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Grid Wars - 5/5 Stars (Pictures Included)
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ahofle on November 07, 2007, 04:37:44 pm ---Where do you draw the line though? Blizzard Creations could probably be sued by Williams (or whatever company they have become) for the same reasons since this is obviously a Robotron remake.
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20 years is easily enough time for the line to have been obliterated. Pac Man is no longer a highly innovative and profitable concept in terms of gameplay... in 1980, you better believe it was.
Organic Jerk:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 08, 2007, 04:47:32 pm ---20 years is easily enough time for the line to have been obliterated. Pac Man is no longer a highly innovative and profitable concept in terms of gameplay...
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But from what it looks like, Robotron (albeit with edits) is, no?
ChadTower:
Keep in mind Robotron wasn't exactly a pioneering control scheme even when it first came out. It was right around the same time as Black Widow and there has always been debate about which company actually came up with that design first.
melarky:
I finally got around to installing this on my cabinet. Thanks for the review.
I have geometry wars on my xbox, and so I have played both, and while they do look similar, and play similar, they are different games. I think geometry wars wins hands down on the "graphics" front (not saying grid wars looks bad, but the effects are clearly higher quality on geometry wars). Game play wise, I think I actually like grid wars better though. I feel like my acheivements in grid wars are far more often contributed to skill rather than luck, and it always feels the opposite with geometry wars.
Again, I like both games, and I play both games, but they are definately different enough to make them a different experience. Thanks again for the review.
melarky:
--- Quote from: Space Fractal on February 17, 2007, 07:04:46 am --- It toally :lame: !!!!!
It a great game, the only downside is you can really mess that game with the "settings" options, wich can't been disabled.
But since sourcecode was included, and I use BlitzMax as my primary Language, I have created a new exe with disabled "Settings and "Sure" screen.
http://www.arcademusicbox.com/files/other/gridwars.zip
Now this game should been 100% cabinet safe.
NB. Remember to test exe with your antivirus app first.
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I am still playing and loving this game. I found out I had an older version of the code a while back and finally found a newer one (still don't know if I have the latest since there isn't much info out there about the game).
I wonder if you could modify it with BlitzMax to use more mame specific controls (like only bring the settings up if you click tab, and push the player 1 start button to start the game instead of the bomb etc...)
If you haven't tried this game yet, give it a go.
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