It wasn't a Commandore 64, it was a COMMODORE 64!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Arrian
Holy ****! You guys remember an awful lot about PoR! I just vaguely remember having the game. I'm not sure I finished it. I definitely beat Dragons of Krynn, though.

I spent ALOT of time on that game. I had to wait a whole year for Curse of the Azure bonds to come out and the only other RPG out was Bard's Tail 1 which you had to play on an IBM PC with CGA graphics and no sound card. PoR was the only RPG game in town worth owning.

[Stefu]

Nonono. It was quite simple, actually, and I probably shouldn't say "space game", since that'll make one think of a simulator or something - it was either a side scroller or one of those things which happen only on one screen a la Space Invaders. I can't describe it well enough for anyone to remember.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Stefu
Nonono. It was quite simple, actually, and I probably shouldn't say "space game", since that'll make one think of a simulator or something - it was either a side scroller or one of those things which happen only on one screen a la Space Invaders. I can't describe it well enough for anyone to remember.

Defender?

[Dinner]

Asteroids?

[Dinner]

Blue Max was a great airplane game for the C64. I spent days and days shotting and bombing things.

[Boris Godunov]

Galaga, I bet.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Blue Max was a great airplane game for the C64. I spent days and days shotting and bombing things.

Yep,
till today I don´t know,
what was the trigger to get into those large Cities,
where you had to Bomb Flak Batteries.

I know that in the End I fairly often got into these Cities,
but I don´t know how I made it.

Perhaps by shooting enough of those special marked Planes and Bombing enough of the special marked Cars?

btw.
I never did get fully into Blue Max 2001

[Dinner]

The triggers were point totals. If you got enough point then you went on to the next level. If you didn't have enough points then you just kept repeating the same level over and over.

I never played Blue Max 2001 but the original was ahead of it's time.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Oerdin


I spent ALOT of time on that game. I had to wait a whole year for Curse of the Azure bonds to come out and the only other RPG out was Bard's Tail 1 which you had to play on an IBM PC with CGA graphics and no sound card. PoR was the only RPG game in town worth owning.

I had to subscribe to a foreign games delivery company for the Curse of the Azure Bonds since most games at that time here were pirated and after PoR I wanted them original for my C64 (for the manuals, the stability etc).

But by the time the games arrived I had the Amiga 500 and had sold my C64

[Dinner]

You missed out on a fun game dude. It was as fun a PoR though. It just wasn't as original as the first one.

[Bereta_Eder]

I've played it too. Later on though at my 386 after the Amiga 500. I agree it wasn't as good as PoR. Maybe the novelty had worn off but I think it also was more restrictive than PoR in some ways... movement outside cities etc)

[Dinner]

They improved the game engine in Curse since they added the "restl" feature. In PoR you had to guess about how long it would take to heal your characters and your mages never automatically rememorized their spells. With one touch of the "rest" button your people were healed and their spells rememorized.

[Bereta_Eder]

Yeah that was a great option, granted.

[The diplomat]

Ah, the C-64. What a wonderful age of innocence!

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Odin


Defender?

Defender...
reading this word in your Posting reminds me of another great Game:

Defender of the Crown

I spent hours in building Castles and besieging others
Especially being able to steer a Catapult and Bombard the Walls of the enemy Castle was a great Feature for this time.

Althougn I found the Tournaments being a little bit too easy, as you just had to count how many times your Lance bumped up and down and then, at the right time had to raise it.