Radar Lock rocks!!!

[birdie3]

What a wicked game. I had been looking for it for a while and NEVER see it on ebay.ca. I found it on the weekend for $1.50 and I must say that I am hooked. Kinda like Solaris but not as impossible to finish. Does anybody agree with me or what?

[Godzilla]

no, i always found it be more like afterburner and other behind the plane shooters of it's ilk. Great game though, and entirely unique in the 2600 library. Heck, even the 7800 doesn't have an afterburner type game, nor does the 5200 that I can recall... Great, fast, responsive gameplay. (I do agree that an initial visual comparison will reveal certain cosmetic similarities to Solaris.)

[+Atarius Maximus]

I've actually never played this game, I don't own a cart version. I'll have to fire up z26 and give it a shot. Sounds pretty cool.

[Tempest]

i always found it be more like afterburner

 

Well you should! Radar Lock was Atari's answer to Afterburner. Not bad give the 2600's limitations.

 

Tempest

[Godzilla]

i always found it be more like afterburner

 

Well you should! Radar Lock was Atari's answer to Afterburner. Not bad given* the 2600's limitations.

 

Tempest

 

did you not read the original message? my reply to the original message was trying, in a more nice, subtle, way to get across the point that you have splattered here on the concrete.

 

(*sp correction courtesy Zilla)

[birdie3]

Yes, they are similar. Whatever dude. I do agree that it seems like Atari's anwer to Sega's Afterburner. I thought that the dynamics of the visual imagery seems to be similar to the Solaris game. I was more trying to say that of the two games, Radar Lock seems a bit easier to play and I actually like that about this game. Does anyone have any tips for playing this game??

[+-^CrossBow^-]

Tips for playing:

 

Shoot just about anything that moves...

 

Avoid Enemy gun fire for high score...

 

[Tempest]

I do agree that it seems like Atari's anwer to Sega's Afterburner. I thought that the dynamics of the visual imagery seems to be similar to the Solaris game

 

That's because they have the same programmer. Doug reused his own Solaris engine (which was really his Last Starfighter engine).

 

Tempest

[Godzilla]

got a lot of mileage out of that engine, didn't he?

[+-^CrossBow^-]

Hey...wouldn't you? Look at Solaris?! Still one of the most visually impressive games on the VCS still! Radar Lock does rock...but now your telling me it has an ending? I just thought it kept continuing on and on...guess i will have to play it more...hehe

 

[birdie3]

There is a guy on the net who tells you how to finish Solaris with maps and everything. He says that you need to reprogram the code so that you have infinite lives in order to finish. I like Solaris but I did not want to spend a decade trying to finish the damn game. That is why I like Radar Lock. You can play one game for 15 to 20 minutes if you are good and that's it. I just don't have that much of an attention span to last for a game like Solaris. Is there an end to Radar Lock?