Moon Patrol - A new Path Game

[phuzzed]

I didn't see another post about this in the past, but I could have missed it. My apologies if I did, and I am re-hashing old news.

 

I found this game for the PC, called "Moon Patrol - new path" and spent a good portion of the evening playing it. updated graphics with a up-to-date soundtrack. you can download it here:

 

http://www.shinobis-place.de//Page_neu/index.html

 

Enjoy!

 

Check out the video here:

 

Edited August 17, 2008 by phuzzed

[nonner242]

I didn't see another post about this in the past, but I could have missed it. My apologies if I did, and I am re-hashing old news.

 

I found this game for the PC, called "Moon Patrol - new path" and spent a good portion of the evening playing it. updated graphics with a up-to-date soundtrack. you can download it here:

 

http://www.shinobis-place.de//Page_neu/index.html

 

Enjoy!

Cool!

[darthkur]

That game is awesome. I'm currently downloading the rest of them. Perhaps they'll be just as good.

Thank you very much for posting about it.

 

 

EDIT: WARNING!. I dl'ed the rest of them and as always ran a virus check on them, as I do everything I download. There is two worms located in the Run or Die game. Do NOT download that one. In fact this now makes me afraid that there might be others in the remaining games that are not detectable.

Edited August 17, 2008 by darthkur

[Artlover]

EDIT: WARNING!. I dl'ed the rest of them and as always ran a virus check on them, as I do everything I download. There is two worms located in the Run or Die game. Do NOT download that one. In fact this now makes me afraid that there might be others in the remaining games that are not detectable.

Get a better virus scanner.

 

Just downloaded and scanned Run or Die. Scanned with several, files are clean.

 

Don't trust "positives" from only one virus scanner. There are millions of ways legimiate programs can cause false results, even in good virus scanners. If the results are not repeatable amung many, the results are bulls--t.

[phuzzed]

Yeah, I didn't find any viruses in those files either. But, good note, you should always virus scan any files after you download them from any source.

 

For those who are curious to see the game in action before you download it, check out this You Tube video (this is how I found out about the game).

 

 

I hope everybody else enjoys this game as much as I have. i haven't done jack squat all day!

[darthkur]

EDIT: WARNING!. I dl'ed the rest of them and as always ran a virus check on them, as I do everything I download. There is two worms located in the Run or Die game. Do NOT download that one. In fact this now makes me afraid that there might be others in the remaining games that are not detectable.

Get a better virus scanner.

 

Just downloaded and scanned Run or Die. Scanned with several, files are clean.

 

Don't trust "positives" from only one virus scanner. There are millions of ways legimiate programs can cause false results, even in good virus scanners. If the results are not repeatable amung many, the results are bulls--t.

 

 

Granted, I only utilize one, AVG. The results I got was the detection of " I-Worm/Stration.HCE . I'm no computer guru so I'm not certain just what the particular one is but I just thought it prudent to pass on what I had found.

What other anti-virus programs would you suggest?

[Artlover]

What other anti-virus programs would you suggest?

http://www.avast.com/

 

It's free for home/personal use.

 

It's a pretty full featured app, doesn't use much system resources when running in the background, and automaticly scans everything comming in. Downloads, Email, Webbrowsing, etc.. Configurable scan options, fast.

 

Gives you full controll of what you want to do with any file, email, website script, whatever it finds.

 

It's been my primary anti-virus program for years. Can't think of any time it's given a false result. I rely on it pretty heavily, and trust it a lot.

 

Then I also have Webroot Spysweeper Antivirus that I use as a backup to double check/verify any results from avast if I suspect it might be a false result. It's big, bloated, slow. Mostly reliable, but not something to be left running in the background because it's a massive resource hog.

 

But yeah, if you're only going to run one antivirus program, give Avast a try. It's pretty top notch.

[AtariLeaf]

I'm not a big moon patrol fan but this is a really well made game.

[Jess Ragan]

Looks fairly solid. I'm really digging the Impossible Course... some of the changes look really clever and well implemented. That music is great too; a fitting update to the original. On the downside, the background graphics are dull and have that off-putting mid-1990s CGI look.

[GonzoCV-1]

It looks very nice, but I am always disappointed when a recreation of a game misses key gameplay elements.

 

In this case, as a Moonpatrol junkie, I can tell you there's a problem. in the "real" game, when you move to the right, the scenery speeds up which results in longer jumps. In later stages, you have to take this into account to carefully time jumps between obstacles.

 

I trust he'll address that eventually. Looks great, though.

[+Random Terrain]

What other anti-virus programs would you suggest?

http://www.avast.com/

 

It's free for home/personal use.

 

It's a pretty full featured app, doesn't use much system resources when running in the background, and automaticly scans everything comming in. Downloads, Email, Webbrowsing, etc.. Configurable scan options, fast.

 

Gives you full control of what you want to do with any file, email, website script, whatever it finds.

