Flack's Top 15 Games

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:11 pm

Flack wrote:I will hate that.

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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:08 pm

I'm a little late to the thread, but willing to hate. What are we hating? An iPhone app? Fucking Jobs!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:53 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I'm a little late to the thread, but willing to hate. What are we hating? An iPhone app? Fucking Jobs!

No, we're hating a puppygames homage to Paradroid, which makes me sad, because puppygames games are really... they're charming, is what they are.

Are they Apocalypse Now Blu-Ray on your high-def entertainment center? No. But they're goddamn Planes, Trains, and Automobiles in a hotel room at 2 AM when you really need it.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:24 pm

What was that game that was like Colored Line Fight and Battlezone that you wanted me to play for 22 minutes?

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:32 am

I'm not hating on puppygames in general -- I'm hating on the fact that they made an homage to one of my favorite games and took out my favorite part.

If puppygames starts releasing porn without the nudity, I will hate on it too.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:26 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:What was that game that was like Colored Line Fight and Battlezone that you wanted me to play for 22 minutes?

Flywrench

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:22 am

Is it anything like Spectre 3D?

Spectre 3D is kind of like multiplayer Battlezone. It is both the first game I ever played on a Macintosh computer, and the first multiplayer LAN game I ever played (this would have been pre-Doom -- say, 1993/94).

Essentially, the game involves running around a virtual grid, collecting flags and shooting things without getting shot. In single-player mode it's you against a bunch of AI tanks, but in multiplayer it becomes a race as to who can collect the most flags (and avoid getting blowed up real good). In the mid-90s I got a copy of the game for the PC and not only did it support local LAN play, but dial-up head-to-head battles as well, which worked great. The vector-like graphics leg to very little lag due to graphics.