Competition: Name the game

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by child of Thor


Ah! the hint above was a real hint I think i know what it is now, but i'll give it a little time to see if others(?) have got it or want to answer

I think it's gone on for a while...........may as well answer it if you know.

[child of Thor]

Ok i've set myself up for a big enough fall [edit: i'm only 70% sure so i'll wait for confirmation]
It's Mercenry by Novogen(programmed by Paul Woakes/Oakes?). I played this and the sequal 'The Second City' to death on my 8 bit Atari.
That was a tuff one CapTVK

[CapTVK]

That is correct Thor!

It's indeed Paul Woakes Mercenary by Novagen. in Mercenary your ship crashlands on Targ and you have to escape by gathering enough money to buy a ship that will take you off into space. You earn money by delivering items to specific parties. The city has been turned into a war zone and you need to find out which side pays the best. (You can even kidnap a commander and sell him to the other side!)

Mercenary is special because it's one the first 3D games. It's all in wireframes but the sense of being there was amazing at the time. How he managed to put an entire city in 64k still manages to amaze me.

You can find a remake of Mercenary here:

http://www.geocities.com/paris/7150/merce.htm

[CapTVK]

Btw Thor, did you manage to finish Mercenary and Mercenary: the 2nd city? I had some hints from gaming magazines at the time but even then it was tough to finish.

[child of Thor]

Cool! Thank god its over!
Nice link - if i find the time i might relive my 8bit days
And yes i did finish them - i even drew up detailed maps and guides for both of them and sent them into 'Atari User' magazine(don't think they got published though )

Ok a nice easy one

Platform: 8bit and later nearly every platform i think?

Date: not sure mid 80's - 90's for last conversions.

Clue:

Flap flap flap get the egg
jump hop damn! too late to beg
You just got lanced.

[DrSpike]

Chuckie Egg?

[child of Thor]

No

another clue:

Don't fall of the ledge or the larva will get you.

[SCG]

Originally posted by child of Thor
No

another clue:

Don't fall of the ledge or the larva will get you.

it's not Joust, is it?

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by SCG


it's not Joust, is it?

Yes it is.

ACK!

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by SCG


it's not Joust, is it?

Correct SCG!
Joust was one of my fav two player games at that time, it was a simple yet addictive game. 1 or 2 players competed for the 'eggs' on one screen with various platforms to jump from and bump into. If you left the eggs too long they would hatch into enemy 'jousters' and it made things much more difficult. The gravity+ inertia effect was great - it really was a skill to manouvere yourself ontop of enemy jousters(which included player 2) to knock them out the game.
Your go now

[SCG]

hmm, gonna go with one of my old favorites

1) 8-bit game, 1981

2) careful shooting morgs next to saguaros!

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by SCG
hmm, gonna go with one of my old favorites

1) 8-bit game, 1981
........edit........

1981! That's when i first saw a computer! so god knows.......bat and ball?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by SCG
1) 8-bit game, 1981

'81??? That's the year I saw this planet for the first time...

[child of Thor]

but that's no excuse

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by SCG
hmm, gonna go with one of my old favorites

1) 8-bit game, 1981

2) careful shooting morgs next to saguaros!

Was it released on various 8-bit homecomputers (C64, spectrum) or only the AppleII?