Apur-ee.209
net.games
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!davy
Fri Jan 29 10:34:39 1982
video arcade games
For those of you interested in Battle Zone, Atari has another game out
called "Red Baron", which is along the same lines as Battle Zone (3-D
vector graphics, but you are in/shooting at airplanes). It's awfully
hard (for me, anyway) to follow, as you get twisted around upside down,
and the controls are EXTREMELY sensitive.
For those of you interested in Defender, there is a new one out, called
STARGATE - this is the "Super Defender" we've all been waiting for. There's
about twice as much crap to shoot at, and another button ("inviso" - you
disappear except on radar, anything you run into dies). Another nice feature
of it is that you get 3 ships/3 bombs for .25, 7 ships/7 bombs for .50 -
great for learning the game.
A side note- the system administrator here bought his own Battle Zone, and
brought it in to the "HKN Lounge" (they sell Pepsi, etc.) where they took
it apart, sped up the clock, and other fun junk. He finally sold it to a
pizza place, and promptly bought a Red Baron, which he has now sold once
again.
By the way, the "world's record" score on Defender, according to an article
in TIME Mag., is something like 16,683,100 (roughly) gotten by some kid
in Chicago(?) after 16 hours on one quarter. (and I thought my 184,000 was
good!)
--Dave
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