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[[File:Cave_Story_1.jpg|frame|[[Cave Story/Characters|Meet the cast.]]]]

 

''You can also save your game and continue from where you left off.''

|Author's description of the game}}

Its breeding ground on the English-speaking Internet is [https://web.archive.org/web/20070831064801/http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/ here]. There have been many ports. There's a Mac OS X port available [http://www.wctc.net/~luvmimac/cavestory/ here], and a Linux port available [http://www.cavestory.org/downloads_1.php here]. A port to the original Xbox also exists, as well as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130612155426/http://dl.qj.net/psp/homebrew-games/cave-story-psp-rc1.html PSP port, here] (requires custom firmware). There has also been ports to several other obscure systems and platforms, among them Haiku OS, AROS, [[Amiga|AmigaOS]] 4, [[Sega Genesis]], GP2X, GP2X Wiz, and the TI graphing calculator.

 

 

 

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* [[Asteroids Monster]]: In the Sand Zone.

* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: All of the game's nastiest bosses also happen to only be vulnerable by shooting them in the face/mouth/eyes during a specific part of their attack pattern, always the part where they are spamming a ridiculous number of bullets onto the screen. Always. [[Captain Obvious|Of course, this is]] ''[[Captain Obvious|why]]'' [[Captain Obvious|they're the game's nastiest bosses]]. Also, {{spoiler|Ballos's second and third forms}}, though they don't disappear at any point.

* [[Badass]]: Quite a few characters (specifics below), but the most noticeable being King {{spoiler|due to the fact that he takes out Balrog, a recurring midboss that's relatively tough against Quote, in a single hit in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]}}.

** {{spoiler|And even after he dies, he still kicks plenty of ass. If you level up his Blade weapon to Level 3, Quote instead throws ''King's ghost'' at enemies while he slashes away at everything}}.

** "KILLER ROBOT!"

** How about the player character standing right there, with a weapon in hand, while the first boss punches Sue's lights out?

* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]:

** In most PC games, pressing the Escape key will pause the game and bring up a save/load/quit menu or some-such, and pressing Escape again will close the menu and send you back to the game. In '''''Cave Story''''', pressing Escape brings up the menu—and pressing Escape again ''quits the program without confirmation.'' Averted in Cave Story Plus, where you would be prompted to go to the main menu instead of quitting the game (and "No" is highlighted by default).

** You get a Fireball weapon, which is a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|fireball]] [[Super Mario Bros.|of infinite supply which bounces up and down as it moves forward]].

** {{spoiler|Ballos}}'s [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] "Kill me... or I shall KILL YOU!" presumably references a very similar line in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]''.

*** While we're still talking about Steam achievements, the acquirement for getting the Alien Medal is called [[The Shining|"Here's Johnny!"]].

** The 3D diorama before you boot up the 3DS version looks like something out of ''[[3D Dot Game Heroes]]''.

 

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