 

It's been my primary anti-virus program for years. Can't think of any time it's given a false result. I rely on it pretty heavily, and trust it a lot.

I was using AVG until they decided to stop letting us scan individual downloads and instead made us scan the F-ing Internet. I get 100 results per page at Google, so that slowed my searching down to a crawl. If you turn it off, then you have no protection, so I uninstalled AVG. I can't believe they ruined it.

 

I just switched to Avast and I have the Firefox extension called Download Statusbar scan every download using C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashQuick.exe and I'm finally back to normal. Scanning each download is good enough for me. I don't want to scan the freakin' Internet.

[Artlover]

I don't want to scan the freakin' Internet.

Why not, it's not like it takes up many resources or slows anything down noticably. Trust me, first time you visit a website and have Avast popup with a dialoge box about detecting and stopping an embedded script trying to install a keylogger, you'll never turn it off again.

Edited August 18, 2008 by Artlover

[+Random Terrain]

Why not, it's not like it takes up many resources or slows anything down noticably. Trust me, first time you visit a website and have Avast popup with a dialoge box about detecting and stopping an embedded script trying to install a keylogger, you'll never turn it off again.

What Avast is doing is different from what AVG was doing. AVG was scanning every link and page and file it could get its hands on. Slowed down browsing so much that I probably could have driven to the physical location of each web site before they would load on my screen. Goodbye AVG, hello Avast.

[darthkur]

What other anti-virus programs would you suggest?

http://www.avast.com/

 

It's free for home/personal use.

 

It's a pretty full featured app, doesn't use much system resources when running in the background, and automaticly scans everything comming in. Downloads, Email, Webbrowsing, etc.. Configurable scan options, fast.

 

Gives you full controll of what you want to do with any file, email, website script, whatever it finds.

 

It's been my primary anti-virus program for years. Can't think of any time it's given a false result. I rely on it pretty heavily, and trust it a lot.

 

 

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

[Fire Button]

It looks very nice, but I am always disappointed when a recreation of a game misses key gameplay elements.

 

In this case, as a Moonpatrol junkie, I can tell you there's a problem. in the "real" game, when you move to the right, the scenery speeds up which results in longer jumps. In later stages, you have to take this into account to carefully time jumps between obstacles.

 

I trust he'll address that eventually. Looks great, though.

Agree totally. It just doesn't make sense. I speed up all the time, and in the most courses I can't even go under the average time. Or did we miss a key that is really supposed to speed you up?

 

The game seems to be pretty faithful to the original. I like how the wheels bounce with the ground, that's taken care of. The transition from straight road to uphill is actually smooth, as opposed to the classic. And the particle effects (explosions, smoke et cetera) look nice. The level design also very much feels like 'back then'.

 

The steering is, due to the speed issue, not quite in line with the original yet. The worst part for me is where your vehicle explodes, and your wheels bouce away comically - they just seem to hit an invisible ceiling somewhere! That definitely takes some better physics.

 

The graphics are a mixed bag of goods and bads - some objects look cartoonesque, some rendered. For example, the ground is too simple compared to the backgrounds. The vehicle is shiny with very few details, while some of the enemy ships look much more elaborate. That's the trouble with rendering sprites - they take styling as much as hand-drawn sprites do.

 

Let's hope there will be updates, and the smaller issues are taken care of.

[GonzoCV-1]

It looks very nice, but I am always disappointed when a recreation of a game misses key gameplay elements.

 

In this case, as a Moonpatrol junkie, I can tell you there's a problem. in the "real" game, when you move to the right, the scenery speeds up which results in longer jumps. In later stages, you have to take this into account to carefully time jumps between obstacles.

 

I trust he'll address that eventually. Looks great, though.

Agree totally. It just doesn't make sense. I speed up all the time, and in the most courses I can't even go under the average time. Or did we miss a key that is really supposed to speed you up?

 

The game seems to be pretty faithful to the original. I like how the wheels bounce with the ground, that's taken care of. The transition from straight road to uphill is actually smooth, as opposed to the classic. And the particle effects (explosions, smoke et cetera) look nice. The level design also very much feels like 'back then'.

 

The steering is, due to the speed issue, not quite in line with the original yet. The worst part for me is where your vehicle explodes, and your wheels bouce away comically - they just seem to hit an invisible ceiling somewhere! That definitely takes some better physics.

 

The graphics are a mixed bag of goods and bads - some objects look cartoonesque, some rendered. For example, the ground is too simple compared to the backgrounds. The vehicle is shiny with very few details, while some of the enemy ships look much more elaborate. That's the trouble with rendering sprites - they take styling as much as hand-drawn sprites do.

 

Let's hope there will be updates, and the smaller issues are taken care of.

 

Well, he doesn't owe us anything. But I know the type. He's poured a lot of heart and soul into the game, and he won't be satisfied until its perfect. And kudos to him for it.

 

I actually really like it. Its a great game. I just owned a MP machine at one time, and its one of my favorites.