It might be possible, but I sure had trouble completing Qbert. That one 
was pretty tough.


michael feir wrote:
> A great one for conversion would be the sequel to Qbert. The original 
> Qbert
> would be extremely difficult to make accessible I think since it involves
> jumping around on a three-dimentional pyramid of cubes. The second one,
> Qbert's Cubes, has a flat field of cubes. Jumping on a cube would 
> cause it
> to rotate so a new side with a different colour faced the screen. You 
> had to
> land on the cubes such that all of them matched a target colour. Enemies
> would jump around and undo your work or try to kill you. You could 
> crush one
> kind between cubes by timing your jump away so that it landed on a 
> cube that
> was still rotating. Jumping off the side of the field would still kill 
> you
> as in the first game. There were a few more elements to it but that one
> ought to be able to make accessible.
> Michael Feir
> Creator and former Editor of Audyssey Magazine
> 1996-2004
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "allan thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: audyssey: Old school games
>
>
> > Hey, does anyone remember Robotron, at least I think that was what 
> it was
> > called. You were the runaway human, and you were being  followed by 
> robots
> > with lasers. You had a laser as well and the controllers for the 
> game were
> > two joysticks, one to move your guy and a second to shoot in the 
> direction
> > you wanted to shoot. It was a top down view and you could shoot in the
> > eight
> > cardinal directions.
> > man, I also  remember Death Race 2000. That had a steering wheel on a
> > floor
> > unit, up to four people could play. Pedestrians would cross the 
> screen and
> > you got points for running them down, if any game should be 
> translated to
> > an audible version it should be that,lol
> > allan
> > The truth will set you free...
> > Jesus of Nazareth  33 AD
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> >> Dig Dug was awesome. I also remember the Donkey Kong series, the 
> version
> >> 2 and the JR offshoot were pretty good. Another favorite was Kangaroo.
> >> She had boxing gloves on and could punch the monkeys after her. How
> >> about another classic one? Astroids. Music and effects were not the 
> best
> >> but man oh man, that game was fun.
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