old-school gaming t-shirt

[ScienceDad]

My wife complained that everyone else had cross-stitch stuff from me, so we talked about games she liked and this is the end result:

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Gaming geek showdown - who can name the game?
- sd

[Digitlanalog]

I can't name the game, but the shirt turned out pretty cute!! are those roller skates? :o

[La Ptite Bete]

Alex Kidd ? No...
I don't know !!!
But it rocks !!!

[ScienceDad]

I can't name the game, but the shirt turned out pretty cute!! are those roller skates? :o

Those are indeed roller skates
The shirt was from American Apparel. I remember when you could pick those up for $15 apiece, but now they're $25!
I'm not going to buy stuff from them anymore. :-/
- sd

[ScienceDad]

Alex Kidd ? No...
I don't know !!!
But it rocks !!!

Further back in time

[johloh]

Gaming geek showdown - who can name the game?

I thought I could name sprites from pretty much any game. but this has me totally stumped. I'm actually rather angry.

[blackmageheart]

Wonder Boy?

[ScienceDad]

I thought I could name sprites from pretty much any game. but this has me totally stumped. I'm actually rather angry.

If it's any consolation, I'd never even heard of the game. (Though I don't claim any comprehensive knowledge of gaming history, I'd like to think I have -something- tangible to take away from all those summers holed up in the basement playing Nintendo.)
I spent the better part of a week tracking down the game - my wife didn't remember the name, so all I had to go on was "it had a horseshoe in it". I ended up finding a Java emulation online, and played while taking screen captures.

[ScienceDad]

Wonder Boy?

Nope
I swear I'm not making this up!
I'll give it another day in case someone out there wants to claim the mondo bragging rights. I feel kinda bad because I seriously had never heard of the game before.
- sd

[La Ptite Bete]

California Games ?