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High score competition #150 : Thief
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HanoiBoi:
That's marketing for you.  But just in case, I'll be sure to grip mine a little tighter.

What I found more amusing is this, from KLOV: "The game uses a continuous loop tape with actual police band radio banter."

I don't recall what the word 'actual' meant back in '82, but I dont think its changed much.

As for kixfan's score...nicely done dog drool.  I made a few attempts on an impatient day.  No luck so far.  Will try again as the week progresses.  Please don't sandbag any higher scores.  If you beat it, please post it.  We need to know what we're shooting for...or when to just lie down.
kixfan:

--- Quote from: gildahl on October 07, 2014, 10:29:10 pm ---No worthy score yet, but I found a review of this game from my August 1982 issue of Electronic Games magazine worthy of a laugh. 

According to it Pacific Novelty's Thief talks a good game and "uses the most advanced voice chip technology to do it.  Thief boasts the revolutionary Texas instruments 5200 "phonetic" chip which delivers a steady patter that is occasionally so amusing gamers will literally drop their joysticks in astonishment.  The sound, produced syllable by syllable rather than as entire words, is used to simulate the voice over a police radio...Thief is primarily an audio triumph, one of the few video contests that deserves an arcader's attention just because it sounds so good".

Not quite accurate, the voice effects were actually recorded on a tape loop.

Anyone drop their joysticks yet?

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LOL!

Some where I read the crash sound also is a tape loop.   I was trying to figure out how they would have done that?  Can't imagine they would have had 2 tape players.   So my guess is the tape player is stereo and so one side was the banter and the other side the crash sound?
pbj:
Imagine one channel was banter, the other channel was crash sound effects.

I took an electronics class in high school and someone brought up the Star Wars arcade game and, hey, how come we couldn't make a circuit that talked.  The teacher INSISTED those voices were done with a tape player inside the machine.  Took me about 5 years to realize he was an idiot, then another 5 years to realize that quite a few 70s games had 8-tracks and cassettes in them.  So while wrong in regards to Star Wars, it wasn't a bad educated guess.

Can we please pick something that doesn't suck for the next game?

kixfan:
What are you suggesting?    This game is AWESOME!

HaHa!  I won't have any say in the next game.    You need to play Shark attack first then you will appreciate this game!    I didn't know people could scream under water.
JDFan:

--- Quote from: pbj on October 08, 2014, 12:19:34 pm ---Can we please pick something that doesn't suck for the next game?

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If you practice a bit more and win this one you can select the next one !  :cheers:
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