Re: Defender of the World

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article <52ejli$k8u@crl5.crl.com>, joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn) writes...
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>As I wrote in an e-mail to David, Defender of the World is even
>better and more phenomenal than I imagined it would be. Only one
>level is complete, but I have a feeling it's going to take me a while
>to figure out how to clear that level. It's great fun as it is. It's
>kind of like Defender and it's similar to Space Fox.

    Actually, titles like Space Fox and Defender of the World are
adaptations of a Japanese video-game called "Gradius". Comparing it
to Atari's Defender is going a little too far back... :)

>And, like David says in the docs, it really seems necessary to save
>up your Powerups so that you can be shieded after getting through the
>asteroid belt.

    My favorite power-up is the fireball (magma), especially if you
triple it's power. That should get you right through to the end of
level-1 or higher.

    I should mention a little easter-egg though. Pressing Apple-Q
during play will instantly advance you to the next level. This
allows you to jump to level-3 and see the parallex scrolling or
screen-shaking earthquake effect (nice with an accelerator).

    IMHO, this is one of the best shoot-em-up games available on 
the IIgs, my only complaint is that it could use more professional
looking graphics (and perhaps a bit of background music, as in
the original Gradius :-)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca