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Article #161002OT: Unknown old DOS game
From: Iceman
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:17
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:17
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Hi, I know this post doesn't fit in this group, but since I didn't find any alt.games.dos or *.classic or anything like that I post it here where I hope to get help... The game I'm searching for must have been released before 1989, perhaps even before 1987. It already used (16 or 256? I'm not sure) colors at ega resolution. I played it on a Kontron 286 10MHz PC with 640kb DOS MEM and 340kb extended MEM onboard. The gameplay was as follows: You control a little green figure (looked like a bird or sth...) just using the arrow keys. The playing screen showed some kind of ocean with lots of sinking little isles on it. Some went down pretty fast and some lasted longer. The goal was to get the coin on the isle in the upper right corner of the screen. You always start on an isle at the left bottom of the screen. To get the coin, you had to find a way over the sinking isles (after a while, they popped up again). On some of them were balls, blue balls, dark red or light red, as far as I remember. The blue balls gave you some extra points where the light red balls gave you lots of points or an extra life. The dark red were dangerous. They could be a trap (isle sinks immediately and you die) or call a monster (some big red ugly thing on two legs trying to get you) or give you points or extra life. Every time you collect a coin a new field of isles appeares with a new coin in the upper right and you starting at the lower left. The farer you got the smaller and more became the isles (start was about 4x4 isles and while you collect coins you get up to levels with 10x10 isles or so). So please, if anybody can remember that little funny game, would you please help me? Thanks so far, Ice
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: iceman@counterstrike.de (Iceman) Newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander Subject: OT: Unknown old DOS game Date: 28 Jan 2004 10:17:08 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: <7b3566f2.0401281017.370253af@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.24.191.220 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1075313828 19887 127.0.0.1 (28 Jan 2004 18:17:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:17:08 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit