LGR - SkyRoads Xmas Special - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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David
It's a trial and error game. You memorize the jumps and the number of bounces to let the ship make. It's a very challenging game, but I think it isn't as daunting as you might be making it sound.
The way to play it is to repeat the same track over and over, figuring out the tact for each next section and making it a bit further each time, until you have it down and beat the track.
Games back then were designed with that mentality in mind. It wasn't until mid-2000s or something that games started being designed with the mindset that players should beat each level and challenge on their first try and not have to repeat parts many times over.
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It's a trial and error game. You memorize the jumps and the number of bounces to let the ship make. It's a very challenging game, but I think it isn't as daunting as you might be making it sound.
The way to play it is to repeat the same track over and over, figuring out the tact for each next section and making it a bit further each time, until you have it down and beat the track.
Games back then were designed with that mentality in mind. It wasn't until mid-2000s or something that games started being designed with the mindset that players should beat each level and challenge on their first try and not have to repeat parts many times over.
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Jason
The original was actually pretty awesome, or maybe that was simply due to the fact it somehow found its way on to all the computers in my high school. Competing with the rest of the class while your supposed to be doing whatever lesson and trying to avoid getting caught and completing the levels was what I lived for back then. Suppose its no surprise im the kind of guy who gets hooked on World of Warcraft. Happily I've been in remission for about 3 years now, sadly I just beta whatever the hell i can find instead
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The original was actually pretty awesome, or maybe that was simply due to the fact it somehow found its way on to all the computers in my high school. Competing with the rest of the class while your supposed to be doing whatever lesson and trying to avoid getting caught and completing the levels was what I lived for back then. Suppose its no surprise im the kind of guy who gets hooked on World of Warcraft. Happily I've been in remission for about 3 years now, sadly I just beta whatever the hell i can find instead
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CaptainRufus
My preferred Christmas game is the Doom 2 wad/partial conversion Head 2 Head Christmas 2 or some name like that. Instead of Doom Marine you are Santa Claus. Every level has Christmas music and all the power ups are changed into Christmasy things, and there is some background graphics changes like snow and the like. Plus the levels are chock full of enemies causing glorious zones of mayhem. Even worked with Doomsday Project mods. And dying = Santa saying -Oww my face! - Great stuff!
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My preferred Christmas game is the Doom 2 wad/partial conversion Head 2 Head Christmas 2 or some name like that. Instead of Doom Marine you are Santa Claus. Every level has Christmas music and all the power ups are changed into Christmasy things, and there is some background graphics changes like snow and the like. Plus the levels are chock full of enemies causing glorious zones of mayhem. Even worked with Doomsday Project mods. And dying = Santa saying -Oww my face! - Great stuff!
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andlinux
I don't think the one who is playing this is using glitches.
When I was a kid I played this all the time and it is difficult, you have to play some rounds sometimes a lot to end it and it is frustrating and it demands a lot of concentration.
It takes a lot of time for some rounds to make it to the end.
What I also like about this game is the music because it fits the game and when I hear it then I feel nostalgia; )
The good old times: )
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I don't think the one who is playing this is using glitches.
When I was a kid I played this all the time and it is difficult, you have to play some rounds sometimes a lot to end it and it is frustrating and it demands a lot of concentration.
It takes a lot of time for some rounds to make it to the end.
What I also like about this game is the music because it fits the game and when I hear it then I feel nostalgia; )
The good old times: )
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BurnRoddy
Sky Roads!
Oh man I used to own a copy of the game back in the day.
Cool game, filled with the required amount of adrenaline inducing substance to make the hairs on your back to twirl around copiously on their own, and capable of gestating an unhelty amount of selfinduced addiction to make random green goblins appear before your eyes.
I used to pump this mother with my old George Thorogood record in the background.
Tottal blast.
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Sky Roads!
Oh man I used to own a copy of the game back in the day.
Cool game, filled with the required amount of adrenaline inducing substance to make the hairs on your back to twirl around copiously on their own, and capable of gestating an unhelty amount of selfinduced addiction to make random green goblins appear before your eyes.
I used to pump this mother with my old George Thorogood record in the background.
Tottal blast.
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sven's
Didn't know this version, I first knew the regular version about six years ago, someone planted it on my school's computers, I used to play it a lot in computer class and manage to beat all the levels on that one.
Some required a lot of replaying and level memorization but it sure was a lot funner than learning Microsoft Office or Foxpro! haha
Maybe someday I'll try this one out! Perhaps at the office now, haha.
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Didn't know this version, I first knew the regular version about six years ago, someone planted it on my school's computers, I used to play it a lot in computer class and manage to beat all the levels on that one.
Some required a lot of replaying and level memorization but it sure was a lot funner than learning Microsoft Office or Foxpro! haha
Maybe someday I'll try this one out! Perhaps at the office now, haha.
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Highretrogamelord
-screams-
OH! MY! GOODNESS!
I forget about this, till you brought it back.
Believe me, the more I saw about this, the bigger my eyes became!
I think I have this on a CD (I can't find) along with other classics, like Xargon and a DOS puzzle game where you have to open certain rooms with a key and collect stuff (maybe you know the name)
May I hug you for bringing back memories?
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-screams-
OH! MY! GOODNESS!
I forget about this, till you brought it back.
Believe me, the more I saw about this, the bigger my eyes became!
I think I have this on a CD (I can't find) along with other classics, like Xargon and a DOS puzzle game where you have to open certain rooms with a key and collect stuff (maybe you know the name)
May I hug you for bringing back memories?
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Simon
So I came into DOS gaming late. Kid with a NES and Genesis and some such until a PC in time for Half Life. But, after Half LIfe opened the door to PC Gaming and also its history, I later came across Skyroads. It came into my life maybe a little too late, but, I've a history with Skyroads of which I'm proud. Fun stuff, and a window to not just a simpler, but a better ) time.
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So I came into DOS gaming late. Kid with a NES and Genesis and some such until a PC in time for Half Life. But, after Half LIfe opened the door to PC Gaming and also its history, I later came across Skyroads. It came into my life maybe a little too late, but, I've a history with Skyroads of which I'm proud. Fun stuff, and a window to not just a simpler, but a better ) time.
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LGR
-Shiqna1 It does have some similarities to Yoomp, as do many other retro games (Bounder also comes to mind, which is even more similar to Yoomp! I think. The whole bouncing/following a path into the vanishing point genre I guess, hehe. Yoomp! is one of the biggest reasons I pull out my Atari 8-bit machines from time to time, simply a superb game all-around.
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-Shiqna1 It does have some similarities to Yoomp, as do many other retro games (Bounder also comes to mind, which is even more similar to Yoomp! I think. The whole bouncing/following a path into the vanishing point genre I guess, hehe. Yoomp! is one of the biggest reasons I pull out my Atari 8-bit machines from time to time, simply a superb game all-around.
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LGR
-JMJ363 Well, I suppose that's the danger of showing anything at all as -background- in any of my videos: people tend to make requests for everything! That's cool, I like to gauge interests. I do hope to review the Sonic & Garfield Pack, as well as the other games shown in that section. Stay tuned this coming year, lots of cool stuff is incoming!
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-JMJ363 Well, I suppose that's the danger of showing anything at all as -background- in any of my videos: people tend to make requests for everything! That's cool, I like to gauge interests. I do hope to review the Sonic & Garfield Pack, as well as the other games shown in that section. Stay tuned this coming year, lots of cool stuff is incoming!
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