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- Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:35 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Scramble
- Replies: 9
- Views: 969
Retro Gaming Spotlight: Scramble
https://www.retrogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/scramblepng.png Scramble, a horizontal-scroll shooter released back in 1981, was the first of its kind. Specifically, it is the arcade world’s introduction to forced scrolling - the game itself forced progression through a map, making players co...
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:03 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Starcade
- Replies: 2
- Views: 333
Retro Gaming Spotlight: Starcade
http://www.retrogamenetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sc7.png For this week’s spotlight, we’re doing something a bit different. We want to talk about a show that brought competitive gaming to a television audience for the first time. Starcade was a game show that pitted contestants against eac...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:34 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Space Harrier
- Replies: 0
- Views: 426
Retro Gaming Spotlight: Space Harrier
https://www.retrogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/spaceharrier.jpg Released originally back in late 1985, Space Harrier is a third-person shooter set in a colorful fantasy world. The main character, known only as the Harrier, moves around via jetpack while confronting a host of enemies - ‘enemi...
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 1:34 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Battlezone
- Replies: 0
- Views: 296
Retro Gaming Spotlight: Battlezone
https://www.retrogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/battlezone.gif Originally released back in 1980, Battlezone is a tank combat game played in the style of a first-person shooter. Players ride around in a tank on a flat plane that featured a horizon lined with mountains, a crescent moon, indestr...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:04 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
- Replies: 11
- Views: 962
Re: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
The directional mechanics always got the best of me in Asteroids. For someone of middling reflexes at 10 (reflexes that seemed, somehow, to regress with age. Go figure), it was...challenging. That's it! Once I'd left the middle of the screen I ended up thrusting every 2 seconds causing me to go 5 m...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:19 am
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
- Replies: 11
- Views: 962
Re: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
The directional mechanics always got the best of me in Asteroids. For someone of middling reflexes at 10 (reflexes that seemed, somehow, to regress with age. Go figure), it was...challenging.
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 5:03 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Gauntlet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 836
Retro Gaming Spotlight: Gauntlet
https://www.retrogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gauntletlow.png Gauntlet is a hack-and-slash classic that turned the concept of a dungeon into a chance for multiplayer mayhem. In fact, it was originally called Dungeons, debuting back in 1985 as an arcade game from Atari. Gauntlet was designed...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:59 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
- Replies: 11
- Views: 962
Re: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
Aren't you going to say hi to everyone MMohammed? I noticed you pop up as a moderator and thought it was just another silent name at the top of each section as usual! But you are here, posting. So, who are you. Are you actually in the UK or are we still being looked after from Trumpsville? What are...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:35 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
- Replies: 11
- Views: 962
Re: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
Aren't you going to say hi to everyone MMohammed? I noticed you pop up as a moderator and thought it was just another silent name at the top of each section as usual! But you are here, posting. So, who are you. Are you actually in the UK or are we still being looked after from Trumpsville? What are...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 10:33 am
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
- Replies: 11
- Views: 962
Retro Gaming Spotlight: Asteroids
https://www.retrogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/asteroids.gif There aren’t too many conversations about retro games that can survive without at least mentioning Asteroids. Released originally back in 1979, this Atari classic was designed by Lyle Rains, Dominic Walsh, and Ed Logg. It took cons...