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Name the game
« on: March 09, 2007, 03:42:41 PM »
I'm trying to remember the name of a game I used to like playing. IIRC it opened in a window on Workbench and you controlled a little helicopter which could fire forwards and down. A terrain was (randomly?) created, sometimes with cliffs, sometimes with ceilings, sometimes both, sometimes tunnels to squeeze through. There were also cannons which fired up, and you could shoot the tops off them to destroy them. I seem to remember that all of the graphics were red.

Does anyone remember the name of this game? I seem to remember somethingabout "Raid", but I couldn't find anything by Googling this or on Aminet.

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Re: Name the game
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2007, 03:56:39 PM »
Hum,
Perhaps it was raid...

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Re: Name the game
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2007, 04:17:46 PM »
No that's not it. It was side-scrolling. It scrolled automatically, and all the graphics were all red, or maybe green, and much more simple than that. Obviously not Raid then :-)

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Re: Name the game
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2007, 07:24:14 PM »
Moto,

Could it be that it was on a Coverdisk (IIRC Amiga Computing)? It used the four Workbench colors. It indeed ran on the workbench. I've played it quite a lot but its name... Must be getting old ;-)
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Re: Name the game
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2007, 07:38:49 PM »
Does sound a bit like Fort Apocalypse but I don't remember there being an Amiga version.
Used to play it on the C64 and Atari.
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Re: Name the game
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2007, 07:51:11 PM »
@amiga_3k
Yes I think it did come on a coverdisk. I remember playing it on WB1.3 in a small window, and yes it might have been the Workbench orange colour.

@castellen
No it wasn't that :-(

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Re: Name the game
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2007, 08:12:02 PM »
Sounds almost like the arcade Super Cobra.  Not sure if there is an Amiga version/clone though.



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Re: Name the game
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2007, 08:15:27 PM »
Yes very similar to that, but ISTR that the graphics were even less detailed, and it definitely ran in a window.

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Re: Name the game
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2007, 09:37:29 AM »
Just a *bump* - really hoping someone can help me remember the name of this game! It might have come on CU Amiga's "21 Games" collection but I can't find a copy anywhere. Has anyone got it?

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Re: Name the game
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2007, 10:04:18 AM »
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Just a *bump* - really hoping someone can help me remember the name of this game! It might have come on CU Amiga's "21 Games" collection but I can't find a copy anywhere. Has anyone got it?

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There's a website with a lot of downloadable CU Amiga coverdisks (in ADF), and the "21 Games" (coverdisk #22) is amongst them.

I'm not posting the link here (for fear of being shot by the Copyright Protection Sniper Brigade), but just Google search for "cu amiga coverdisk", you'll find it (or send me a PM).
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Re: Name the game
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2007, 12:50:56 PM »
Well it's not on 21 Games. It was definitely a Workbench game. Is there a list of Workbench games anywhere?

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Re: Name the game
« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2007, 07:02:16 PM »
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Re: Name the game
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2007, 07:08:03 PM »
Hi melange

I think that might be it! I recognise the huge blue icon. Sadly it doesn't seem to run properly under 3.9 :-(

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Re: Name the game
« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2007, 07:13:15 PM »
Yeah, I gave it a try in AmiKit and didn't seem to work properly either.
Either that or I didn't understand what was supposed to be happening.  :crazy: Seemed way too fast anyway.   :-(
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Re: Name the game
« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2007, 07:15:20 PM »
Oh wait it does work, you have to open it on a 15KHz screen (rather than a CGX/P96 one) then it works. And it is the game I was trying to find. Thanks a lot!!!!! :-D :-D :-D

Not sure why I remember the landscape being red and the helicopter shooting down and across at the same time. Maybe I'm confusing it with a different game.

Anyway, thanks a lot! :-D

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