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Re: Cleaning up the Asimov Want List
On Monday, 16 July 2012 21:43:17 UTC+10, Hot Rod wrote:
> On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:32:43 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
> > > New reduced list
> > > ----------------
> > >
> > > Thunder Cloud
> >
> > Cool, glad that's still there. I added "Thunder Cloud" to the list ages ago (mid-1990's ?). It was a really crappy shoot-em'up game that I had back in the early 1980's (82 or 83). IIRC, you controlled a cloud that could move up and down the screen and shoot enemies on the side of the screen. The general game play was a bit like space invaders turned on the side - but with no barriers, different enemies, etc. A crappy game, but we are talking about preservation, not preservation of just the best stuff.
> >
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> Hmm, that sounds an awful lot like Thunder Bombs from Penguin Software (1982). Perhaps that could be it? There's a copy on Asimov in the file-based games section.
Yes, that's it ! Thanks Hot Rod ! :)
Although I think this is a later version (or the released version) of what I saw - IIRC, the version I saw was really jerky and only had enemies on the left. Then again I guess my memory could be faulty. ;)
Thunder Bombs is actually quite a good game.
Please cross "Thunder Cloud" off the list - it is Thunder Bombs.
Moose