Day 56

Everybody loves Tomb Raider .
Not the movies of course, they were utter rubbish. But the games, everybody loves.
Ok, maybe not all the games; they each have their merits (i.e. the latter ones look fantastic), but on the whole they are all mostly awful, with the exception of the very original game, which everybody loves. That and the anniversary version of the original (the product of someone at Team TR taking a long hard look at the saga, sighing wistfully at all the triangular breasts, and demanding a do-over), which everybody also loves.

But, even better than the terrible movies and the fantastic games is Real Life Tomb Raider. Real Life Tomb Raider is not unlike the Tomb Raider games; the core principles are the same but with one or two substitutions. For instance, instead of playing Lara Croft, you play you.
And instead of travelling far and wide on perilous excursions to the darkest uncharted corners of the Earth seeking heavily researched missing artefacts, you decide that in your immediate vicinity there is an area beyond that of average pedestrian access housing a glorious treasure of which there is no supporting evidence. Then you must reach said treasure using any means necessary.

Anyway, this is all relevant because today's THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge T-shirt is a second donation from Matt at Insert Coin Clothing and features the 1996 rendition of the Atlantean Scion, making this T-shirt a treasure in of itself.
Had I have possessed this tee from the Essex-based gaming-wear designers at the time of my last Real Life Tomb Raider outing, I perhaps would not have felt as ridiculous during my fateful demise jumping across picnic tables at a Kent wildlife reserve – but that’s a story for another time…

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On the subject of gaming design, take a look at a Tomb Raider themed strip from my guest comic slot on The Escapist from a few years back.