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It is, and a lovely surprise. Exploring the world of very old games on obscure systems, you go through a lot of so-so stuff (I'm being polite) and then you find wonderful little gems like this one.

The author did a really good job with these. I am always impressed at how these guys overcome a restriction in a system - in this case, you cannot make your own graphics on the PET.

In Stella, click 'Options' / 'Game Properties' / 'Console' and there should be the A and B options for Difficulty switches. Alternatively, in game, F5 and F6 change the Left Difficulty switch and F7 and F8 change the right Difficulty switch (a little box appears at the bottom when you press them to tell you what it is now set to).

Thanks for stopping to take a look. I was exploring the Aquarius library last year and tried every game I could find. I never saw one at the time (I used the Oric) and it is very nice to see that there is still an active community for this old machine!

Ja, die Ansicht ist schwer zu verstehen.

I think without them the game would be too easy 🙂. And this was the 1980s - games were not fair back then! ;-)

@@tgphighscoreruns4111 oh, it absolutely would be too easy without it. But they should be less sharply variable and there should probably be some sort of visual gauge on screen to show the direction and strength. It shouldn't have to feel so much like shooting in the dark!

I never saw this on the Electron (or Beeb) back in the day. I did play it on the Oric however, a version which is far too easy and boring.

There is an Acorn Atom software archive you could try as well.

It's a very nice Rogue-like from Rax. It's now available on itch.io as well!

Well it was a long time ago! I remember the PET at school in the early 1980s, and a Lunar Lander game on it. We used to type simple BASIC programs on it as well. The school also had a BBC Micro and of course we paid a lot more attention to that, as it had better games ;-).

I hadn't come across it until recently either. I don't remember it at all back in the 80s.

Thanks, old magazine listings are quite interesting to explore.

Nostlagia - it just can't be beaten! I'm enjoying playing games on obscure computers that I remember in magazines in the 1980s. These machines are - shall we say - very basic and I am sure that younger people could not bear to play such games, but if you were there at the time, it brings back all that nostalgia!

I will!

Never played it back in the day, only got to try it recently. Classic 3D style graphics from Software Invasion.

I would learn the position of all the items on each track through play. Then I would recite them as I played, so I was always ready for what was around the next bend - like having a Rally Driver co-pilot. There are not a lot of items on this short track, so it is easy to learn.

@@tgphighscoreruns4111 do you get anything for getting 10 fuel on every race

@@RandyBandit34 You need to collect all coins and the required number of fuel cans to get a full rating for each track.

It was popular on a lot of machines at the time! I was never very keen on it in arcades, but I enjoy it now.

Well, you certainly did a lot better than any of my efforts in BASIC! And I never learned any assembly or FORTH. Its hard to get across to younger generations just how magical it was to play any sort of game on a television back then. Just like reading a book, your imagination filled in the gaps that the hardware and coding could not fill! I love looking back at this time, the multiformat magazines, the machines that were all so different from each other even if they used the same processor. No 'standard' system to focus on and nobody knowing which machines would become standards, it was all very exciting in a way that I don't think can ever happen again.

I don't know, I've probably got something set up incorrectly.

An old classic! Also available on the Amstrad CPC I believe.

Thanks, I was shocked to see it was second - I'm sure people can do better than this. It was also a nice surprise to see Marco at No.1!

It took me a few goes to work it out! Thankfully after playing thousands of old school games I have a fair idea how the programmers ideas work!

I think we all hear that when we play Choplifter!

Ja, das war eine sehr gute Arbeit!

Just my preferred choice at the time.

Hello, just tried running on my PC. Flippers work ok (and both together at the same time without any sign of glitches) using the left and right cursor keys and/or the left and right shift keys. I don't use a controller for this kind of game.

@@tgphighscoreruns4111 Thank you so much for your help! I was trying to use the mouse buttons. Now it does work for me also. Thanks again!

@@tonyehickling6956 Happy I could help!

Certainly was, with assistance from a glass of Green Chartreuse (neat).

@@tgphighscoreruns4111 Never heard of it. Are you Hannibal Lecter??

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Chartreuse is a French herbal liqueur: the only one in the world with a natural green color. It's been made by French monks since 1737 using a secret recipe using a blend of 130 different plants and herbs. The name comes from the Grande Chartreuse monastery, located near Grenoble, France

@@tgphighscoreruns4111 Cool drink, then? Beer is my threshold :D

Megamania 😉😉

Got to make each track count!

It is quite a good version.

A nice machine, I should get my real one out of storage at some point!

@@tgphighscoreruns4111 There’s a very informative video on how they started somewhere.