LGR - Keypunch Games on an IBM 5150 Part 3 - Arcade 0
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Zycyzyx
Another Red Baron fan here - I used to play it on our POS Tandy and it was easily one of the best non-ASCII based games we had for it. I couldn't even find any info about it for years due to not knowing it's dubious) relation to the more well known Sopwith. Hearing those PC Speaker sounds again brings back such memories. :)
I still prefer Striker but I love both equally for how ludicrously fun it is to fail at them. My favorite idiotic tactic is immediately flipping upside-down in the air then dropping a bomb.
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Another Red Baron fan here - I used to play it on our POS Tandy and it was easily one of the best non-ASCII based games we had for it. I couldn't even find any info about it for years due to not knowing it's dubious) relation to the more well known Sopwith. Hearing those PC Speaker sounds again brings back such memories. :)
I still prefer Striker but I love both equally for how ludicrously fun it is to fail at them. My favorite idiotic tactic is immediately flipping upside-down in the air then dropping a bomb.
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mocthezuma
-phreakindee Yeah, but you get used to that fairly quick. All you have to do is go all the way to one side(whrere the aliens haven't shifted to) and then all the way down to get behind the bases. When it comes to only having one shot, I can't remember the name of the game but you use it in the fire and ice intro and clearly you get more than one shot in that game, which is quite good. I think its called Round something. Anyway, the game is not so bad. It's better than all the spotsgames combined
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-phreakindee Yeah, but you get used to that fairly quick. All you have to do is go all the way to one side(whrere the aliens haven't shifted to) and then all the way down to get behind the bases. When it comes to only having one shot, I can't remember the name of the game but you use it in the fire and ice intro and clearly you get more than one shot in that game, which is quite good. I think its called Round something. Anyway, the game is not so bad. It's better than all the spotsgames combined
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LGR
-mocthezuma Sopwith is pretty decent, I spent some time with it after this and had some fun. I still prefer games like SkyStrike.
But the space invaders game? Heh, were we looking at the same game? It's common for SI clones to have only one shot at a time, as that's how the original game is as well, so I don't see that as an issue at all. The problems are that your ship starts at the top of the screen, you can fly through your shields and anywhere else, and the hit detection is sometimes off.
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-mocthezuma Sopwith is pretty decent, I spent some time with it after this and had some fun. I still prefer games like SkyStrike.
But the space invaders game? Heh, were we looking at the same game? It's common for SI clones to have only one shot at a time, as that's how the original game is as well, so I don't see that as an issue at all. The problems are that your ship starts at the top of the screen, you can fly through your shields and anywhere else, and the hit detection is sometimes off.
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mocthezuma
-Red Baron- is actually a fantastic game, but it's called sopwith and can be seen here: /watch? v=qr1zxxEjw_w
It's was really a great game for it's time and packed loads of fun into a simple setting. The space invaders clone is not too bad, the only thing that sucks about it is that you can only fire one shot at a time, which means if you miss whatever you're shooting at you have to wait for your ammo to exit the screen before you can shoot again.
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-Red Baron- is actually a fantastic game, but it's called sopwith and can be seen here: /watch? v=qr1zxxEjw_w
It's was really a great game for it's time and packed loads of fun into a simple setting. The space invaders clone is not too bad, the only thing that sucks about it is that you can only fire one shot at a time, which means if you miss whatever you're shooting at you have to wait for your ammo to exit the screen before you can shoot again.
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VWestlife
I have Sopwith and Hopper (it saves the high score file as HOPPER. SCO, so I assume that's the correct name for the game, as well as Space Commanders II (the correct name, before Keypunch edited it) -- which is an excellent game, once you get used to the differences versus Space Invaders. It is a high-res 640x200 game, so that's why it's in monochrome (although I think a composite monitor might show some -artifacted- colors on it.
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I have Sopwith and Hopper (it saves the high score file as HOPPER. SCO, so I assume that's the correct name for the game, as well as Space Commanders II (the correct name, before Keypunch edited it) -- which is an excellent game, once you get used to the differences versus Space Invaders. It is a high-res 640x200 game, so that's why it's in monochrome (although I think a composite monitor might show some -artifacted- colors on it.
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LGR
-vwestlife That makes sense, I thought it looked much higher than normal 320x200 but the downside with these videos is I don't get to explore such trivia and I love useless trivia. It really does look amazing on a 5153 monitor! Thanks for the info.
I also later found Space Commanders II on another disk, odd that Keypunch callously edited whatever they seemed to want to in these games.
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-vwestlife That makes sense, I thought it looked much higher than normal 320x200 but the downside with these videos is I don't get to explore such trivia and I love useless trivia. It really does look amazing on a 5153 monitor! Thanks for the info.
I also later found Space Commanders II on another disk, odd that Keypunch callously edited whatever they seemed to want to in these games.
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LGR
-Ogma01 I remember the days well, I was still using old hardware well into the 90's. I always chuckle a bit to myself when people complain of a game having -eternal loading times- and they're only about 30-45 seconds. Try a couple minutes, or even 5 - 10 for cassette games!
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-Ogma01 I remember the days well, I was still using old hardware well into the 90's. I always chuckle a bit to myself when people complain of a game having -eternal loading times- and they're only about 30-45 seconds. Try a couple minutes, or even 5 - 10 for cassette games!
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WildDieWoodard
Well, back in the day, our attention spans were a tad different than they are now. When waiting for something to load, you would flip through the literature or step away to get a drink, etc. It was just the way it was.
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Well, back in the day, our attention spans were a tad different than they are now. When waiting for something to load, you would flip through the literature or step away to get a drink, etc. It was just the way it was.
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nathanallan1
I wonder if there is any way to make a joystick work on this? Looks pretty fun.
That Invaders game is very odd, I'd like to play that one and it looks like it would be made more fun with a bit of hacking on it
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I wonder if there is any way to make a joystick work on this? Looks pretty fun.
That Invaders game is very odd, I'd like to play that one and it looks like it would be made more fun with a bit of hacking on it
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badsectoracula
I played a ton of Sopwith on my XT when i was a kid. Apparently it was popular enough for someone to make an open source remake - google for SDL Sopwith: -. Also the original code was released in 2000.
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I played a ton of Sopwith on my XT when i was a kid. Apparently it was popular enough for someone to make an open source remake - google for SDL Sopwith: -. Also the original code was released in 2000.
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