Warning: This chapter may contain stupidity and unexplained problem solving due to the game's nature.
PS: Why did I ever think this was a good game to write about? Like and Comment this story as always.
Luna sits down on her favorite chair, sipping her second favorite tea flavor: Honeysuckle with ginger extracts. She doesn’t know why she suddenly chose to start drinking this. Must have been the after the time she hid in Chaotic’s bed to hide from those two fillies. Despite that weird encounter, she tried the tea on a whim and surprisingly liked it. Speaking of beds, the owner of the bed that Luna hid in once is now dusting her room. Honoring the promise of the bet, the tan colt now wears a rustic style maid dress complete with grey mare leggings. All the while doing so, she could hear him cussing under his breath on how stupid he was to agree to the contest.
“Having fun there?” Luna causally asked.
Chaotic stops for a moment. “Oh, I’m having a blast. Say could you hand me the spray bottle so I can blast you with it?”
“No you may not,” Luna said. “Remember, the loser has to do what the winner tells him for a week, and that includes not spraying your master with water. Really now, you’ve only been doing this for 1 day so far.”
“Yeah, and so far you’ve made me clean your room. Reshelf your books and video games. Tripped into that vat of your potion brew which has changed my hair color, and pick up the countless pastry wrappers you have left behind. Seriously, how many Moon Pies did you eat?!” he complained.
“Oh, quite a few.” She sips more of her tea.
“Really though, why all the wrappers? That’s what caused me to slip into the cauldron and change my hair blue!” he said.
“Oh relax, you look great in blue,” she said.
She clicks over to her favorite gaming website to catch up on the latest news of gaming and all that is virtually holy. As she scrolls down the list of featured games, her eyes catches on a particular bit that has been rated five stars and tagged ‘Youtuber Played’.
“Hey now what’s this?” Luna said to herself.
She clicks on the link. The website immediately takes her to a page that is titled MacPixel. Luna reads the description.
The main objective is to get a bomb out of the level before 20 seconds pass. This is done by interacting and picking up various objects, which can be done be clicking on the left mouse button. An example of this would be on a submarine, where you have to pick up the bomb and throw it out the window.
When you succeed in getting the bomb out of the level, you get awarded by having one of three slots filled in with white. When you get all three of these slots filled in, you get a bonus round. If you get the three slots filled in again in the same round, you get a second bonus round. Although, losing causes you to lose the filling of the slots, and also causes an animation of the level blowing up, or the "bad ending".
The game has over 100 levels, bonuses, secrets, a free DLC, 185 BMP music, switchable pixel filters, and a level creator.
The game is simple. Just. Plain. Simple. How is this rated five stars? She looks over to the name of the Youtuber that has played the game.
PinkDiePie
Isn’t that Pinkie Pie’s youtube channel, Luna thought.
Pinkie Pie is a major youtuber on the web. If she has considered this to be playable, then so shall Luna. She clicks on the download button to start the process of installation. She looks over her shoulders to see how Chaotic is doing. Currently, he is passed out on Luna’s bed.
Aww, he looks so peaceful. Almost makes me wanna leave him sleeping. She floats over the spray bottle to sleeper’s face. Almost.
Chaotic suddenly wakes up as he gets hosed down by the gust of water in his face. He wipes the drizzle off his face.
“Come on, you only have a few more dusty book shelves to go,” Luna soothingly said.
Chaotic groans some more as he walks up the step ladders to dust some more.
Luna hears the bleep sound that indicates the completion of the game’s installment. She clicks on the new icon that gives the impression of a red stallion’s head. The screen darkens for a moment, then lights up again. The warning slide pops up with all of its immeasurable wisdom of the dangers of the game. She clicks on to skip it.
As the game continues, Luna watches on as she sees a red pony…is that guy defecating on TNT?
She observes on in disgust as the TNT proceeds to blow (up) the red stallion. White letters then formulate directions for her to continue. She clicks again.
Luna could hear 8-bit music resonating out of her headphones as she watches the opening sequence. The beginning shows a falling pixilated bolder with the words ‘A Ponyville Colt Cooperation Presents’ inscribed on it. It seems to be blazing with 8-bit fire as it falls through the atmosphere. The scene cuts back to the same red stallion that provided itself as the shortcut icon for Macpixel. The stallion had an orange mane and a large harness around his neck. He really looks familiar now that Luna could see the entire body. There is a large button in the middle of the pasture with an arrow sign that was begging the button to be pushed with the words ‘Press to Start’. Luna proceeds ahead to push the button. The next thing she knows, she witnesses the same rock from before, crushing her red protagonist. The title of the game pops up in red letters.
What the buck? I just started and I already died?, Luna thought.
The game then takes her to the menu that is filled with a bunch of pixilated characters with options floating above them, including her own character. Luna decides to click on ‘Story mode’ since this is her first time playing this. The red stallion (which Luna decides to call to call MacPixel) goes over to the old colt underneath the floating letters and starts to kick the poor old pony out of his chair.
