Space Wars
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I hadn't heard of that. I may be dating myself here but I played a similar game when I was in elementary school it was black and white and could do 2 players. I think it was on an early Apple.
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Thanks for the tips. I might just open a Twitter account for this. I am working on another version of this that translates the controls so you can play 4 players with 4 individual joycons. Are there plans to allow controls() to work based on the switch grip order? What I mean is if I setup the joycons as 4 different controllers in the Switch gui I would hope to be able to reference them as their own unique controller with identical names for the buttons and stick. And of course SL and SR....
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@gilman No plans that I am aware of but that would seem like a good idea
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@gilman . Original Spacewars was made in 1962.
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Great! Just needs a star in the middle that sucks you in ohhhhh and my fave bit, when you shot the other players ship and didn't get a perfect hit, some of the ship would break off and it would then be slower. loved that. Good work so far!
@DomDom 62? really.. woah I could have sworn it was 76-77ish.
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Me too but Wikipedia never lies.
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@DomDom said in Space Wars:
Me too but Wikipedia never lies.
No, but it can be talking about different things! The SpaceWar (no s) from '62 would be the PDP-11 version whereas the version from the late 70's that I'm pretty sure will be what Steve was referring to will be the arcade game from Cinematronics
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@Martin said in Space Wars:
@DomDom said in Space Wars:
Me too but Wikipedia never lies.
No, but it can be talking about different things! The SpaceWar (no s) from '62 would be the PDP-11 version whereas the version from the late 70's that I'm pretty sure will be what Steve was referring to will be the arcade game from Cinematronics
Yeah, it is.
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I've updated this with engine burn behind the ship, limitted fuel, and unique debris from each of the ships. Id love to hear from someone with a 4 controller setup how it plays with 4 players. I think I am done with this now, should I post it in the great list of game codes?
Download Code: ZL223MNDS4
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Looks great! I will try it with the kids tonight!