timothee
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Hi there,
I managed to identify most of the games I used to play in my cpc6128 days by browsing various cpc archive and screenshot sites, but there are a few I cannot find again . These were clearly not the best of the platform, but I did spend significant amount of time on them. If anyone has some clue on these, I'd much appreciate it:
These could be France-specific, I'm not sure.
I hope some of you were playing these too!
Thanks in advance,
Tim.
I managed to identify most of the games I used to play in my cpc6128 days by browsing various cpc archive and screenshot sites, but there are a few I cannot find again . These were clearly not the best of the platform, but I did spend significant amount of time on them. If anyone has some clue on these, I'd much appreciate it:
- Snake-like game: you're a snake in a maze and you grow as you eat stuff, you must not get stuck and touch your tail. once you've eaten everything, the game starts again in the same maze (lame, I know). I can't remember much except that the snake body was made of distinct unit parts which were literally '@' characters (i.e. the snake was not drawn continuously like in Python); you could not stop, once the game stars the snake is in continuous motion; the game was significantly harder than the description may suggest because the snake was quick and the maze was small.
- Pengo clone: typical game where you're a penguin and must line up 3 diamonds to win, there are blocks you can push to kill the various bears on the stage. I know there are tons of pengo's clones out-there, but some characteristics of one I am looking for are that, the game looks like the action takes place is on the ice sheet (not inside a cave) and the blocks look like ice cubes, not stones; the bears do not re-spawn once you kill them. The enemies are really bears, not fluffy monsters, or whatever. the bears become significantly smarter and more aggressive at the levels progress. The graphics were quite nice.
- plane game: this game is extremely basic, you see a side view of a city with buildings (super blocky). All buildings have the exact same width and are of different height. The screen does not scroll, instead you are a plane which start at the top of the screen, and flies across the screen, above the city. At each pass, the plane's altitude decreases, getting ever closer to the buildings. At each pass, you may drop bombs (with space bar, which is the unique control of the game), one at a time, which, if it falls on a building will destroy a unit of height of that building. You must destroy all buildings such that the plane can land on the ground. Speed of the plane increases at each level, making it hard to aim when/where to drop a bomb. The bomb's width is the same as the buildings.
These could be France-specific, I'm not sure.
I hope some of you were playing these too!
Thanks in advance,
Tim.
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