History VideoGame / Xargon

The player assumes the role of AdventurerArchaeologist [[AwesomeMcCoolName Malvineous Havershim]]. While studying ancient ruins in Madagascar belonging to an [[{{Precursors}} unknown ancient culture]] known only as the Blue Builders, Havershim falls prey to a mysterious gas and wakes up later to find himself TrappedInAnotherWorld.

** [[InASingleBound Shoes that let you jump higher]] (they can be ''stacked'' for [[UpToEleven insanely high jumps]])

* {{Diary}}: In between levels, on the world map, you come across little books that when touched present you with an entry from Malvineous' journal. He typically comments on the strangeness of the world he is in and its bizarre and hostile inhabitants.

* AntagonistTitle

* DifficultySpike: The two penultimate levels in the third episode are significantly harder than anything else encountered so far, even harder than Xargon's Castle and the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Xargbot Factory]] following them.

* AttackDrone: The Xargbots, flying spherical robots with a single eye and a laser cannon. Chrome ones take two shots to kill.

* CheckpointStarvation: You can only save on the world map, and dying has you restart from the beginning of a level. The final levels avert this, though, and let you restart in their respective [[BossRoom boss sections]], and the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon very definitely final level]], a MarathonLevel, is divided into a couple more sections where you restart at the beginning of each. You still have to complete them in one sitting, however, since you're stuck on a level until you complete it (or exit the game).

* SchizoTech: Ancient artifacts, temples and caves with BambooTechnology... and killer robots, drones and EternalEngine-class factories (a couple of which are housed in ''castles'').

* FlunkyBoss: Xargon, the FinalBoss, spawns snails that crawl towards you, in addition to [[AttackDrone Xargbots]] like the reactors.

* ReactorBoss: Each episode ends with a reactor (except the final episode, where it guards the FinalBoss), spawning [[AttackDrone Xargbots]] nearby to attack you while you shoot at it until it explodes.

* {{XtremeKoolLetterz}}/XMakesAnythingCool: [[AttackDrone Xargbots]], Xibok, Xbats, etc. and Xargon himself, of course. There are also X:es plastered all over the walls, signs, etc. bordering on SigilSpam. There are also the X:es marking non-cave/-castle levels on the world map, but... it's a map.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Many enterable buildings are like this. It's particulary egregious in the third episode's "tribal village" level, where the huts are so big on the inside they don't even qualify as "huts" - Malvineous has to use ''springs'' to reach the top.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Many enterable buildings are like this. It's particulary egregious in the third episode's "tribal village" level, where the huts are ''several times'' bigger on the inside.

** [[InASingleBound Shoes that let you jump higher]] (they can be ''[[FridgeLogic stacked]]'' for [[UpToEleven insanely high jumps]])

* {{XtremeKoolLetterz}}/XMakesAnythingCool: [[AttackDrone Xargbots]], Xibok, [[GoddamnedBats Xbats]] etc. and Xargon himself, of course. There are also X:es plastered all over the walls, signs, etc. bordering on SigilSpam. There are also the X:es marking non-cave/-castle levels on the world map, but... it's a map.

* LedgeBats: Climbing beetles push you off of vines, ropes, etc. The knockback [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard ignores any active invincibility]], making [[ThatOneLevel that level with a row of vines each having a beetle climbing it]] very difficult.

* AbnormalAmmo: Malvineous' default weapon is a laser that he shoots out of... well, [[AccidentalInnuendo his junk.]] He doesn't seem to have an attack animation.

''Xargon'' is a PlatformGame developed and published by EpicGames (Then Epic Megagames) in 1993 for MS-DOS. The game consists of three episodes, the first of which was released as ShareWare. The full game was released as [[FreewareGames Freeware]] in 2008.

** The ability to throw a limited amount of [[FireBall Fireballs]] that plow through lines of enemies

* CoolBoat: In some [[UnderTheSea water levels,]] Malvineous can pilot a [[VideoGame/BioShock bathysphere]]-like submarine that can shoot lasers in two directions.

* CoolBoat: In some [[UnderTheSea water levels,]] Malvineous can pilot a bathysphere-like submarine that can shoot lasers in two directions.