Joust?

[lord of the mark]

Anyone ever play joust?

[centrifuge]

Do you mean the old arcade game where you fly around jousting on big birds? If so not since the '80's

[Space05us]

such a sad game

centrifuge there are a million flavours of joust all over the internet.

[vee4473]

joust was fun. i liked hearing your ostrich, or whatever it was, skid as it tried to slow down.


i think it made a skidding sound.....

[GhengisFarb™]

I'm pretty sure it was an ostrich. It was a very fun game.

[Urban Ranger]

You fly pterodactyls IIFC. I suck at it, though I saw some dude who could play for hours on a coin.

[Spaced Cowboy]

A buddy of mine was all in a fit for the last two days trying to find (recently released) midway classics arcade (something or other) for his gamecube. He went to/called 10 different stores and we went and picked it up yesterday at lunch. The main thing that he was excited about was Joust..but he is a strange lad.

I remember playing this in the arcade but just could not get into it, at least not as much as with missle command, defender, or asteriods.

[Urban Ranger]

Gaunlet

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by centrifuge
Do you mean the old arcade game where you fly around jousting on big birds? If so not since the '80's

Yup - '80s was only time i really played arcade games - it was big thing in college and grad school. once i was out of school never really played them again. I saw a reference to joust on the web and it brought back memories.

[Sarxis]

Me too. Arcade is dead.

[JohnT]

I used to play (and you flew ostriches, UR, not pterydactyls) and was decent - I broke 200,000 a couple of times. There was also the pterydactyl cheat that one could use to get millions of points - I did that once, got as close to the highest score as the game would allow (I think 9,999,999) and then killed all my guys, snagging the top entry on the game for at least a year.

Yeah, Williams Arcade Classics is a must-have for any 80s arcade fan.

[DarkCloud]

I played it hundreds of times
(I had an old atari )

It was a good, though amazingly hard game

And it was really fun with 2 players... or yourself playing as two jousters simultaneously!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
And it was really fun with 2 players... or yourself playing as two jousters simultaneously!

Oh yeah, since you only need to control how the good guys fly. Still, it's hard enough to control one.

[Adagio]

Joust? I've heard the name before, but it doesen't ring a bell!?!

Could someone please inform clueless me?

[Urban Ranger]

You ride on a bird and have a lance. Your objective is to knock the bad guys off by bumping into them while flying higher.