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All those French people!

Thank you! Yes, as a game it's rather limited (and expensive). Your ship is either completely fine OR in the process of sinking. And attacking a Spanish ship is a 50/50 chance, which does seem to be rather strange. Glad you enjoyed watching! I'm working on another one where I've added MUSIC to it!

It's elegant, it's fun.... and comes with an important ecological message!

The idea is really cool, like a proper Indiana Jones adventure. It's just AWKWARD to play, sadly. And this is better than the Amstrad CPC version. I thought it's good to show people what it's like, just as a historical record!

It does, doesn't it. But better sounds, and it's faster. It plays well. The MSX is Z80-based so it's a port of the original but I imagine with bits changing. I think this hurt those systems more than it helped them.

Give people some unique content while they're waiting!

Oui... mais pour moi c'etait SEGA Master System II! :)

@@WhatHoSnorkers la rivalité Sega Nintendo fin des années 80 et début 90

@@WhatHoSnorkers sans oublier les jeux Amstrad Avenger, Krakout, Punchy, Tellement des bons moments. Tout sur une cassette et le bruit pour le chargement..... Sa reste l'âge d'or des jeux 2d et de la génération ou le monde tournais un petit peut mieux. Du moin les valeurs était présent.

@@gregory19771 It was a simpler time for me, that's for sure. Childhood!

Thanks Ponder! Some of those later levels were INTENSE!

@@WhatHoSnorkers So I saw!

You've not seen my Kevin Smith videos yet. Mind you, I didn't know that Richard Evans was a famous person. From what I can gather on the comments, he's a film reviewer from Milwaukee. It'd be nice if it was actually the same person!

Thank you! In some of my videos I play the famous Australian, William "Horace" Tang...

@@WhatHoSnorkers your welcome 🤗 oh ok

Welcome to the Snorkers cinematic universe. A cast of dozens, all of whom are me in different costumes...

Ahhh, now it makes sense. I was literally unaware of his involvement in that. I had hear of Red Letter Media not but watched any of their stuff. I've also not read The Scarlet Letter... or seen "Easy A" which does look like great fun. Of course, he COULD have written this. He'd have been 8 years old but it's not totally impossible... just highly unlikely!

They do have a bit of rhythm to them!

Wow! It's not the biggest type-in I've done, but it's certainly large enough that you wouldn't want to handle it after your tea but before bedtime. It's lovely when you type these things in and they actually do work!

He's got to keep himself in sheepskin coats somehow, margins were very tight in Ancient Egypt... Glad you enjoyed it!

My Mum bought us a second-hand ZX81 (with RAM pack!) and a bag of games as our first computer... and I learned BASIC on that, then on the +2... and I'm an IT professional (to a certain extent!) today as well! "Here's this game. You can do it too, if you put your mind to it!" was a lovely time. Later when the type-ins were just pages of machine code numbers without explanation it lost its charm.

I was so much hoping the story would have a happy ending, but then I read the part about becoming an IT professional. I am so sorry. Take heart. You are not alone.

Thank you! It was a fair amount of typing in, and it doesn't look the fanciest... but there's a solid platformer in there, and it gets VERY tricky. The first time I played it I ended up repeating the first level 7 times as I typed a number in wrong. Type-ins were clearly on their way out in 1985 but this was a good one! And you have a great weekend too!

Thank you very much! Yes, the appearance of letters is indeed random. It does 100 beeps, and for each beep it prints a random character of that line. So there is indeed a chance that it may miss out letters... But after it has finished BEEPing the 100th time, it prints the whole string out as a safety net!

@@WhatHoSnorkers Ah! Very smart, and you’d barely notice more than one letter appearing at the end if it got that far.

@@Justin-TPG Yeah, it's really well done!

The home of Laverne and Shirley!

Do you want the Oasis soup or the Blur soup? "What's the difference?" The soup is the same, but with the Oasis soup YOU GET A ROLL WITH IT

@@ParadigmShifter-zx5fq Cracking! I'll have to remember them! I've got Mancunian style fishing hats after all...

@@WhatHoSnorkers That's one of the best action games written in BASIC I have seen so far and Snorkification made it even better (not sure about the flashing though). I'm sure there's an easy way to reduce the ghosting (which was a big improvement on the flashing however, so good job) involving whether you actually moved or not, and old positions etc. but this RUclips comment is too narrow to write down the complete proof I am afraid. EDIT: The Indiana Cojones game was also very well done for a BASIC game

@@ParadigmShifter-zx5fq Yes, the Flashing did get a bit excessive! It's a cracking game though, with decent falling action and everything. There are two sorts of movement happening, ones you control (left and right) and ones that are automatic (jumping an falling), and it's the latter where it's gets tricky. Indiana Jones y el Idolo de Oro was indeed a superb BASIC game as well!

Thank you. Dodgy dealers seem to have always been a thing, from Ea-Nasir (the first documented complaint letter!) to Daley! All he wanted were some nice traps to keep his diamond - AS BIG AS A CHILD'S HEAD - safe. All he got were some poisonous rocks!

He'd save a fortune that's for sure! Glad you liked it!

You are welcome! With sand, I either have to drive to the beach or make do somehow, and as I had sheets of sandpaper in the house.... might as well use them! The timer can be removed or disabled quite easily. I never actually found it to be an issue, but after you complete it once, the clock gets faster. Completing it once is a challenge enough... you only get ONE extra life for completing the game!

It's not often you get to do that, so I'm milking it!

Thank you Lee! And thanks to Mr Evans too... I've found another one of his games to type in!

Thanks Daph! It's a simple game but it packs a lot in!

Thanks Nick! Five year mission complete!

Yeah! And hold it in place with Bluetack! When we used our ZX81 we gave up on the RAM pack in the end.

@@WhatHoSnorkers it made typing those listings in even more exciting. Like a game of buckaroo. One wrong move and everything is lost.

@@gedbyrne8482 Oh yes, I remember that well! Loading Rocket Man, loaded on the third go then you pressed a key too har and BOOM.

Yes! I bought 4 sheets of sandpaper for my Pyramid of Iunnuh video and then just plopped it on the dining room table. It didn't lie flat, but that looked a bit like sand dunes! It's fun trying to do things quickly and simply! I've moved away from AI art as this sort of stuff is more fun!

@@WhatHoSnorkers I understand exactly what you mean.

Not often you can say that these days! Not found anywhere else!

I need to do something nice...

Yeah! I watched your Spelunker video yesterday evening and thought of his ankles, and compared to this bloke who can fall 60 feet. Not as good as Chel from Portal though who, because of those things on her ankles, can fall FOREVER! And it's REALLY tightly designed. Later levels require you to plan your route carefully, and make maximum use of the jumping arc. It's superb!

Thank you very much! I wanted to get something out, so for me this was a QUICK video. It really helps when the game itself is really good. A bit of a dust and polish and we're good. It has a good difficulty curve and is well architected too. Proper job!

@@WhatHoSnorkers And Nefertiti!!!

She inspired the pyramids!

I'm a cultural and environmental nightmare, what with my private jet, film crew and floating museum...

@@WhatHoSnorkers I bet that Middle Aged' Teenage Snorkers is a nightmare to work with, though. Flippin' little yobbo he is!

He's easily distracted by some Sherbert in his trailer thankfully!

I've got a million ideas, so let's just use them all!

He gets into some scrapes, doesn't he?

He's a wicked-y wicked bad boi for life!

You're in luck there...

Thank you very much Sharka! These gold bars fell off the back of a galleon, and I just found them floating in the sea...