(03-24-2023, 11:18 PM)mnrvovrfc Wrote:(03-24-2023, 11:14 PM)madscijr Wrote: For Scramble, I started playing with decomposing "sprite-sheet.png", breaking it out into layers in paint.net, to change some colors.
As fun as Scramble can be, I was never a big fan of the colors - like those ugly purple and green explosions - yuck! LoL.
I don't know if you've played Phoenix. After playing Galaga on machine, the Phoenix one was a bit sad to me... only buttons to move the spaceship left and right. I thought that was the only thing bad. The sound effects were the ones that yucked! Especially when trying to take down the "mother ship", couldn't stand it. Otherwise I think that Phoenix was quite a good one for its time. There was even a television ad about it, LOL featured a guy trying to eat a turkey sandwich during off time at a construction site.
I grew up in the 80s, I had an Atari, so OF COURSE i know Phoenix.
I remember that TV ad well! "For every chicken sandwich! The birds are back, and they're fighting mad!"
I haven't seen that ad since Reagan was in the White House, and I can still quote it!
That was for the Atari 2600 version - which was a decent game for the Atari VCS back in 1983, I played it many times.
But it's the original arcade version from 1980 that you want to play! Download MAME and grab the game ROM and enjoy.
Yes, you can only move side to side, but that was the case for all those Space Invaders type games (including Galaga, which people still play even today). I think Gorf may have allowed you to move vertically, that was an unusual game, where each level was a different mini-game.
I think Phoenix may have the distinction of being the first game where you have to destroy a "boss" at the end of each level - in this case a mother ship that you have to shoot through to get the alien pilot.
I guess you had to be alive back then to appreciate the simpler games, they are definitely primitive compared to what we have today, but back then it they were all we had, and were quite exciting! :-D
These days, I don't have the time, $, or the extra cycles to spend on modern video games. I'm not even interested, it's too much work. Give me something simple I can sit down with for a few minutes and forget about my problems while I zap some aliens or run through a maze, and I'll be happy.
That's one of the great things about QB64/PE - it makes it easy to create your own little adventures on the computer to share with your friends. I would rather spend time making games than playing them, but I have always been interested in that kind of thing.
What other games would you like to see done in QB64?