Name: Yorgle
Debut: Adventure
Dragons are such a staple of fiction and fantasy, it's hard to imagine a time when they were not part of human imagination! But that's the world people lived in before 1980. That fateful year, Adventure released for the Atari somesequenceofnumbers. This is a game about a square going on an adventure. Though this charismatic square may have been the hero, it was someone else that captured the hearts of gamers... it was the Dragon. And his name was Yorgle!
To be honest, dragons tend to bore me with their designs, usually using the same design aspects I've seen sooo many times before... so when I see one that's a weird seahorsey thing, I am rejuvenated! And better yet, his name is Yorgle. Yorgle! Official lore states that Yorgle, among the game's three dragons, is not ferocious.
But wait! Don't take that as an invitation to mingle with Yorgle! He is not ferocious, but he is- and I quote- "just plain mean". If you asked Yorgle for an autograph, he wouldn't give you one, and he would say "ah, put a sock in it, bub". Mean! He's lucky he looks so funny, otherwise I wouldn't let him hang out at my house and degrade my mental health with his harsh words.
When he opens his mouth, Yorgle looks less like a seahorse and more like the proverbial "freakin' duck"! The dragons in this game have the ability to eat our handsome square hero, and you can actually wiggle around in his stomach afterward, since the closed-mouth sprite has a transparent belly. That's weird but a fun little detail. It feels like a toy feature!
From what I can tell, there have not been many official "redesigns" of Yorgle, the most notable being this one from The Sandbox. And learning about this one made me realize that The Sandbox, which I once knew as a very cool mobile game about physics and creativity, became some metaverse nonsense for nitwits to play with their NFTs in. Yuck! Let's return to the past before that existed.
I mentioned other dragons earlier. There are three! The yellow Yorgle, the green Grundle, and the red Rhindle. Here they are if they were singing in a glee club and Yorgle was off beat, making the other two disappointed in him. Grundle is mean and ferocious, but Rhindle is the most ferocious of all! No mention of him being mean, though. I guess it's implied.
Maybe it's just because of Homestar Runner, but Yorgle is iconic to me! I would love to see this funny dragon appear more often in the modern day, in GOOD games, and of course, resemble his classic seahorsey self! Atari has been letting various developers revitalize their franchises recently... we may be entering a new age of Yorgle! Or at least an age where we get a new mediocre look at Yorgle. I'll take what I can get!