“Oh what the hell? What is he doing?” Luna shouted.
“What are you playing Luna?” Chaotic asked, hearing his temporary ‘mistress’ rage.
“My guy just started kicking the defenseless colt!” Luna said.
Chaotic goes over to her computer screen to see a familiar red stallion jump off his feet and teleport into what appears to be a room full the same stallion. Only that all the red stallions were at their different stages of life.
“Hey, isn’t that Big Mac?” Chaotic said.
“Who?!” Luna demanded, still fuming about the whole kicking thing.
“Applejack’s brother. He helps her manage Sweet Apple Acres,” he explained.
“Does he kick old ponies in his spare time?” Luna said.
“As far as I’m concerned, no.”
“Well, whatever. I think this is a dumb game already,” she grudgingly said.
“Well, this is MacPixel. It’s supposed to make a whole lot of sense,” he said, rolling his eyes and saying with a tone that indicates his infinite sarcasm. “You should start on Chapter One.”
Luna does so to only pick up the baby pony version of MacPixel. She then turns her attention to the black hole in the floor.
“Oh no, this isn’t what I think it’s going to be?” Luna said.
Chaotic only looks on in amusement as he knows what will happen next and Luna doesn’t.
Luna grumbles as she clicks on the hole. McPixel then kicks the baby colt over the hole and jumps in the gaping entrance. Luna watches in disbelief as the sequence proceeded in a totally different scenario. She turns to Chaotic.
He looks at her with a big smile. “What? Did you really think the baby was going to go in?”
She nods slowly.
“Well thankfully Ponyville’s colt programmers know when to not cross the line.” Chaotic leans forward to close Luna’s jaw. “And try not to leave your mouth open. It’s unbecoming of you.”
Luna sticks her tongue at him and looks at the screen. She clicks on the door to the far left to start the first round.
Music starts playing as Luna sees an island in the distance. The game zooms forward as Luna spots a stick of dynamite on the ground.
“Oh horse apples, what do I do?” Luna said.
“Don’t ask me. I’m not gonna spoil it for you,” Chaotic said.
She goes over the red explosive and picks it up. She panics as the timer reaches the 10 second mark.
“Ohmygoshohmygosh what do I do?”
She spots an ice cream vendor and she decides to give the TNT to him. MacPixel however decides to smack the bomb over on the poor pony’s head repeatingly. The island explodes.
Luna stares at the screen in disbelief as the round moves on to a school.
“Whose stupid idea was this?” Luna said.
Chaotic shrugs. “Ponyville colts?” he suggested.
Luna looks around for what could be an explosive. She did not see such a thing anywhere. She goes over to the lockers and opens them all. The door at the very end reveals the bomb.
“Yes!” Luna shouted.
The school explodes.
“What?!” she yelled. “But I found the bomb!”
The game moves onto a snowier scene as she finds herself stranded on a computer generated iceberg. She looks around to see something churning in the water. She clicks on it to reveal a grey seal waving hi to her. She smiles and happily waves back in real life. The iceberg explodes.
Luna keeps on waving at the screen with a face of despair painted over her.
“This game sucks,” she said.
“Well, keep on trying Luna. You’ll probably finish it in, I guess, one hour?” Chaotic heads towards the door. “Well, it’s almost night time. You should raise the moon soon.”
“Sure I’ll do it,” Luna said, still waving at the screen.
Luna’s forehead beads with sweats as she races against the clock to finish the final round. She trots on the grounds of a distilled space station as she rushes around with an atom bomb. She goes over the cow in the space pen to shove the explosive into Faust knows where.
“Sorry cow! This is for the good of all pony kind and space rock goodness!” Luna apologized.
She slams her mouse button on a button that activates the bay doors. MacPixel hangs on for dear life as the cow gets swept away into the dark reaches of space. The game then awards Luna with praise as it tells her that she saved the day.
“YES! I BEAT THE BUCKING GAME!” Luna cheered.
Luna leaps out of her chair and dances for joy as the music plays. She continues on as she couldn’t hear the door to her bedroom opening, showing her sister looking at Luna bemused.
“Luna, it’s 8:00 PM already. Shouldn’t the moon be up already?” Celestia asked.
Luna just keeps on dancing.
“Luna.”
Still dancing.
“LUNA!” Celestia shouted.
Luna yells as she trips backwards. She looks at the cause of the outburst to see a very annoyed Tia. The two stare into each other’s eyes until Luna finally realizes what is wrong. She gives Celestia a give squee and an even bigger sheepish smile as she runs to her balcony.
In the next morning, a certain red stallion makes his journey to the market place to set up his daily run of selling Sweet Apple Acre apples. As he did, he could feel the eyes of a dozen mares pressing on him as he steps onto market grounds.
“Hey girls look! It’s MacPixel!” one said.
Big Macintosh flinches as a wave of fanmares sweeps over him as they try to get his autograph. Oh gosh, what has he done this time?