#ScoreAttack

2024-05-26

đŸ•šī¸ Title: Cosmosmash
đŸĻŠī¸ What's: A clone of Astrosmash (1981), a shoot them up where UFOs try to destroy the Earth with a rain of projectiles
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đŸĨī¸ Update: 1.5.0
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đŸ“Œī¸ Changes: perso.b2b2c.ca/~sarrazip/dev/c
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đŸ•ļī¸ A side view of the game area, with at the bottom of the screen the cannon of the player who has just fired 2 bursts of laser cannon and is moving on a green rail, below the score, the previous best score and the number of lives remaining. Above, several types of projectiles (asteroid rain, spinner, guided missiles) during their descent.

đŸ“šī¸ Cosmosmash is a libre clone of Astrosmash (1981, on Intellivision console), a shoot them up where UFOs try to destroy the Earth with a rain of projectiles. The player's objective is to score as many points as possible by minimizing the number of projectiles reaching the ground, by shooting (manually or automatically) with the laser cannon that he moves along a rail (vs. Missile Command where the batteries are fixed). The difficulty lies in the increasing speed of the projectiles, their variety and behavior (asteroid rains, some of which split in 2 at the first shot, guided missiles, spinning bombs aka spinner, UFO shots). A cannon is lost if it is hit (as a last resort it can be teleported to a random location) or if a spinner hits the ground. The score increases with the number of targets hit, but decreases by half if the cannon is destroyed (one cannon is gained every 1000 points) or if a meteor hits the ground. The game has 6 levels with changing background color, speed and scoring. Devilish :)).
2023-03-18

Mar 18, 2023 - Day 77 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 83

Game: Horatio Goes Snowboarding
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Jul 10, 2021
Library Date: Jul 23, 2021
Unplayed: 603d (1y7m23d)
Playtime: 16m

There are some games that are difficult for me to review, that are not necessarily bad games, but I feel like my wiring makes it hard to assess them properly.

Horatio Goes Snowboarding (HGS) is one of those games.
HGS is a reasonably simple score attack game. You play a blue sphere in snow gear, who goes snowboarding.

It feels like a modernised mashup of Frogger, and Ski or Die, with a DnB soundtrack.

The first part of the game (or Frogger) has you crossing several roads and trying to avoid cars, to pick up a snowboard, and then get to the choppa!

The second part (Ski or Die), has you snowboarding downhill, trying to chain slaloms, and avoid obstacles, until you reach the end... and do the same thing again, until you run out of money (crashing results in medical bills, and the snowboards must be purchased).

And that's it.

My fine motor control isn't fantastic, and I end up missing most of the slaloms, but collecting a lot of trees. The controls (L & R triggers, or the LH stick) feel a little sloppy.

I just find it a little too frustrating to remain interested, and was counting down the minutes.

I'm sorry, Horatio Goes Snowboarding. It's not you, it's me. It's just a bit:

2: Meh

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