>> The warlords? Notice that the player-object shields can also move
>> onto those scanlines. And it'd be much easier to draw the warlords
>
>Maybe the lords themselves are missiles, that's possible. It doesn't have
>to adjust the horizontal position, just the width.
The lords themselves are definitely missiles, that's my point. :)
>> >I still think that Warlords is a game that needs to be rewritten. If I
>> >ever do figure out how to program the 2600, I will cut my teeth on
>> >rewriting Warlords as an exercise.
>>
>> Why? Isn't it great as-is?
>
>It's good when it could have been great. The ball physics suck and there
>aren't enough degrees of rotation. I hear the arcade version is vastly
>superior.
Yeah, I understand what you mean there. The phantom 45-degree turns
add some spice, though :)
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