In DosBox on my Mac it's run wonderfully. Maybe you should try downloading the patched version online? I've read that the initial version was pretty buggy but I think I didn't get this until the patched version was released (in 1995). I remember worrying about whether it would run in Windows 95, and having to tweak the app's settings to get it to work right. (You have to do the same in DosBox now, kicking up the # of cycles the window is permitted to emulated, o/w it runs very slowly).
But I have Fang! And Warrax! And they're leveling! I'm holding off on winning this game just to get Fang up to the point where he can crush a great wyrm in a single hit.
― Euler, Friday, 2 October 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
This is my stock answer for this kind of thread on every video game board/thread, and I may have already mentioned it on ILX before but it's RIGHT dammit so I'm going to do it again.
Rocket Jockey.
Does no one else remember this? Retro-50s PC "sports" game with guys strapped to rocket engines that you could barely steer and had to turn by firing grappling cables at poles and releasing them? It was GLORIOUS, with racing, soccer, and best of all "war" where you were just tossed into a ring filled with mines and poles to string cables from to try and clothesline your oppenents off their rockets. It had a soundtrack by Dick Dale! I am firmly convinced that an HD remake of this on XBLA/PSN/Steam/whatever would be the the best possible thing that could ever happen.
― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Um, on every video game board. Whatever. No sleep, can't write.
Still: ROCKETS. SURF MUSIC. YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE.
― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
reviving just to say that El Tomboto's remark about Arctic Fox upthread has me in stitches tonight, for some reason.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 13 February 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
Deadly Towers
― Jeff, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
The Zombies Ate My Neighbors
― polyphonic, Friday, 17 February 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Rock_Star_Ate_My_Hamster_cover.jpg
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 17 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
BLASTER MASTER
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Code Masters can eat a hamster IMO
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
xp forks, there's a wiiware reboot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSbslfm3aoE
― thomasintrouble, Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Shiiiiit, I'd like to play that. Blaster Master is a great candidate for a reboot because the basic concept is AWESOME but the actual game lets it down by being too fucking hard in this old-school way where I only saw like three levels of it, and not for lack of trying.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
same here, i liked it a lot but could never get very far. for those that did - did it kind of have a metrovania feel where you would gradually unlock new abilities and areas of the map, or was it more linear?
― tmi but (Z S), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
neat; cosine on the metroidvania vibewish i could bring myself to play the wii but my eyes have adjusted to HD to the point where I can't play standard def anymore/first world gamer problems
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 February 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link