> so, the |_ and _| are paddles? Do they trace a square or
> a circle around the center blocks?
They trace a large rectangle.
> You might wanna glance at Radial Pong
> http://atariage.com/development_page.html?InDevelopmentID=41
> Haven't heard about that for a long time.
It's similar in that the paddles move about some center point, but there's
definitely no use of curves or trig in the game I played on the C64. Also,
both paddles in the C64 game were controlled by one player and would remain
opposite each other. It was a fast paced and addictive game by my
recollection, but rather uninteresting visually. I think it was done in
text mode (not in a good way).
> Those old 80s mag probably had some great ideas for 2600 games.
> There was this one Compute's Gazette with a neat heat seeking
> missile game, there was a row of like 8 on the ground that would
> launch one at a time....control was kind of like 2600 Combat
> biplanes, but faster, and the goal was to get the missile following
> you to crash into the ground (hopefully taking another missile
> with it)
That sounds very much like one I found in an Apple ][ mag, Nibble. It was
an ML game called Heatseeker. I think I tried typing it in, but wasn't able
to get it running... or maybe I'm thinking of ANY OTHER ML listing I'd tried
to enter back then!
:)
-Lee
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