Whenever I go to an arcade now-a-days (yes, I'm going to post about video games again LM) I always end up in the "classic games" section. But I never play them. Sometimes just looking at Donkey Kong or Defender is enough to satiate whatever nostalgic nonsense I was craving, but mostly its because they don't have the games I want. I don't want to play Pacman, I want to play the crazy trackball football game with X's and O's that made your arm hurt. I want to play Zaxxon and the Red Barron, not centipede or Galaxia. What I really want to play is the above game that I have poorly drawn from memory and can't remember the name of. You were the triangle space ship that bounced off the walls, but I can't really remember what the bad guys looked like. You had a fire button and a knob that you could turn to change your direction and a thrust button. It was similar to but much better than asteroids, and a contemporary. If anyone remembers it let me know.
UPDATE: I FOUND IT! Spent way too long looking on KLOV but it was there! . It's called Omega Race and it's the only vector game by Midway - that's part of the reason it was so hard to find because I was assuming it was Atari who seems to have made most of the vector games. The other tricky thing was that the game is not a race, it's more like asteroids. Maybe they mean a race of peoples called "Omega". My drawings turned out to be pretty good. Now I have to find one on ebay
that would probably be spacewar, or a variant of it. I remember the stand-up console version- it pre-dated pong (really!) and was the coolest thing I had ever seen up to that point in my life. There's a java version here:
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/
and some history here:
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/
Me, I've been playing a lot of pong lately.
Nope, post space war. It definetly had the area in the center you coundn't go into and the animation was very smooth.
how about star castle?
That's not it either, but I'm really starting to get into this. Star castle brings me back.
this page does have the Atari Football game I was talking about. See, I'm not all crazy.
Not this?
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=8929
I do remember that football game now that I've seen a picture of it. Wow. I never played it though, cause I had no idea (still don't) of how football works.
One thing I learned from klov.com is that there was a game called "nebulous bee".
Quilts light as clouds.
Rob.- I'm pretty sure it was only 1 player, but KLOV is a great site. I've been over there looking for it myself.
M.Jean - How's that new medication working out?
much of the gameplay involved bouncing off the walls and shooting at the same time. You had to clear all the aliens in a certain time limit.
The outcome of nebulous bees.
Joester, congrats on finding the game. I'm shocked.
by the way M. Jean, no cryptic crossword crosstalk allowed.
Welcome back Sally, good luck building your audience base back up. I'll be looking forward to the spelling improving too.
nice work joe
It’s more than cryptania or a lame joke. Think of all those distaff ancestors, their creaky skeletons lubricated by some afterlife ungent (maybe that explains the cream cheese that dimwit angel keeps advertising), making these billowing evanescent quilts and laughing (laughing!) while they work, instead of perching gingerly on their childbirth-bludgeoned crotches, biting thread, and carping.
And don’t say I’m not following the thread. Wasn’t me that said nebulous bee in the first place.
Good work Sally. I always thought "let sleeping dogs lie" was overated. Go on and poke that dog. What's the worst that could happen? It's not like a phrase such as "Childbirth-bludgeoned crotches" will keep you awake at night.
Omega Race was my favorite game, I loved the hissing sound the ship made, like jets of air.
I remember two versions, one used right and left buttons to steer, the other featured a rotary knob.
You're right. the Knob was the best. There was a two player version and a one player. The two player game was a race to kill the aliens.
I've got an Omega Race for sale..
http://www.pdale.com
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Whenever I go to an arcade now-a-days (yes, I'm going to post about video games again LM) I always end up in the "classic games" section. But I never play them. Sometimes just looking at Donkey Kong or Defender is enough to satiate whatever nostalgic nonsense I was craving, but mostly its because they don't have the games I want. I don't want to play Pacman, I want to play the crazy trackball football game with X's and O's that made your arm hurt. I want to play Zaxxon and the Red Barron, not centipede or Galaxia. What I really want to play is the above game that I have poorly drawn from memory and can't remember the name of. You were the triangle space ship that bounced off the walls, but I can't really remember what the bad guys looked like. You had a fire button and a knob that you could turn to change your direction and a thrust button. It was similar to but much better than asteroids, and a contemporary. If anyone remembers it let me know.
