Remember Super Sprint or Championship Sprint? Super Sprint and it’s successor Championship Sprint, were arcade games released in 1986 by Atari Games. They were cool racing games that were played on a single screen. You could have up to 3 players racing at the same time. After 3 laps the winner advances to the next circuit, with 8 circuits in all. As the player goes to higher levels, more obstacles keep appearing, such as oil puddles, and little tornados. If the player crashes into a wall, a helicopter comes and replaces the car. This makes you lose valuable time needed to win. You can also upgrade your car at the end of each race, by picking up little golden wrenches. This was the most fun, picking up the wrench before your opponent got it. I used think the graphics were really high resolution back in the day, don’t know if that was the case, but it seemed so to me. Championship Sprint, loses one of the drivers, and does different tracks, although the game is pretty much identical. In any case this was one of the really fun games (and towards my last days at the nickel arcade were actually freeplay). So it’s with much anticipation that I play Little Racers by Milkstone Studios, that looks like it could fill in the hole that not playing those old arcade games left.
Posts Tagged ‘xbla’
(xblig) Little Racers – See ya’ later little racer, after while great big tire…
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009(xblig) Adventurer Pets HD – Platforming Pets better get the Vet!
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Sometimes you just want some straight-up platforming action, and that’s what Adventurer Pets HD by Arrogancy Games aims to do. The official description is “Adventurer Pets is best described as a ‘competitive arcade style platformer.’ The game is modeled as a mix of classic arcade style single screen platformers and competitive multiplayer party games. There are two single player modes available and one local mutiplayer, which supports from 1-4 players.” Unfortunately this really doesn’t seem to describe the game. I guess there’s no story, so I guess you’re just supposed to run around and jump on stuff. Maybe there’s some collection stuff as I believe is shown in the trailer. Hopefully, this proves to be more fun than it looks from the outset. So let’s as the Brits say “Have a go”.
(xblig) Totem – Me Likem Totem
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
According to Merriam-Webster online a totem is “1) an object (as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry, and is also a usually carved or painted representation of such an object and 2) one that serves as an emblem or revered symbol”. Although the term is of Ojibwa (largest group of Native Americans north of Mexico) origin, totemistic beliefs are not limited to Native American Indians. Similar totemism-like beliefs have been historically present throughout much of the world, including Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Australia and the Arctic polar region. A totem pole is a large sculpture carved out of a tree, and may include these totems as described above. What does this have to do with our next XBLCG game? It’s called Totem, of course! According to the official description Totem is “Intense matching Totem destruction! Two game modes…survival and adventure complete with 28 levels and 4 elemental bosses.” Let’s see if it stacks up to that definition.