Celebrate: Heroes, a Tron Lightcycles or Nibbles done great!
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:50 pm
(Not sure where to put this, not really a review, so just in "games!")
I just tried Heroes (HOTU link) for the first time. Wow - I've played many Tron Lightcycles games, but this is an exciting and new version to me! They mention Nibbles, but I've not played that one - but I've played many Lightcycle clones from Novatron to the original Arcade and many versions beyond. (Though I'm still looking for a Tron:Legacy lightcycle PC game with curvy paths...)
Heroes has complex maps, with over/under levels, multiple computer players, automatic "don't crash" turns if possible, powerups and interesting map terrains, with cool VGA graphics, multiple lives, and sweet screen effects when others zap you or something.
Some (less than perfect - imprecative prtscrn on laptop!) screenshots
Lots of fun, very nice, and this game is very much the reason I'm going through older games to try stuff I've never seen before to find fun that I missed. It's definitely worth a few minutes to try it out! This is the DOS version; there is a windows version I haven't tried on sourceforge at http://heroes.sourceforge.net/.
I'm running in Dosbox .74 (latest), and have to choose option #1 "help" on the menu to play the game, the "play" option ("any key to go on") crashed to dos with a Page Fault error. While starting the game, it announces an "Eclipse Operating System" (E.O.S) that it's running on, very intriguing, not sure what that's about other than their own processing.
I just tried Heroes (HOTU link) for the first time. Wow - I've played many Tron Lightcycles games, but this is an exciting and new version to me! They mention Nibbles, but I've not played that one - but I've played many Lightcycle clones from Novatron to the original Arcade and many versions beyond. (Though I'm still looking for a Tron:Legacy lightcycle PC game with curvy paths...)
Heroes has complex maps, with over/under levels, multiple computer players, automatic "don't crash" turns if possible, powerups and interesting map terrains, with cool VGA graphics, multiple lives, and sweet screen effects when others zap you or something.
Some (less than perfect - imprecative prtscrn on laptop!) screenshots
Lots of fun, very nice, and this game is very much the reason I'm going through older games to try stuff I've never seen before to find fun that I missed. It's definitely worth a few minutes to try it out! This is the DOS version; there is a windows version I haven't tried on sourceforge at http://heroes.sourceforge.net/.
I'm running in Dosbox .74 (latest), and have to choose option #1 "help" on the menu to play the game, the "play" option ("any key to go on") crashed to dos with a Page Fault error. While starting the game, it announces an "Eclipse Operating System" (E.O.S) that it's running on, very intriguing, not sure what that's about other than their own processing.
