Paul the sparky wrote:What was that adventure/puzzle game you were allowed to play in primary school?
AJ wrote:I seem to remember there being a single Archemedies or RM computer, in addition to all the BBCs, that had a decent version of Virus, but nobody could get the hang of the controls.
AJ wrote:I'm kinda hoping someone's going to come in with Spacewar!
krs wrote:AJ wrote:I seem to remember there being a single Archemedies or RM computer, in addition to all the BBCs, that had a decent version of Virus, but nobody could get the hang of the controls.
That was probably Lander, the demo version of Zarch/Virus which was made for, and came bundled with, the Arc. The intention was to help users get used to the mouse, although may have put some off it, given the difficulty.
We got an A3000 in '89 and the game looked so beautiful and controlled so smoothly, especially compared to anything on the Beeb, that it never bothered me that I wouldn't last more than a couple of minutes.
LarryDavid wrote:Again, Defender or a knock off of it. On my Dad's Electron.
Bob wrote:I was pinning my hopes on g. He's let us all downI'm kinda hoping someone's going to come in with Spacewar!
Yeah I remember that.AJ wrote:Yeah, the one where you typed stuff like "Podd can run" or "Podd can pop" and then it'd an animation of him doing that.
davyK wrote:
There is an even earlier game call OXO that used a primitive display to play noughts and crosses.
davyK wrote:Tennis for Two by Willie Higgbotham (!)- which was a demo game for a college exhibition that used an osciliscope as a display and some sort of analogue controllers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two There is an even earlier game call OXO that used a primitive display to play noughts and crosses.
Bob wrote:Eventually it works out that thermo nuclear war is unwinnable. Somebody challenge the president elect to a gamedavyK wrote:There is an even earlier game call OXO that used a primitive display to play noughts and crosses.
davyK wrote:
Given it was a flop I imagine not many played the original. I can remember playing a remake in the arcade by Cinematronics. It wasn't bad but the fact that gameplay was limited by a timer put me off. It had loads of buttons for setting different options for gravity, sun, asteroid etc. It wasn't one hit and you are dead either - if you weren't hit dead centre it only disabled your thrusters. Quite advanced for its time - and "HD" vector graphics too - probably too much for the average arcade gamer really.
The 2600 also got a Space War cartridge - kind of Combat in space and it wasn't bad either.
Djornson wrote:I don't remember what it was called but it was on PC around 1993. It was a 2D side scrolling game. You controlled a barbarian type chap. You threw axes at stuff. I feel like it had 'wrath' in the title. A bit like Altered Beast without the wolf part in play style.
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