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When you say "classic arcade games" we're talking on modern hardware, right...? Hi. For me it is modern hardware but theory and design can extend to any platform I guess. I should probably have termed it "in the style of classic arcade games". Ah, it's not really the same thing at all no... designi...

I have a site, www.8bitrocket.com where I discuss retro games, and creating them in Flash. My first retro game was an Asteroids variant called Retro Blaster. It has extra weapons, bosses, cheat codes, etc. My next game is a Pacman style game along the same lines. I like to take the early 80's games...

Is anybody here geeky enough to enjoy the theory of designing and developing their own classic arcade games. Or just simple games in general? I'm very keen to start up a newsletter/group with input from people who share my passion for the theory and development of arcade games ! The purpose of the ...

Are you using any special library to make your games? Hi Jeff. I think it's pretty special ;) But no. I just created a framework from the ground up that allowed me to create, move and destroy sprites whilst accepting user input and firing missiles etc. It's a bit more than that but essentially it's...

Is anybody here geeky enough to enjoy the theory of designing and developing their own classic arcade games. Or just simple games in general? I'm very keen to start up a newsletter/group with input from people who share my passion for the theory and development of arcade games ! The purpose of the g...

how the f*** did fat frank get man of the match??? big pete was by far the best england player on that disgrace of a pitch. but then again does anyone really care, roll on saturday and back to the premiership :D Too right. 3 points at home to Reading will do nicely ;) To hell with international foo...

Hey, you live in my town :shock: I never met a fellow forum person from my town ! Congratulations :D Wishing you have a healthy pregnancy and trouble free birth ;) Err... which town? Winsford, Crewe or Erdington?!? I'm stuck somewhere inbetween. Regards, Shaun. The one that is somewhat more Polish ...

Hey, you live in my town
I never met a fellow forum person from my town !

Congratulations

Wishing you have a healthy pregnancy and trouble free birth

Recreating the mix of fierce contest http://s11.invisionfree.com/RetroLeague/index.php?act=idx can help out with that bit. Or if you're really good there's the LLama League, as well as a few others. Or you could just start chasing Twin Galaxies scores. We've beaten a few of those in the League :D L...

Mame.net Ultimarc.co.uk And B&Q. Couple of hundred quid and a weekends work and you can have your own arcade at home.....now you couldn't do that in the 80's. Playing the games isn't the problem. Recreating the mix of fierce contest, grubby yet enthusiastic audience and genuine excitement because y...

I still remember hearing the electronic wind up of Defender for the first time as I trampled through the sh1te and across the cables at the edge of the fair. I used to love the fair. When I actually got to see the game itself I was mesmerised by the lasers. But Defender was for men with balls. Big m...

Isn't this just Prince of Persia a bit further down the road? They both have swordfighting and climbing, but that's where the similarities end. They are very different games, and it's pretty much a different experience altogether, compared to any game. In other words, no, they're totally different ...

Isn't this just Prince of Persia a bit further down the road?

Looks nice but then most modern games look nice. It's probably pretty hard not to make a nice looking game these days with an army of artists and GPU power gone mad!

Will look to play it once I get tired of my Lynx
Which won't happen.

Been really into the old 8-bit micro's recently, have got out the old speccy 128 with the heatsink and also my Oric 1 and had a whale of a time on Manic Miner etc. Anyhow bought a Dragon 32 set up off ebay that arrived today as it was one of those systems that I only had a few goes on around mates ...

Gave it a go. All the rings return when u die! Credit to anoyne who does this kind of thing though - maybe the AI needs a bit of improvemnt. My websites crap as I still haven't finished learning Dreamweaver yet. As you can tell by my avatar I'm a massive Atari XL fan! Hi, thanks for the comments. I...