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Re: Help - Looking for Name of a Game
On Nov 18, 4:04 pm, Ikrananka <classified...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 13, 8:12 am, KP <kjpm...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 13, 7:30 am, me <mainyard2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > On Nov 12, 12:25 pm,Ikrananka<classified...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > I really hope that someone can help identify a game that I used to
> > > > love playing on the Apple ][. I remember playing it on a green
> > > > display and I believe the graphics were almost vector type. It was
> > > > essentially a shooter (horizontal if I remember correctly) with a
> > > > number of stages. I recall in one of the later stages there being a
> > > > mothership that you had to dock with with the word "MOTHER" on it. I
> > > > also recall that the last stage had you trying to land your spaceship
> > > > dropping vertically down a very narrow vertical shaft with the landing
> > > > pad at the very bottom.
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> > > > Fuel was involved in the game but I can't remember if one refueled via
> > > > the mothership docking or via fuel power ups.
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> > > > I used to play the game around 1979/1980/1981.
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> > > > I know my description is vague but hoping someone can help.
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> > > > Thanks
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> > > Threshold?
> > > Although that was a vertical shooter (Space Invaders type).
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> > I have an obscure shareware game called Star Pilot that basically fits
> > the description. Could that be it?- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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> That must be one obscure game - can't find any info online about it at
> all. Would love to know if this is the game - do you know where there
> is any info online - particularly screenshots?
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> Thanks
Just sent you the disk image. Let me know what you think. Other than
on the disk that I sent you (and which I made via ADTPro from the
original floppy), I have never seen a copy of this game on any other
floppy disk or disk image. And back in the days before I had ADTPro
set up, you can believe that I spent a lot of time searching--in
futility--for it!