Although I never did quite get the “up is down and down is up” thing, I was very excited when this game made its way to home systems back in 1983. I owned the Commodore 64 version and thought Parker Brothers did a superb job on porting it over.
LucasArts recently released this game, and now when you shoot down Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter he screams, “Noooooooooooooooo!!!” Wait, that hasn’t happened … yet.
drquest: I use to work at a Bugles Boys store back when malls were all the rage.
Drahken: Yeah, that’s the one. Man, it’s been a long time since I saw one of those. I had completely...
Doug: @Drahken, you mean this?: http://www.ebay.com/ itm/Vintage-Pac-Man- Wind-Up-Plastic-Toy- Tomy-1980s-/16072...
Peter FoxHusky: Dar, no monitor but a color TV for both the C64 and for just watching television. Drahken: Dunno about the toys, I never had any. The commercials made them look good, but they also look like a lot...
ClaymationWerewolf: @Doug that’s really funny! When I watched the episode I actually did wonder if I was... Drahken: I vaguely remember sky commanders, though I never watched it at the time, I mostly just remember the ads...
Daniel Th1rte3n: Another excellent piece! I was aware of this property as a kid, but never owned any of the toys,... Doug: Yeah, there were toys. I had one. Were the Aussy and Jamaican bad guys? The way you describe them and the...
vinvectrex: This one near the top of my list of toys I wanted but never got. And, had I gotten it, I wouldn’t...
I remember this ad, it was featured in Archie’s comics. I consider this ad as a classic and I even made an
avatar out of it a long, long time ago.
I have a couple of versions of the C64 port of this game. All are essentially the same game but for some odd reason they all run slightly different from each other.
@CritAnime I was never that impressed with the Atari 2600 version…too hard to control with a joystick. I liked the C64 version I received though! :)
It was a very impressive port considering the C64 ran at a slower speed, didn’t have hardware floating point math or vector graphics.