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At first I thought it didn't work for me neither in Firefox 49.0 nor Chromium 51.0 on Fedora 23. One has to first press one of the "GAME A" or "GAME B" buttons, and then press the "JUMP" button.
(Game A / Game B was how you started the game on the original)
Side note for hn devs, this url is in Chinese characters but appears as garbage in hn site.
At first I thought it didn't work for me neither in Firefox 49.0 nor Chromium 51.0 on Fedora 23. One has to first press one of the "GAME A" or "GAME B" buttons, and then press the "JUMP" button.
Dam I loved that game as a child! (Game A / Game B was how you started the game on the original)
Side note for hn devs, this url is in Chinese characters but appears as garbage in hn site.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#...
I think I played this IRL. It would be nice to be able to use the keyboard to play, clicking the screen with the mouse is too difficult (I don't have a touchscreen.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#...
That explains that it's not 'garbage' but it doesn't explain why hn isn't doing something a bit nicer than hosing the Unicode version. As another commenter pointed out, even just displaying both would probably be an improvement.
The game logic is held within the CSS, which has a rather beautiful obfuscation/formatting applied: http://kong.xn--8ws00zhy3a.com/kong.css