle/platformer for SNES, where you control a group of Vikings through the puzzle levels. However, tribute in StarCraft 2 was conformed to fit the theme of the long awaited real-time strategy title.
In the mini-game you control a Terran Viking craft in top-down fashion and fight your way through groups of Zerg and Protoss ships that fly in various patterns. Throughout the game you will come across various power-ups and bonuses as you fight your way towards new enemies and bosses.
Check out the video below to see the mini-game in action:
I have to say, this looks great for a mini-game squeezed into an already packed and polished release. The graphics and fluidness rivals many of the titles that are on Steam, XBLA, iPhone, etc. and even seems like it could be a separate casual release on it’s own.
StarCraft 2 is available now for PC and Mac, and has been getting some positive reviews.
Have you stumbled across The Lost Viking mini-game yet?
Source: Joystiq
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This looks about as awesome as when PGR had Geometry Wars as a mini-game.
The mini game was very very interesting, and even more fun…
But i wonder to myself if achieving victory, even in singular levels perhaps, it might unlock upgrades or even credits?
I read about a minigame calle Lost Vikings inside the sc2 game and I just had to know more. After a quick search I ended up here.
After watching the video I thought it looked like real fun.
I was a little sad thought. For me, The Lost Vikings isn’t that kind of game at all. For me The Lost Vikings is an old Amiga game where you play three different Vikings thats been abducted by aliens and had to escape.
It’s more of a puzzle where you have to jump between the three different vikings and use their abilities to get to the next level. (On kan run and jump, one can shoot arrows with a bow and one have a shield that can protect or hangglide… etc.
Search on “The Lost Vikings” and you’ll find it
Thanks for putting up the vid thought. It does look great.
@Sketful; Blizzard made The Lost Vikings in their early days, it’s a twist/homage.
Yeah, I figured that one out
But still… If it would have been great if it was the original I thought it was