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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Low Blow from Apple/Rescue Raiders GS
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Date: 23 Sep 90 21:15:52 GMT
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In article <1990Sep23.194958.21310@ee.rochester.edu> seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah) writes:
<> I said doubly quoted junk:
<>	Rescue Raiders used some of the same graphics as Choplifter
<>(you HAVE to remember choplifter if you've been in the // world for a 
<>while!)...
<What do you mean by this?  As far as I remember, there were no graphics
<"lifted" from Choplifter, though many of the elements were there.  The
<running guys and the helicopter were much different looking.
	I'm pretty sure that at least the running guys were basically
the exact same pixel representations on both games. I thought the
helicopters were the same too but now you've made me doubt that..

<My absolute favorite part of the whole game was the missiles!  They were
<guided, and the enemy would launch swarms of them at you!  It was truly
<the test of an excellent pilot when you could fly all the way from 
<your base to the enemy base and drop your guys into their bunker...without
<getting blown to smithereens by the guided missiles spewing out of the
<Main Base every second!  The missiles obeyed the laws of physics, and
<would become "dead bombs" when they ran out of fuel...these are the best
<missiles I have ever seen in an arcade game!  True "seat-of-the-pants"
<flying...not many games have approached this.  At least, I can't think of
<one right now.
	Yeah, you mean the ones where they'd shoot off of the jeeps??
And I think the jeeps would blow up since they shot off their missile
(and thus had no purpose in the game anymore!).

<>	Enough rambling for now.. except one more thing. I feel that the
<>people in Rescue Raiders and Choplifter are AMAZING! They seem SO realistic
<>yet they're so small and use so few pixels.. Oh yeah.. I think the people in
<>Lode Runner are the same too. (the demo for Lode Runner GS too)

>Dan "Choplifter" Gorlin also did some great animation in AirHeart...it
>really kicked!  Did he also do Short Circuit (?), where you are a little
>dude running around electronic circuits?  Wait...I think I'm mixing up
>the dude who did that and "Dino Eggs" (another excellently-done game).
>And how about Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia!  Truly awe-inspiring!

	I don't know who did Short Circuit. That was/is a really cool game!
The magneto level was too darn hard though.. I never solved the game..
(magneto level was the one where you had to go up this long 'corridor'
thing where there were magnets on each side and they pulled you! There were
also other things to kill you).
	Dino Eggs was pretty cool too... That was one of the ones converted
to a file game way way way back.. I never got into Airheart though. It was
really good graphically, but I thought it was hard to control and just not 
too fun. Actually I heard it could be solved in like 5 minutes.. no fun! heh.
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