Re: Indie Retro News: Montezuma's Revenge Director's Cut - 1980's Atari 8-bit Platforming classic gets a PC demo remake

On Sun, 08 Sep 2024 05:04:25 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:33:53 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:

On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:46:20 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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DId you ever finish it? It's so hard especially thought dark levels without the torch!

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No. I finished very few games back in the days of the C64. The only
ones I did finish were a few adventure games and some text adventures.
The only reason I finished those was because I had the hint books.

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Ha, I bought the hintbook for Championship Lode Runner back then. :D

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Loderunner was one of those games I played so often I started seeing
it in real life. I'd read a book and see the little men running back
and forth on the lines of text. That was then I knew I had to start
cutting back. ;-)

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The thing was, I never actually got that /good/ at the game. It's one
of those games I've never finished (I got to about level 50 before
inevitably getting stuck on some difficult part and running out of
lives). It didn't help that the game lacked any save capability, so
you'd have to restart from the beginning every time.

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Did you make your own levels? I did.

I remember vaguely that the game had functionality, but I can't recall
that I used it beyond some basic tinkering. You know; the usual 'make
a level out of your name' sort of thing. The memories are extremely
hazy, but I think there was some technical issue that kept me from
getting into it more (something along the lines of a crash or I
couldn't save to disk, or whatever) so that I'd always have to restart
from fresh.

It's was a long, long, time ago.