Hi Phil.
No spoilers please, I'm about to watch it as I've been at a music festival
all day.
A doctor who audio game would be awsome, but the history of doctor who
games has been pretty pathetic.
I remember in the early 90's, a doctor who game for pc got the lowest
ratings of any amigar title, since basically the concept of having the
doctor in a side scrolling shmup (and a pretty dire one at that), was
rather stupid. There have been some more adventure titles which worked
rather well, (I have seen doctor who if, but in mainstream terms there
actually have been full on complete audio visual interactive puzzle
adventure games0, and of course since doctor who monsters such as the
Daleks and cybermen are so vocally distinct, they'd be perfect for an audio
game.
An arcade game could be set in the whoniverse, but probably couldn't
feature the doctor, for example an arcade game destroying daleks as a unit
officer or maybe a human in one of the various Dalek wars (the Dalek empire
series from Big finish has more than enough galactic wars), not to mention
the time war of course, though the Doctor in an action game is less certain
for all that the third doctor was fond of car chases and using his venusian
akaido.
Thinking about it I did once play a rather fun little graphical retro arcade
game where you were the doctor, and basically the daleks chased you on a 2D
playing field scattered with mines, and you had to trick the daleks into
either running into the mines or shooting each other. That was pretty fun
for a five minute humourous break.
Then again, the Daleks are so awsome and powerful, having a one shot to
destroy style arcade game feels quite the injustice to everyone's favourite
pepperpots of peril :D.
Either way from what I've seen in retro games freeware games with doctor who
graphics and sfx are fine by the bbc, and I've not heard of them crucifying
anyone over copywrite, though of course it's possible.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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