UPDATE: I FOUND IT! Spent way too long looking on KLOV but it was there! . It's called Omega Race and it's the only vector game by Midway - that's part of the reason it was so hard to find because I was assuming it was Atari who seems to have made most of the vector games. The other tricky thing was that the game is not a race, it's more like asteroids. Maybe they mean a race of peoples called "Omega". My drawings turned out to be pretty good. Now I have to find one on ebay
- joester 3-18-2005 7:01 am
that would probably be spacewar, or a variant of it. I remember the stand-up console version- it pre-dated pong (really!) and was the coolest thing I had ever seen up to that point in my life. There's a java version here:
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/
and some history here:
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/
Me, I've been playing a lot of pong lately.
- rob (guest) 3-18-2005 8:37 pm
Nope, post space war. It definetly had the area in the center you coundn't go into and the animation was very smooth.
- joester 3-19-2005 2:11 am
how about star castle?
- dave 3-19-2005 5:17 am
That's not it either, but I'm really starting to get into this. Star castle brings me back.
this page does have the Atari Football game I was talking about. See, I'm not all crazy.
- joester 3-19-2005 8:58 am
Not this?
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=8929
I do remember that football game now that I've seen a picture of it. Wow. I never played it though, cause I had no idea (still don't) of how football works.
One thing I learned from klov.com is that there was a game called "nebulous bee".
- rob (guest) 3-20-2005 6:11 am
Quilts light as clouds.
- M.Jean 3-20-2005 7:04 am
Rob.- I'm pretty sure it was only 1 player, but KLOV is a great site. I've been over there looking for it myself.
M.Jean - How's that new medication working out?
- joester 3-20-2005 7:14 am
much of the gameplay involved bouncing off the walls and shooting at the same time. You had to clear all the aliens in a certain time limit.
- joester 3-20-2005 7:16 am
The outcome of nebulous bees.
- M.Jean 3-20-2005 6:26 pm
Joester, congrats on finding the game. I'm shocked.
by the way M. Jean, no cryptic crossword crosstalk allowed.
- sally mckay 3-22-2005 3:59 am
Welcome back Sally, good luck building your audience base back up. I'll be looking forward to the spelling improving too.
- joester 3-22-2005 4:05 am
nice work joe
- bill 3-22-2005 4:10 am
It’s more than cryptania or a lame joke. Think of all those distaff ancestors, their creaky skeletons lubricated by some afterlife ungent (maybe that explains the cream cheese that dimwit angel keeps advertising), making these billowing evanescent quilts and laughing (laughing!) while they work, instead of perching gingerly on their childbirth-bludgeoned crotches, biting thread, and carping.
And don’t say I’m not following the thread. Wasn’t me that said nebulous bee in the first place.
- M.Jean 3-22-2005 4:31 am
Good work Sally. I always thought "let sleeping dogs lie" was overated. Go on and poke that dog. What's the worst that could happen? It's not like a phrase such as "Childbirth-bludgeoned crotches" will keep you awake at night.
- joester 3-22-2005 4:41 am
Omega Race was my favorite game, I loved the hissing sound the ship made, like jets of air.
- steve 3-28-2005 5:59 pm
I remember two versions, one used right and left buttons to steer, the other featured a rotary knob.
- steve 3-28-2005 6:06 pm
You're right. the Knob was the best. There was a two player version and a one player. The two player game was a race to kill the aliens.
- joester 3-30-2005 9:21 pm
I've got an Omega Race for sale..
http://www.pdale.com
- Omega Race (guest) 4-09-2005 5:01 pm