Ahhhh okies, thanks for the heads up :-) Keep up the great work - love watching and hearing you review Electron games and see how they compared to my BBC childhood (and adulthood hehe).
Moon Raider is an impressive game, especially given that it was a fairly early release from Micro Power. The trick to playing it is to keep low and focus on hitting the fuel dumps.
I loved Tempest on the Electron. The arcade version was pretty hard to. It had a Knob as a controller *chortle As long as you kept moving round you could get quite far. Moon Raider I still have on cassette. It was too bloody hard and I rarely got to the maze level. :-)
If you get the chance to review BBC Micro games, then "Web War" was a better version of the Tempest game... more slick. We had Moon Raider as well, more or less the same as the Electron but each stage had a different coloured background e.g. the last level you showed (maze level) was yellow background. Video's Revenge was the same IIRC, basically a top-down version of Defender/Planetoid.
I remember the "walls" changing colours when you got to certain stages too. As I've just commented myself, Moon Raider and Acornsoft's Rocket Raid were extremely similar, but actually both decent games, Beeb wise - although quite hard to complete.
I had 'Tempest' (BBC version) several times over on various compilation disks that inherited, and whilst it's not a terrible game, to be honest I could never really see the fuss either. Graphics-wise I suppose it handled fairly well. The whole mock 3D thing, when analysed, isn't actually as fancy as the game would want you to believe. It was the sort of game I'd load up on a passing whim occasionally, randomly bash away at the keys (it wasn't too hard to win a few levels doing that) and then just kinda move on to something else again. 'Killapede'... Did I have this? I dunno, I had so many numerous Centepide clones that I honestly can't remember (I suspect I did). I did have a 'Centipede' clone I preferred (again I'm talking BBC version) but I honestly can't remember what it was, it was a genre that very much blurred into one for me. 'Play Your Cards Right'... urgh. Not the sort of game that would have remotely interested me anyway, but even if it was one that I had inherited on aforementioned compilation disks, I still don't think I would have given it more than thirty seconds. Boring, badly programmed... At most it feels like this should have been a type-in-yourself game from one of the relevant magazines of the day, not an official "give us your money for this" release! 'Moon Raider', again I had the BBC version, and in my mind I always get it mixed up with the similar clone 'Rocket Raid' by Acornsoft as they are extremely similar. I do recall them being very hard, especially MR, and one of the few games that I actually did better at when playing on joystick. Whilst tricky (I'm wondering if the Elc version is actually even harder than the Beeb), actually not a bad game overall in terms of what it's getting out of such tiny memory. I did have 'Video's Revenge' on yet another compilation disk (I had many, courtesy of my Dad's work... I think they just played games all day!), but I only remember it from name only; in fact even back then when loading it up I could never actually remember what the game WAS and was just intrigued by the title each time. Reasonable game it seems, not too dissimilar to the various other space-y games for the Beeb/Elc, I've seen far worse offerings from the genre.
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Ahhhh okies, thanks for the heads up :-) Keep up the great work - love watching and hearing you review Electron games and see how they compared to my BBC childhood (and adulthood hehe).
Moon Raider is an impressive game, especially given that it was a fairly early release from Micro Power. The trick to playing it is to keep low and focus on hitting the fuel dumps.
Well at least there was one good one. The scramble clone showed promise, but they did not get the balance right.
I loved Tempest on the Electron. The arcade version was pretty hard to. It had a Knob as a controller *chortle As long as you kept moving round you could get quite far. Moon Raider I still have on cassette. It was too bloody hard and I rarely got to the maze level. :-)
If you get the chance to review BBC Micro games, then "Web War" was a better version of the Tempest game... more slick. We had Moon Raider as well, more or less the same as the Electron but each stage had a different coloured background e.g. the last level you showed (maze level) was yellow background. Video's Revenge was the same IIRC, basically a top-down version of Defender/Planetoid.
I remember the "walls" changing colours when you got to certain stages too. As I've just commented myself, Moon Raider and Acornsoft's Rocket Raid were extremely similar, but actually both decent games, Beeb wise - although quite hard to complete.
There's an Electron version of Web War, which'll be getting the treatment soon. Maybe this weekend. :-)
I had 'Tempest' (BBC version) several times over on various compilation disks that inherited, and whilst it's not a terrible game, to be honest I could never really see the fuss either. Graphics-wise I suppose it handled fairly well. The whole mock 3D thing, when analysed, isn't actually as fancy as the game would want you to believe. It was the sort of game I'd load up on a passing whim occasionally, randomly bash away at the keys (it wasn't too hard to win a few levels doing that) and then just kinda move on to something else again.
'Killapede'... Did I have this? I dunno, I had so many numerous Centepide clones that I honestly can't remember (I suspect I did). I did have a 'Centipede' clone I preferred (again I'm talking BBC version) but I honestly can't remember what it was, it was a genre that very much blurred into one for me.
'Play Your Cards Right'... urgh. Not the sort of game that would have remotely interested me anyway, but even if it was one that I had inherited on aforementioned compilation disks, I still don't think I would have given it more than thirty seconds. Boring, badly programmed... At most it feels like this should have been a type-in-yourself game from one of the relevant magazines of the day, not an official "give us your money for this" release!
'Moon Raider', again I had the BBC version, and in my mind I always get it mixed up with the similar clone 'Rocket Raid' by Acornsoft as they are extremely similar. I do recall them being very hard, especially MR, and one of the few games that I actually did better at when playing on joystick. Whilst tricky (I'm wondering if the Elc version is actually even harder than the Beeb), actually not a bad game overall in terms of what it's getting out of such tiny memory.
I did have 'Video's Revenge' on yet another compilation disk (I had many, courtesy of my Dad's work... I think they just played games all day!), but I only remember it from name only; in fact even back then when loading it up I could never actually remember what the game WAS and was just intrigued by the title each time. Reasonable game it seems, not too dissimilar to the various other space-y games for the Beeb/Elc, I've seen far worse offerings from the genre.