Re: FREE GAME: Kill Lnight

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 06:19:37 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
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I tis $10 now.  Sort of looks like Robotron which is one of my
favorite arcade games of all time.

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That game was fun and hard!

I quite enjoyed Robotron when I was younger, but it was one of the
games that dissauded me from arcade games and had me seeking shelter
in the adventure and strategy genres.

Sure, it was fun to scamper about, dodging projectiles and rescuing
humans seconds before they got chomped by the robots. I absolutely
loved the idea of the game --a post-apocalyptic setting world where
humans were the endangered species and I, a genetically engineered
super-soldier, had to fight the robots to rescue the few survivors--
felt amazingly fresh.

But the endlessness of the game turned me off against arcades. It was
just the same over and over again, except a tad bit faster and more
unfair until electronic reflexes surpassed my own. It felt so utterly
pointless (not to mention unfair) that by the fifth or six level, I
usually lost interest. And --thanks (at least in part) to Robotron-- I
realized that was a common mechanic to pretty much every arcade game.
It really put me off video games for a while.