LGR - Combat Tanks - PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Szil-rd
Let's look at the numbers for a moment. I reckon I could build this game from the ground up in a few dozens of hours with very little previous game programming knowledge with only paint and a c++ compiler. I bet it didn't take two supposedly experienced programmers more than 100 work hours to create with testing and everything else. I don't know how much they asked for it, but if it only brought in $1 per copy, it still made the developers more than $30000, which is like $48000 today. 48000/100/2 = $240 for every hour of work. It must have been good being a game developer in that day and age.
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Let's look at the numbers for a moment. I reckon I could build this game from the ground up in a few dozens of hours with very little previous game programming knowledge with only paint and a c++ compiler. I bet it didn't take two supposedly experienced programmers more than 100 work hours to create with testing and everything else. I don't know how much they asked for it, but if it only brought in $1 per copy, it still made the developers more than $30000, which is like $48000 today. 48000/100/2 = $240 for every hour of work. It must have been good being a game developer in that day and age.
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Germ-n
The -rocket- is really a missile and it's not slow you control its speed and direction with cursor keys (as an RC missile) up/down speed and left/right direction. You didn't mention you could build bunkers with the walls/blocks and even crush other tanks by pushing those onto them. Pushing blocks have an enegy penalty cost, and bunkers are excelent against all units except with planes in such case you're trapped and cannot avoid the air ride.
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The -rocket- is really a missile and it's not slow you control its speed and direction with cursor keys (as an RC missile) up/down speed and left/right direction. You didn't mention you could build bunkers with the walls/blocks and even crush other tanks by pushing those onto them. Pushing blocks have an enegy penalty cost, and bunkers are excelent against all units except with planes in such case you're trapped and cannot avoid the air ride.
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Jeremy
I want to see reviews of Virtuoso and The Movies.
Reason for Virtuoso: Bad games interest me, bad box art interests me (that's why I prefer your -worst box art- video over your -best box art- video, and bad games with bad box art definitely interest me.
Reason for The Movies: Like some other games I heard about circa 2002-2005 and never played, 2000's me had no interest in it, but 2010's me wants to play it.
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I want to see reviews of Virtuoso and The Movies.
Reason for Virtuoso: Bad games interest me, bad box art interests me (that's why I prefer your -worst box art- video over your -best box art- video, and bad games with bad box art definitely interest me.
Reason for The Movies: Like some other games I heard about circa 2002-2005 and never played, 2000's me had no interest in it, but 2010's me wants to play it.
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Fernando
I used to play a similar game back on the day. You could choose a tank, a jeep and a helicopter if I'm not mistaken. The objective was to destroy the other guy's base. It was on an island. If you wandered too far away from it. A submarine would come up and shot you down. I've been trying to find that game for ever, but I don't remember it's name or the year it was launched. Please somebody help?
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I used to play a similar game back on the day. You could choose a tank, a jeep and a helicopter if I'm not mistaken. The objective was to destroy the other guy's base. It was on an island. If you wandered too far away from it. A submarine would come up and shot you down. I've been trying to find that game for ever, but I don't remember it's name or the year it was launched. Please somebody help?
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weirdee
Fun fact: the -please buy our game- invincible death copter wasn't actually invincible, they just set its health so high that it took over ten minutes of sustained fire to kill it.
How? You can push the concrete blocks with your tank, which can be used to crush enemies, or create impenetrable bunkers with a gap thin enough to only let your shots through.
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Fun fact: the -please buy our game- invincible death copter wasn't actually invincible, they just set its health so high that it took over ten minutes of sustained fire to kill it.
How? You can push the concrete blocks with your tank, which can be used to crush enemies, or create impenetrable bunkers with a gap thin enough to only let your shots through.
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thetidebreaks
I'm hoping someone here might remember - does anyone remember the airplane sim that was on AOL at some point? I feel like I remember it involved some form of payment after a while, but I played the shit out of the trial.
Anyone else remember what it was called? To this day I've been hoping to somehow find a way to play it again.
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I'm hoping someone here might remember - does anyone remember the airplane sim that was on AOL at some point? I feel like I remember it involved some form of payment after a while, but I played the shit out of the trial.
Anyone else remember what it was called? To this day I've been hoping to somehow find a way to play it again.
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tada
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-Instructions for realistic 1990s Internet browsing experience: -
1) Play dial-up noise for 30 seconds
1a) (optional) replay to simulate reconnecting to get the coveted 52 kbps
2) Set video to 144p quality
3) Click play on video, then click pause
4) Come back in an hour to simulate buffering speed
5) Then click play
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Emilie
LGR! You are the old games man! I'm looking for a game I remember my friend playing. It's a tank game and you needed to put (rocks? unmoving canonball) on white and red targets. You needed to push them and if they stucked in a corner, it was too bad. I'm not even sure if the vehicle was actually a tank but I think so.
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LGR! You are the old games man! I'm looking for a game I remember my friend playing. It's a tank game and you needed to put (rocks? unmoving canonball) on white and red targets. You needed to push them and if they stucked in a corner, it was too bad. I'm not even sure if the vehicle was actually a tank but I think so.
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Thomas
Speaking of sharing the same keyboard, I used to play the Frogger reboot in the late 90s with three of my friends all on the same keyboard. Yes, four of us, using the same keyboard at one time. Lots of arguments naturally followed. I, of course, got the main arrow keys, and left the others to fend on the letter keys.
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Speaking of sharing the same keyboard, I used to play the Frogger reboot in the late 90s with three of my friends all on the same keyboard. Yes, four of us, using the same keyboard at one time. Lots of arguments naturally followed. I, of course, got the main arrow keys, and left the others to fend on the letter keys.
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DossKat
Man, this brought back some crazy memories of playing on my first pc (P166 with 32mb ram and 2mb graphics card. The death chopper drove me crazy, but it wasn't like I could send the creator a cheque from new zealand back then to buy the full version (plus I was probably 7 or 8 years old)
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Man, this brought back some crazy memories of playing on my first pc (P166 with 32mb ram and 2mb graphics card. The death chopper drove me crazy, but it wasn't like I could send the creator a cheque from new zealand back then to buy the full version (plus I was probably 7 or 8 years old)
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