Doodley-doo, doodley-doo, doodley-doo
Flashback: Susan sitting at the Commodore 64. She inserts this month's LoadStar Magazine disk and types the letters that will allow her to descend into gaming nirvana.
load "star" ,8,1
Yeah, sure there was all sorts of other stuff on the disks but, come on, I was just there for the games. On this month's disk is a game that will keep her in hours of near drooling arcade-like fascination. Qix. The original Qix, with the crazy laser line pattern representing Qix.
Today: I was reading WWdN and he linked over to an review he did on some lame-o knock off of Donkey Kong. And there, at the bottom in a seemingly innocent section about all the other games that the makers have ripped off was the line "Out Line (Qix + Amidar)."
The memories flooded back. The triumph of that one time where you trapped Qix in about three seconds and claimed 95% of the board with a near miraculous corner trap. The frustration of being trapped between two sparx and Qix. Oh, the agony of getting to 74% claimed...and the fuse catching up to you.
So naturally I googled it and found a version and played it for like 2 hours! Heaven.
load "star" ,8,1
Yeah, sure there was all sorts of other stuff on the disks but, come on, I was just there for the games. On this month's disk is a game that will keep her in hours of near drooling arcade-like fascination. Qix. The original Qix, with the crazy laser line pattern representing Qix.
Today: I was reading WWdN and he linked over to an review he did on some lame-o knock off of Donkey Kong. And there, at the bottom in a seemingly innocent section about all the other games that the makers have ripped off was the line "Out Line (Qix + Amidar)."
The memories flooded back. The triumph of that one time where you trapped Qix in about three seconds and claimed 95% of the board with a near miraculous corner trap. The frustration of being trapped between two sparx and Qix. Oh, the agony of getting to 74% claimed...and the fuse catching up to you.
So naturally I googled it and found a version and played it for like 2 hours! Heaven.
Labels: Games
posted by Susan at 1:32 PM
2 Comments:
You are a video game wizard! That game is too hard for mere mortals.
It's killing me, I can't remember the name of my all-time favorite C128 game. I can say that Tapper was a ton of fun (and the last PC game that I had which was in cartridge format).
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