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craptacular - 2011-04-24

i haaated this game. dark, gloomy, horrible pc speaker sounds, and scary for a young child.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-24

The Sound Blaster FM music/sound was actually pretty good, though. Gameplay wasn't so hot and the graphics are pretty terrible.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-24

I don't understand the "scary" part, though, but I've never felt actual fear from a video game.


pastorofmuppets - 2011-04-25

The Xargon music was kind of creepy.


Redlof - 2011-04-24

They try so much with those graphics and accomplish so little.


garcet71283 - 2011-04-25

PC gaming in the early 90s was awesome.
On one hand, PC developers were falling flat on their faces trying to copy popular console games, and on the other, they were making quantum leaps in 3d graphics, gameplay innovation and distribution mediums.


Caminante Nocturno - 2011-04-24

It's a shame the heart next to your life meter doesn't burst like in Primal Rage.


hammsangwich - 2011-04-24

Music is awesome.


Pillager - 2011-04-25

Apogee was awesome.


pastorofmuppets - 2011-04-25

So, since it's crap game week, it might be a good time to ask for help naming a mysterious and half-remembered game from the mid 90s.

If I remember right, it was 3D in the way that Doom was, and you would try to repair the walls in order to get power to flow correctly. The rooms were (completely?) dark. There was a little map in the corner so you could see how you were doing and I think if you fixed a wall it would light up blue on the map.

Man, that describes a thousand games.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-25

I have no idea, but if you have any information on a DOS program called Game Maker that has nothing to do with the well known Windows program of the same name, I'd love to hear it. I got it for my birthday in the early 90s and used it a lot (with questionable results). I still have the full package, but I can't find any mention of it online.


spikestoyiu - 2011-04-25

I also owned a copy of Game Maker, though I never got all that far with it. I believe I saw an ad for it in a gaming magazine and forced my grandmother to buy it for me. I was convinced I had so many killer game ideas rolling around in my pre-teen head.


twinkieafternoon - 2011-04-25

AAAA What was that game called?!!!?


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-25

I got frustrated because the shitty off-brand Sound Blaster clone (BOOM BOARD) in the family's shitty off brand 386 wasn't really compatible, and as a result you'd only get sound maybe once time out of every four times you ran your game. Same with Syndicate.

I still think it's the best old DOS game authoring system I've used.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-25

Incidentally, if anyone's interested I could upload it in a couple of days, I found it in my parents' basement a few years ago.


spikestoyiu - 2011-04-25

I'd check it out, sure.

I don't know how far I ever really got with it. Certainly never accomplished anything even resembling a single level of a game.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-25

Found this, not sure how I never stumbled onto it before:

http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=166424


I'll find my boxed version and upload it when I get home from the holidays.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-25

I did a modest 2-3 level platformer with about 50% original sprites, and then started an overhead action RPG based on Deliverance but got bored with that.

the AI was minimal to nonexistent but the sprite editing was great for the age and price, and you could definitely produce something better than a lot of the Shareware Week exhibits if you took the time.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-25

Oh hey, there's even an RSD Game-Maker wiki now!

http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/index.php?title=Main_Page


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-25

OK, looking at the sample videos on there, this thing wasn't nearly as good as it seemed in 1991 or whenever, but I think a lot of that is down to the sprite editor encouraging reliance on gradients, and the bad scrolling engine.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-25

No need to wait for me, here's someone else's upload of version 3.0 plus some 3rd party games:

http://rapidshare.com/files/355030296/RSD_Game-Maker_3.0.7z

Mine is 2.0 or 2.2 I think, so this is a better option anyhow.

Enjoy!


spikestoyiu - 2011-04-26

Wow, thank you. The Aderack wiki alone should keep me busy for at least the rest of the day.


Old_Zircon - 2011-04-26

He has gameplay videos for every game on the wiki, that alone is enough to kill some time.

Apparently the team who developed this was two brothers from Maine who were in high school and distributed it entirely via BBS and mail order.


pastorofmuppets - 2011-04-26

Good sleuthing. I tried to find it but couldn't.


voodoo_pork - 2011-04-25

Crotch Boomerang: The Revenge


fnoo - 2011-05-26

@Old Zircon You wouldn't still have any of your old Game-Maker games around, would you?


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