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Title: Platypus - A very unique scrolling shooter.
Post by: skid_68 on January 11, 2007, 06:57:09 pm

I havent tried it out myself yet. But Im sure some of you on here would want to. It does look pretty cool, check it out.

http://www.retro64.com/platypus.asp

Title: Re: Platypus - A very unique scrolling shooter.
Post by: ahofle on January 11, 2007, 07:08:37 pm

Wow that looks very cool.  I love claymation.  I'm gonna try it out tonight hopefully.

Title: Re: Platypus - A very unique scrolling shooter.
Post by: TOK on January 11, 2007, 09:11:20 pm

Unless its been fixed, it's not a very cab friendly game. Controls are not mappable, and it requires a mouse.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=28028.0

Title: Re: Platypus - A very unique scrolling shooter.
Post by: Naru on January 11, 2007, 09:47:24 pm

It's pretty neat!
I like the ships, but the backgrounds in the demo
are a little boring.

You can use a free program called  Joy To Key to
map your keys and mouse to your joysticks and buttons
if you don't have a trackball in your control panel.

Most of you guys are smarter than me and probably
already know about it.

Title: Re: Platypus - A very unique scrolling shooter.
Post by: ahofle on January 12, 2007, 10:53:19 am

Oh man this is great for those of you with a trackball on your cabinet.  You still can't remap inputs that I could find (pretty dumb in this day and age if you ask me).  But if you have a trackball, that won't be an issue because it plays much better that way.  Plays like Feeding Frenzy or that really nice free Linux game Chromium.  I'd highly recommend Chromium for people with trackball cabinets (there is a windows version available):

http://reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/

Title: Re: Platypus - A very unique scrolling shooter.
Post by: Circo on January 19, 2007, 02:43:44 am

Joy2Key is great for joysticks but is there a free or preferred program to map the mouse functions to keys for use with an arcade panel with an ipac or something similar.  Preferably one that can be started and stopped via command line.

Title: Re: Platypus - A very unique scrolling shooter.
Post by: clockwork on January 19, 2007, 08:09:39 am

Just tried it out. It's okay. The graphics are very interesting but the game play is nothing special. I liked the mouse control. I was also able to control a ship with arrow keys. Free trial gives you an hour of play, so definitely worth checking out if you think you might like it. I wouldn't pay $20 for it.

Title: Re: Platypus - A very unique scrolling shooter.
Post by: clockwork on January 20, 2007, 08:12:32 am

I played around with a couple other games on this site. I actually like "Bricks of Camelot." It's an interesting Breakout type of game. I'd highly recommend trying it if you're a Breakout fan.