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Flash Version of Adventure
chefmonkey writes "Of course, everyone remembers the old Atari 2600 game "Adventure." While you've been able to play it on a wide variety of emulators for a while, now playing in your web browser is just one click away. Yes, that's right, someone has gone and created a flash version of Adventure." I haven't checked it yet to see if you can get the "dot".
How does this get to be front page news? Seriously, is this just a slashdot DDoS attack on some guy's page? Old games have been created in Flash since its genesis, and this is nothing special.
If someone actually managed to write an actual emulator with Flash -- believe me, it could be done, as one was even written in QBasic a few years back -- then that would definitely be qualified for front page news. In fact, I'd hope it would be in the running for story of the year.
It's probably nice work, but c'mon, editors -- it's not worth slashdotting some guy's homepage.
Was that it was fairly complex to solve it. Good times.
Well, I was just playing Baldur's Gate II earlier this evening, and to see how the level of complexity has risen in "adventure games" is just amazing. I solved Atari's adventure in about two minutes just a second ago. I have been playing Baldur's Gate for about 80 hours and I'm not done with it yet.
Flat5
and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around
thinking about it
but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days
Seriously... things like Stella and MAME are cool. Stella is cool for about 5 minutes and MAME is cool for about 10 minutes.
The best way to honor the good old arcade games is to recreate them under modern specifications. The authors of the classics pushed their available technology to the limit as today's programmers should.
Consider Arkanoid(Breakout)... that game was unbelievably addictive. Unfortunately, playing the emulated version just isn't the same feeling that those feelings of nostalgia promised to bring.
Then Reflexive Entertainment came out with Ricochet Extreme and I can't think of a more honorable remix of the original Breakout/Arkanoid games. Grab the demo off Cnet and you'll see what I mean.
While everyone else is trying to recapture the original Arkanoid, Reflexive gave it a new life.
The old games should be remembered for how hardcore they are in terms of programming. In every other respect, they should either be updated or left in the past.
Laws are for people with no friends.
Sometimes it was better to have no graphics as opposed to crappy ones. Later, they evolved a bit into having graphics and input commands (no mouse). Damn, but don't you miss the old "King's Quest" or "Space Quest" games (graphics and text input). Not the mousy ones but the ones you had to think and type?
Crappy graphics, but at least you could move with the keyboard and still type
"look under bridge"
"take ball"
I don't really see the problem here. This game is coded in flash. It's not using the code from the original ROM.
On the other hand there could in theory be trademark problems with copying images from the original game.
Happy Fun Ball is for external use only.
The "requires IE5" is just wrong. It, and most Flash stuff (except horrible mutant flash stuff that also uses CraptiveX) run just fine in Mozilla with the Linux flash plugin.