On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Glenn Saunders wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, kickass wrote:
> > Neato, eh? And if we playtest it 'tuff' not only will it be a neat feat,
> > but it will an awesome 1-4 player zen fest straight from hades bossom,
> > and (to the best of my knowledge,) the first original title to appear on the
> > 26 in a long time...
>
> Oystron is pretty original.
>
Well, yes, if he does finish before us, you are right! It's a good time
for the 2600! (Think he'll beat us? He's not that far along, is he? ;) )
> I'd be just as happy with a Toaster scroll, since it would also have a
> relationship with the 2600 (scrolls are generated directly by the Amiga
> chipset, designed by Jay Miner).
I've got a T-4000 (epimetalpolyenduro alloy,) biut Seriously, I do have a
Toaster 4000....
> > Warlords is one game I would never change, nor have found anything wrong
> > with (except for how lame it makes other games look,)
>
> The trajectory of balls from certain angles---they take a 45' turn for no
> apparent reason. There really should be more consistent physics. And
> with so few angles of rotation, the list of trajectories is very limited.
> It's easy to anticipate where an attack is coming from. As a result, the
> game isn't very playable unless the ball is bouncing between all four
> players where the unpredictability comes from not knowing who is going to
> be attacked next. The 1-player AI is also pretty bad.
I guess I've played it so much that I love it's idosnyncrasies. Ever play
'Lords of wor' on the amiga? (A shameless warlords rip off w/ fancy
graphics, power ups, spells (lots of them,) a skull instead of a ball,
and cool 'doom' mode (if there are players still alive after a certain
time, an evil thingy appears in the center and spits the ball out really
fast in a random direction (after a few random seconds, the ball
disappears and is spit back out again,) until only 1 player lives, and
play continues on the next level (etc,) the only thing I don't like about
it is that the screen scrolls while you play...
Zilla
KDK
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