Re: Anti-Gravity

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

On Friday, July 13, 2012 7:05:36 PM UTC-5, Apple2Games wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:59:58 PM UTC-4, (unknown) wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 3 July 2012 10:12:14 UTC+10, Steve Nickolas  wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Hot Rod wrote:
> > > 
> > > > And yep, even after 25 years, it's still me. :)
> > > 
> > > O_______________________O
> > > 
> > > *picks jaw off floor*
> > 
> > LOL, same here.  Thanks for uploading Hot Rod and for the background information.
> > 
> > 
> > Location: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/action/ANTI_GRAVITY.dsk
> > 
> > Controls:
> > <- (left arrow) = Left
> > -> (right arrow) = Right
> > Space bar = Turn force on / off (see On/Off at top of screen)
> > 
> > Goal: navigate the arrows and blocks to and collect the little numbered icons.  
> > 
> > When you collect the last icon (number 1) you go to the next level.
> > 
> > A thinking man's Pac-Man.  :)
> > 
> > Another great Apple 2 game that I had never seen / heard about before. :)
> > 
> > Moose's Software Valley - Established July, 1996.
> 
> 
> 
> Well I spent the better part of 2 hours playing this on cAndy Apple emulator while on a conference call this morning. :)  Never saw this game before... will have to do a write up for the site.


I'll also mention that the softdocs for the game are in a text file on the disk (in case it wasn't noticed).

IIRC, this wasn't a commercially published game.  Possibly it was one they shopped around for a publisher, but I don't know.  Or it just could be an early work that was unpublished (ala Peter Ward's Demonic Decks or South Pacific Quest). I can't recall if the authors had any other programs published.

There might be another version of it floating around, but I don't know that it has the level editor like this version does.