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  2. Posted · Edited by joeybastard

    Tunnel Runner-Great colors and the monsters marching at you chomping is just cool looking

     

    Demon Attack-Great colors and the "whoosh-in" effect when the enemies appear is one of my all time favorite video game effects.

     

    Mountain King - I love the simple minimalist look.

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    I was disappointed by quite a few but here's two:

     

    Miner 2049er - The VCS version is god awful. Made especially worse because my first exposure to the game was the CV version. I know many people think the CV version is inferior to the A8's or the 5200 but i prefer it.

     

    James Bond - Why did the ads have a cool climbing a side of a train screen and the game was a bad version of Moon Patrol? The game itself is OPK but I wanted to run around shooting guys and nailing chicks with suggestive names.

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    I read this in Bruce Consolazio's review at the Atari Age store for the CV Spectar:

    The problem is the Spectar Smuggler. These enemies appear along with the regular Ramcars, and they can shoot. They appear one at a time. The problem is, if you eliminate all of the Ramcars but do not gather all of the energy stars, it is not difficult to "hunt" for the Smugglers, usually by waiting for them, in order to ambush them. With this method, I was able to rack up over 20ꯠ points on the first screen before finishing up.

     

    Recently, the arcade ROM has been made available for free at http://www.mamedev.org. In the version of the ROM I have been playing in MAME, the stage ends when the ramcars are eliminated, as well as when the energy stars are collected. According to this comment from the review, it sounds like the stages keep going in the CV when the ramcars are destroyed, allowing for the Smuggler's to be milked. Is this accurate, or has this been fixed?

     

    The stage does end when the ramcars are all eliminated. I think the reviewer is mistaken.

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    Scott does great work. I'm honored he let me do the art for the boxes/manuals for his games. I have to admit though it breaks my heart to see Frantic lie around unfinished. I'm biased about the game for obvious reasons but I think it would have knocked people's socks off if had been finished.

     

    Oh well, Three Cheers for Scott Huggins, good CV programmer and a hell of a nice guy.

  7. Posted

    Scott... Scott Huggins? Could it be the long awaited Frantic!??? His own take on the Berzerk/Frenzy style of game? If he completes that one... wow! This is a banenr year for the Colecovision! It'll rival 1982 and 1983!!

     

    I would be surprised if it were Frantic. He and I were working on that for a while but the last time Scott and I talked about it, he seemed to have lost interest in that one. Shame too, I really enjoyed designing the graphics and levels for that but ultimately it's up to him since he's doing the hard part of actually coding it.

     

    I could be wrong though, maybe he revisited the idea.

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    ND is quick fun. It's not the kind of game you're going to play for 3 hours but for a a few rounds to cleanse the palatte between other games, it's great.

     

    I've noticed that it seems to be one of the better remembered games too. People always want to give it a go when they are in my gameroom.

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    But then there are games that I think sound *REALLY* obnoxious. Tower Toppler comes to mind with the shrill music and the obnoxious ball bouncing.

     

    I was playing that last night. I hadn't played it in like a year so I forgot how awful the sound is on that game. I like the game and I like that I can choose what level to start at but man that music is like chewing on tinfoil.

  15. Posted · Edited by joeybastard

    I don't think that's a glitch. I'm pretty sure the CV and 5200 versions do the same thng if your inventory is filled. It's been awhile since I fired up MR on any system but I think that's just the way the game is.

  20. Posted

    Well how much did it cost you then ??

     

    $45 :) which is great because it's helping to keep the costs down on this new machine I'm building so I can take bigger freelance gigs at home until I find full time work again.

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    Does anybody have a sealed, non activated copy of XP for sale? I don't care if it's Home or Pro. I'm building a new machine and want to start totally fresh rather than installing my old drive. I can get it from New Egg for about $95 shipped so I'm looking for a deal cheaper than that if possible :)

     

    Thanks!

  23. Posted

    I have about half of the commercially released games and of those I probably only play a quarter of them. Unfortunately much of what I have is crap like Karateka and Fight Night. The games I do play on it I really like although I admit, I always play with the sound off. I can't take the 7800 music and sounds.

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