Hi, Hmmm....I don't believe I ever personally played Bubble Bobble myself.Although, I saw others playing it at the arcade. Just never seemed like a game that drew my attention enough to waste a few quarters on it. :D
As for Millipede I suppose an audio version is possible, but I'd have to think how to represent the screen in audio. The thing that made that game challenging is that the millipedes could hide behind mushrooms avoiding your shots so you had to fire between the mushrooms just as the millipede showed itself or you missed the shot. Basically, while it had the style of Space Invaders there were plenty of things in the way to fowl up your shots which made Millipede a more challenging game. Cheers! On 11/19/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi desiri. > > Funnily enough I never played bubble boble seriously until quite recently > > when I bought the old and new version for the gba (or gba player in my > case). I agree on the music though, it's like the theme to tetris in that it > > just gets stuck in your brain! > > two games we had on the amigar computer were rainbow islands and parasol > stars which were bubble bobble Ii and Iii respectively, and parasol stars in > > particular was fantastic! run around with umbrellas defeating nasty > monsters by picking them up on the brolly's point and chucking them at other > > monsters! > > For an audio version, it would be comparatively difficult to replicate the > gameplay exactly, because while the bubble bobble games were extremely > simple in design, in their full use of the vertical dimention in 2D they > could be highly complex. Monsters would drop from the sky and come straight > > for you, and often you had to calculate the best position to be in to get > them as they fell, or bubbles would rise up from the bottom of the screen. > > You also shot bubbles yourself, and once a monster was encased you had to > chase it around as it floated and burst the bobble before the monster broke > > free and attacked you. Also bare in mind the layouts of levels could be > vertically quite convoluted with ledges everywhere making it hard to track > what pat the monsters would take to attack you. So while a similar concept > might be possible in audio, it'd need a bit of modifying i think. > > As to millipeed though, I also loved that game, indeed I had a rather nice > retroremakes version called millenipeed at one time. > > millipeed would I think work very well as an audio game, sinse though it > has similarities to space invaders in tht you are at the bottom and shooting > > up, the movement, obstacles, shoot principles and such were all wildly > different, for instance having a small area you could move both > horrizontally and verticlly in at the bottom, with millipeeds zig zagging > downwards as well as other nasties coming into the bottom area to get you > with you having to avoid them vertically, and having all the mushrooms in > the way of course. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
