part 8

[Stone]

Great stuff, as always

Stone

[Zoot]

I began on a Sunday, .........

As the weekend came around again I was finishing off the details of the game...........

separating the gameplay up into twenty successively difficult levels

Is that, like, one whole week?

I thought that there were 32 or 33 levels (or therabouts)?

Was that the C64 version, or is my memory failing?

Very nice read.

[PVB]

I began on a Sunday, .........

As the weekend came around again I was finishing off the details of the game...........

separating the gameplay up into twenty successively difficult levels

Is that, like, one whole week?

I thought that there were 32 or 33 levels (or therabouts)?

Was that the C64 version, or is my memory failing?

Very nice read.

Do keep up at the back.

The C64 wasn't out over here then, as he says in the text.

That Gridrunner was for the Vic 20.

[rowan]

And the rest, as they say, was history

[Governmentyard]

And the rest, as they say, was history

Write about it anyway though - I reckon we all just can't wait until you are writing about us lot

[Peet]

[Zoot]

I began on a Sunday, .........

As the weekend came around again I was finishing off the details of the game...........

separating the gameplay up into twenty successively difficult levels

Is that, like, one whole week?

I thought that there were 32 or 33 levels (or therabouts)?

Was that the C64 version, or is my memory failing?

Very nice read.

Do keep up at the back.

The C64 wasn't out over here then, as he says in the text.

That Gridrunner was for the Vic 20.

Nah, you perfectly pedantic person

I *DID* read it, but I thought that there were about 32 levels anyways, but couldn't remember if it was 32 levels on the later C64 version, or on the VIC too. Or, if there never were more than 20 and I just can't remember

[TwistedScrote]

Fascinating as always... It's amazing to read about the steps Jeff was making at the time that I was just starting out as a games player. I'm wallowing in nostalgia right now thinking about the old games and the now dead micros... I was reading an old magazine scan and the amount of home micros around back then were staggering.

Oric
Dragon
Memotech
Sharp
Mattel Aquarus
BBC A+B
Acorn Atom
Spectrum
ZX81
Vic-20
C64
Jupiter Ace
Amstrad
Einstein
MSX
Sam Coupe (eventually!)


Hindsight is a wonderful thing but really... couldnt anyone see that such a huge amount of micros would have meant most would die because of no software?

It's also staggering the amount of software houses that died. I'm struggling to think of ANY names from 82 are still around apart from Llamasoft. Who would of bet on llamasoft still going strong after all this time? When you think of the huge software producers during that time that have disappeared or been taken over?

Christ almighty!

Ocean
Uk Gold
Imagine
Acclaim
Ariolasoft
Atari etc

On the one hand while its a amesome achievment to still be releasing software for us 'softies' nearly a quarter of a century on.. How depressing that so many others bit the dust.

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Superior Software are still going!

http://www.superiorinteractive.com/



Bless 'em

[Zoot]

Oric
Dragon
Memotech
Sharp
Mattel Aquarus
BBC A+B
Acorn Atom
Spectrum
ZX81
Vic-20
C64
Jupiter Ace
Amstrad
Einstein
MSX
Sam Coupe (eventually!)

Yeah, but not all were simultaneous. The C64 replaced the VIC20, the Spectrum replaced the ZX81 etc, but, yeah, there were a lot, weren't they?

[Flabio]

I'm struggling to think of ANY names from 82 are still around apart from Llamasoft.

EA and Activision are still around of course. But there's not many others.

[TwistedScrote]

Flabio wrote

EA and Activision are still around of course. But there's not many others.

Ahhhhhh activison yes.. but I thought EA was around 84? Scarey just how few have made it last this long!

2 Corporations and 1 hairy ox.....

[AlbertKatraz]

Superior Software are still going!

http://www.superiorinteractive.com/



Bless 'em

Interceptor Micros certainly aren't though.

So what came first?

Repton or Boulderdash?

[TwistedScrote]

Boulderdash?


IIRC First Star only seemed to release new versions! That was their whole portfolio!

[AlbertKatraz]

Boulderdash?


IIRC First Star only seemed to release new versions! That was their whole portfolio!

They did Spy Vs. Spy as well.