[Intellivision GOTY 2021 (category discussion)]

As I play through the game, I am continually gobsmacked by the tunes (and other assets) in Legend of Ghatlan Thur (sic).

 

It’s by Kai magazine. 

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My brother-in-law came over today and saw me running and jumping around.

 

His first words were “whoa is that some kind of Shinobi?!”

 

i told him no, actually it’s so-and-so. Then I pulled up the inventory and showed him how there’s all these items to find and many of them allow access to new areas.

 

He made the metroidvania connection right away!

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Kai_Magazine said:

Really? ^_^;

The problem is this game is designed on a very particular way in order to achieve these results.

I did not mix tile-based objets with sprite objects like I did in other games for performance and limitation reasons. All items, objects and characters you interact in the game are sprites.

While it would be tecnically possible to do it (altough I think I don't have any variables left for that), it would be an incredible amount of work, re-design, possible new bugs and deffinitivally performance issues.

Since that would only be a gymmick with any real utility, and it actually could potentially even break the game (the apples would appear inmediatelly if you scrolled their original location far enough out of the screen and then you came back since I can't store their status due to lack of free variables), I hope you understand that I will not be implementing that, sorry...

No I totally understand! Well, not totally. ?

 

But I understand enough about what you said. For example, sounds like the fruit would have to respawn in a similar way as do the normal enemies.

So if it was of benefit to the player to slash the fruit, it’d be too tempting and too easy to cheese the system.

 

Still  want to slash that fruit, though!
 

??
 

edit: on that topic, I have really appreciated the pacing and gameplay balancing of this experience. 

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Thanks, friend. This has been some of the best video gaming I’ve had in recent memory.

 

i have one request for a v2… I REALLY want to be able to slash the fruit in the trees.

 

Is that a possibility? I don’t even need to get points. If it made a sound and did something when slashed, that’d be reward enough. 
 

If it also gave +1 HP back, I wouldn’t be mad.

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12 minutes ago, Kai_Magazine said:

If the desert is still too hard, try finding the second magic sword in one of the temples.

I definitely want to find the master sword.

 

Can that be obtained before the keys?

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Fu’k Yes

 

Snowy Town is the best town, btw. Love the shopping there.

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Master of puppets. Yes!

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4 minutes ago, rietveld said:

I mean that the music is way more than I would expect an Intellivision to be able to produce by itself. The fact that it plays continuously in the background while the game scrolls along is pretty impressive 

Just got done flashing my copy to my cart. About to test it out in between commercials on SNL.

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On 11/18/2021 at 3:17 AM, Kai_Magazine said:

Exelent!

It looks like you are ready to find the 2 other towns and the Fu'kin helmet.

How many towns are there total? I thought only 3... I've found two so far. I need that helmet. I see platforms taunting me just out of reach.

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PM sent - where can i get Melody Runner for Intellivision?

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5 hours ago, desiv said:

Should be able to do some more testing now.

Got my C-30s.  ?

Unfortunately, instead of the 6 C-30s I thought I had ordered on e-bay, it was actually 3 C-30s and 3 C-60s.  ;-(

The description in the auction said 6 C-30s, but there was a picture in the auction page, and when I looked again at the pic, I could see that there were 3 C-60s in there.  So my bad for not really looking at the pic...  This is e-bay.  I know better than that. 

Either way, at least now I have some new (NOS) C-30s to test with...

 

Not sure what I'll do with the C-60s.  Maybe my Vic-20 Datasette is less picky about tapes.

(Tho I have a Pi1541 for him, so not sure I'll use the tapes there much...)

Please keep this thread updated.

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On 7/19/2021 at 11:28 PM, rietveld said:

The game is OK but the fact that it runs with the musical track in the background makes it GREAT

What do you mean by that? Is the gameplay impacted by the song?

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7 hours ago, jltursan said:

Have you seen videos like this?. The BBS seems to be available... ?

Yes! This is what I’m trying to achieve. First roadblock is getting the modem tape program to load.

 

 

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November 8th i didn’t know what the first ring did. Now look at me.

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Come on. It’s like high score club, but the prize is a text based bulletin board leftover from the before times.

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9 hours ago, intvdave said:

Over 1,000 Flash carts have sold!!??!!. I was kind of hoping everyone that cares about playing Intellivision games would have one. Maybe the collector market is larger than players?

That’s all? I’m a purist, so I prefer playing on the original hardware, but I don’t have CIB money all the time. 
 

So for me, the LTO Flash opens up new gameplay possibilities.

 

Plus when I had to vacation at the beach last summer, it was easy to bring my intellivision and a ton of games without bringing a ton of games!

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The number counter belt should not impact the other functions of the tape drive, right?

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I don’t have a tape that size to test. But I just rewound a C-20 on this random, yet, era-appropriate cassette deck. 
 

I definitely noticed a difference as the tape spooled from one side to the other.

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All suggestions welcome. 

 

 

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I found the axes!!!!

 

 

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That facial animation is cool. Even watching it today, that’s an appealing aesthetic to my eyes and ears.

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Still want!

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Just got to the sparkly temple of wildor!

 

Awesome graphics and music here. 

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1 minute ago, Kai_Magazine said:

I would recommend that you first find the throwing knives (at the snowy area, west of the first town, which now you can travel to running with the boots and jumping).

Once you have the knives (and you increase the maximum amount you can carry in the first town) find the throwing axes and the first magic sword.

You must also find the relic that opens the green magic doors. Then you can travel east of the first town and get to the desert town, upgrade your axes, listen to the villagers who will give you clues, and then you can travel to the snowy area, you will have to go through a big underground temple and you will reach the surface again. Travel to the west a bit more and you will find the third village. Listen to the villagers for clues and from there you can go find the Fu'kin helmet.

Once you have the helmet you can perform a double jump. Then you can explore most of the world map and find all rings, books, keys etc.

Take a look at the manual to see how to use certain relics such as the teleporter, etc.

 

Thank you! Sounds like I have lots to do. I do have a bunch of knives, but no axes. No sword upgrade.

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I’m having trouble getting to the next town. I have the boots, a ring, and a blue book which I just found last night.