50: Penny Arcade
| Penny Arcade |
 Title text: Of course, Penny Arcade has already mocked themselves for this. They don't care. |
Explanation
Penny Arcade is a popular web comic that focuses on video game culture. The character above is Tycho Brahe, one of the two main characters of Penny Arcade (the other being Jonathan "Gabe" Gabriel). Penny Arcade has a reputation for making obscure references to video games without explaining, expecting the reader to be as well-versed in gaming culture as they are, represented by the attitude shown in this comic.
'Seiken Densetsu,' as mentioned in the strip, probably refers to Seiken Densetsu 3, an Action role-playing game (Action-RPG) released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in Japan in 1995, later to be known by the English title of Trials of Mana. The game was neither released in the North American region nor officially translated to English for more than thirteen years after this strip. However, many North American game players might also have recognized Seiken Densetsu 2, the predecessor in the series, by its North American name of Secret of Mana.
As the title text admits, they know they behave like this, and have this reputation, but they don't care, and even refer to it in their own comic.
Transcript
- [A color drawing of Tycho, a man with wild brown hair in blue and cyan colored shirt. He has a big open mouth and holds one arm up while the other may be in his (unseen) pocket. He has two speech bubbles,]
- Tycho: You know what? If you've never played the 1995 SNES RPG "Seiken Densetsu", don't even bother reading today's strip.
- Tycho: We don't need your kind here.
Trivia
- This was the forty-seventh comic originally posted to LiveJournal. The previous one was 49: Want, and the next one was 54: Science.
- It is the first of the last six comics on LiveJournal that all had a title without the word "Drawing" in it.
- Five of these had exactly the same title on both sites.
- Only 11 comics have the same title on both sites.
- Apart from the first thirteen comics posted to LiveJournal, there were only three other comics without the word "Drawing" in the title before these last six.
- Original Randall quote: "I'm actually pretty fond of Penny Arcade, when I get the jokes."
- This comic was one of the last 11 comics posted on LiveJournal.
- These 11 comics were posted both on LiveJournal and xkcd after the xkcd site opened on the 1st of January 2006.
- This comic was posted on the same day on both sites.
- They were not all posted on the same day though.
- During the start-up of xkcd, several of the comics were released on days that deviated from the normal Monday, Wednesday, Friday scheme. This one was released on a Tuesday. It was the last of a series of three where the release day was shifted to one day later. This one was posted quite early, at 1:53 am, so it could almost have become a normal Monday comic.
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Should we perhaps mention that it's available in the US as of 2019-06-11? Release announced on Nintendo Direct E3. 172.68.34.4 00:32, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
