I loved that game, and still play it some times.
I remember the hunt for the world records. Fun.
Many of the WR records can be downloaded. So that would be a good place to start the research. :)
Count this post as "Yeah, I also want to see that game TAS:ed".
Interestingly enough, Apogee (or 3D studios, as it is now called) has released several of their games as freeware. I'm not sure if this means if they're legal or not, but it's still nostalgia.
Also:
Doom
Wolfenstein 3D
Spear of Destiny
Bio Menace
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Blake Stone
I also remember vaguely some Halloween-ish game where you played as a kid with a slingshot and you had to go around shooting cages to free pets. Anyone remember the title for that one?
adelikat wrote:
It started off fairly tame, but as more balls entered the picture it sure got a lot more entertaining.
I also remember vaguely some Halloween-ish game where you played as a kid with a slingshot and you had to go around shooting cages to free pets. Anyone remember the title for that one?
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My list (in no particular order):
1. Jazz Jackrabbit - extremely fast, in fact it's so fast it becomes nearly impossible to anticipate what'll happen next. You can frequently outrun the screen, too.
2. Little Big Adventure 2 - I'm actually not sure if this runs under DOSBox or if it requires Windows. It's been a VERY LONG TIME since I played it. But it's one of those classics that'll probably be done at some point, for good reason.
3. The Settlers II (Die Siedler II) - the best of the Settlers series, which (if I'm right about this) would be the first top-down strategy game to grace TASVideos (StarCraft for N64 was never completed, unfortunately).
4. Screamer - Ridge Racer? What's that? Screamer is the PC equivalent. As far as I'm concerned, this one can be replaced with another classic racing game of choice (maybe Death Rally, even, but at the very least we should do one 3D racing game).
5. WarCraft 2 - this needs explanation? I personally find the lack of competitive WarCraft 2 videos on the internet to be shocking. I know, it wasn't really very easy to upload or indeed even record or store large videos of WarCraft 2 matches during the time when it was being played, but there have been international competitions in which brilliant players competed. Where did all that material go? A TAS of this classic game would be great and might even encourage some of those oldbies to come out of hiding again.
6. Fade to Black - very interesting and quite difficult (the way I remember it) game with full polygonal graphics.
I wish I could name a few more, but I'm sick right now and can't seem to think straight. I'm probably leaving out a few very good or very obvious choices.
Note that I've excluded games that can be TASed on another platform (Prince of Persia, even though it's different, as well as Heart of Darkness and Abe's Oddysee due to PSX emulation) or have already been done via other means (Doom, Quake, and perhaps Hexen).
yeah definately. tried making a frame/step-advance movie using Rocks'n'Diamonds tape recording.
classic_supaplex.zip
after unzipping, the classic_supaplex folder goes in My Documents\Rocks'n'Diamonds\
level 003: demonstrates the fast snapping thats possible
level 091: spends less time waiting compared to youtube video
the engine is slower than the original game but it could be useful for route planning
3. The Settlers II (Die Siedler II) - the best of the Settlers series, which (if I'm right about this) would be the first top-down strategy game to grace TASVideos (StarCraft for N64 was never completed, unfortunately).
I didn't mention this because the game is an incredibly slow one even at 2x speed. Unless they used the cheat code to speed the game up to 3 or 4x, it will be a boring tas.
btw, isn't apogee, 3drealms?
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franpa wrote:
3. The Settlers II (Die Siedler II) - the best of the Settlers series, which (if I'm right about this) would be the first top-down strategy game to grace TASVideos (StarCraft for N64 was never completed, unfortunately).
I didn't mention this because the game is an incredibly slow one even at 2x speed. Unless they used the cheat code to speed the game up to 3 or 4x, it will be a boring tas.
I think that if you use a high DOSBox speed, the game will render quite quickly. It was quite a heavy game with its high-resolution SVGA graphics, which I think accounted for most of the slowdown. It's also probably bearable if you continuously make new military buildings.
franpa wrote:
btw, isn't apogee, 3drealms?
Yeah, 3D Realms was just a subdivision of Apogee, but they're now using it as their official name.
Interestingly enough, Apogee (or 3D studios, as it is now called) has released several of their games as freeware. I'm not sure if this means if they're legal or not, but it's still nostalgia.
They are legal if they have released them as such.
