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Ultra cool! Looks like a playable and fun game already... The background graphics look close to the arcade orignal. The 'sprites' are of course out of reach. Not even NES could do them any justice. The C64-version looked terrible (this looks better.) Vic already has a very rudimentary clone - Luv Bu...

I'm very envious ... Track & Field - another genre that never really made it to the Vic. There are lots of simple games in basic (I myself made one with 100m and long jump) but no commercial ones. Misfit, your games are super impressive and whatever genre you take on next, I will surely enjoy th...

I looking forward to the "perfect" version of Centipede, Missile Command or perhaps Joust. Galaxians, Galaga, Atari Sprint, Robotron, or any other real fun arcade game that's possible to do on Vic 20. It's a shame there is no decent top-down racing game like Sprint for Vic, while even ZX8...

There are so many Centipede clones for Vic that it is hard to tell without further details. Besides the two already mentioned there are: A Country Garden, Scorpion (Livewire not Tronix), Minipedes, Atarisoft's official conversion, Gridrunner, Matrix (aka Attack of the mutant camels), Mushroom Alley ...

Anyway, this is the game I was talking about. Motocross. Ahhh, pure Basic. Thanks. I don't know which one is best/worst. Motorcross has eight button control with eight steering directions. Formula 1 has two button rotational control but only four steering direction. I am amazed of how good Auto Rac...

I suppose Radar Rat Race and the newly discovered forerunner Rally-X don't quite fit your description, although they are top-down? I guess what I am looking for is smooth rotational control and hence the Omega Race and Moons of Jupiter analogy. So no, Rally-X is not what I am looking for, though I ...

Thank you! Indeed a Sprint 2 clone albeit a very bad one with only four direction control (i.e., no rotation) and jerky movements. Come to think of it - there is a rather good top-down racing game called Death Race. As I remember, it scrolls vertically and does not have rotational control but at lea...

To my knowledge, there are no top-down racing games to Vic but I still have to ask, just in case... Perhaps there is some obscure american tape game that has passed me by?

I know there are some crappy straight-road-top-down racing games, like Race and Race Fun but

The Copyright of Save Mary! is from 1990 and it was apparently never officially released(?) so it is safe to say that it was not the inspiration for Bricks. There are also some differences: you don't push the blocks but control the crane from which the block fall. I haven't played it but it seems to...

Jeff-20 wrote:I am pretty sure that Bricks is a clone of an Atari 2600 game called Save Mary (?)

I vaguely remember reading about that game. It's a late and supposedly very good 2600 game, isn't it? I'll check it up.

What was the first game that have you rearranging falling blocks? Tetris? Well, there is a Vic game, Bricks, from 1984 (before Tetris) in which you do this. Check this screen shot from Arma's Vic page: http://www.timsplace.plus.com/tapescans/screenshots/bricks.png Bricks is very different from Tetri...

I was playing Tooth Invaders the other day. I can't really think of any other game quite like that (although Activision's Plaque Attack is strangely similar). I'm not sure which came first. It's sort of a unique game in some ways. On the other hand, it can also been viewed as a standard chased-by-t...

Mayhem wrote:Lazer Zone and Hellgate using 2 plane and 4 plane shooting action?

Yeah, I actually had those in my mind! Metagalactic Llamas is another one in the same vein.

I believe Lunar Leeper (Sierra Online) was first designed for the VIC and then (poorly) adapted to the Commodore 64. I don't know of any other platforms on which it exists. On the VIC, I feel it is a fantastic game. Lunar Leeper is one of several US game that I have missed out on so I quickly check...

Is there room for any Vic games in the history of gaming? Most games were clones, derivatives or proper conversions of games that originated on other formats. Did any Vic game actually contribute with anything of substance? Did any game mechanics see the light of day on a Vic?