Name the game - part 2

[Ljube]

The graphics is wonderful!

Unfortunately, I haven't played this one.

[Buck Birdseed]

Once someone gets it you'll get a chance to- it was made freeware some years ago.

[DrSpike]

Yes, it was the freeware version I played IIRC. I still don't remember the name, even with the screenshot. I don't have it, but I know my mate still has it. Probably the game will be over before I speak to him and get the name.

[child of Thor]

a game that i missed in my ill spent youth! but then i usually got my hands on the main commercial releases - pocket money had its uses

reminds me of a game released on a few of the 8bits a number of years earlier..............i'll guess 'Star sled' ?

[CapTVK]

I remember playing that game but the name escapes me.


Errr.....star road or something

[child of Thor]

ummm.....'Star skimmer'?

i have to offer a on this one.

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by CapTVK
I remember playing that game but the name escapes me.


Errr.....star road or something

Very, very, very close. A plural, a deleted space and a similar-sounding, similarly evocative word and you've got it. In fact, I'm tempted to give it to you anyway 'cause I'm going to bed in a minute.

[Buck Birdseed]

Okay, fine, I'm giving it to Cap on the "oh **** it I need to sleep, close enough" principle.

The name of the game is "SkyRoads".

Here's a review I wrote of the game about a year ago (alluded to earlier). http://www.counterglow.com/article.php?id=skyroads

If you want to play the game or the excellent "XMas Edition" add-on pack, both with 30 levels (yes, 30, I found out the "repeated" level had one, small, devilish difference), you can download them from the Blue Moon Interactive site: http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/skyroads/index.html

[Buck Birdseed]

(BTW this was an "emergency" game, I had stocked up on clues for Archon before realising you'd already done it, you bastards.)

[DrSpike]

It's a good one. I had heard of it, but only through the freeware version I'm sure I played a while back.

[Kropotkin]

Damn it! Skyroads! I thought about that game but I couldn't for the sake of my puny life remember much about it, least of all its name.

[FrostyBoy]

Do another Buck or hand it over to someone else to do

[Buck Birdseed]

I thought I'd already given it to CapTVK.

[GhengisFarb™]

Yeah I thought it was Cap's turn.

[DrSpike]

You two aren't familiar with Cap's goes...........he is the Milton of Name the Game. He'll be back with some wonderful rhyming couplets, which will understandably take a while.