There's an old VIC 20 game I vaguely remember from 1985-1986, but which I never found later online in any games collections. I don't know if it was a commercial game or a type-in listing in a magazine or a book. I copied it from friend.
Here's everything I can remember - Do you recognize the game and do you know if it's available somewhere?
- It was named Galactica (possibly renamed if it was a type-in game)
- Border color was dark blue and the screen was black
- White 1 character objects: Player ship, enemy ship, asteroid
- The game was written in basic, but there was a machine code subroutine, which moved the asteroids
- Asteroids moved downwards diagonally and didn't care about screen left/right bounds (so an asteroid reaching the other border appeared on the other side)
- Keys: Y J G B
- Enemy ship was something like this:
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- Player ship was something like this:
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- I think there was also a boss enemy ship something like this:
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- Game play: Shooting the enemy ships and avoiding asteroids
- There was a constant background drone with a low, 'chorusing' sound on two channels, something like poke36878,3:poke36874,129:poke36875,128
- The game was for unexpanded VIC 20
Any tips welcome It would be nice to see the game again.
Galactica - Can you find this old game?
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Re: Galactica - Can you find this old game?
Seems similar to Terminal's Meteor Blaster, but the graphics doesn't match your description. Sorry, hope someone else will be able to help you!
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Re: Galactica - Can you find this old game?
There's a Galactica on Zimmers, is that the game?
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ ... nexpanded/
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ ... nexpanded/
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Re: Galactica - Can you find this old game?
It's not either one of those two. A mystery game.