Round 42

Conversation started Jan 3, 2013 at 17:13.

ruda.almeida

Jan 3, 2013 17:13

If I ask for help on identifying the name of a game, do I get a ban?

Ben Brocka

Alternately, blood of your enemies jelly beans

Jason Berkan

@ruda.almeida No. Though if you ask the question on the site, it will get closed. But as you are here, ask away.

Grace Note

@ruda.almeida No we won't suspend for that, but we don't allow it on the main Q&A. You can freely ask in here, though.

ruda.almeida

Thanks.

Ronan Forman

We may suspend you if it's a terrible game though, so ask cautiously.

kalina

Jan 3, 2013 17:15

don't be mean to the new guys

Ronan Forman

@kalina Then who can I be mean to?

murgatroid99

@RonanForman But he might not know it's a terrible game until we help him find out what game it is

ruda.almeida

It's a VERY old game (possibly 20 years or more), it's a monocromatic vertical scroller with a small shooter ship, that goes up one screen at a time, when you reach the top of the screen, or kill all the enemies on the current screen, the level changes. The name is something like "level [number]", or "stage [number]", if memory isn't failing me

kalina

@RonanForman gnomeslice, obviously

Ronan Forman

@murgatroid99 Hence the risk.

agent86

Jan 3, 2013 17:16

@RonanForman I should suspend you for threatening to suspend other people. insuspension.

Ronan Forman

@ruda.almeida Space invaders?

Ben Brocka

@agent86 You're suspended for causing insuspension

murgatroid99

@RonanForman in space invaders you don't go up the screen, the enemies go down

agent86

@BenBrocka we have to go deeper

ruda.almeida

@murgatroid99 exactly

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Jan 3, 2013 17:18

That description fits any old vertical scrolling space shooter

And there definitely are a lot of those

ruda.almeida

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I bet you are right ;___;

murgatroid99

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm pretty sure that in a lot of them, the player's ship doesn't go all the way to the top of the screen (at least the ones I've seen)

agent86

@ruda.almeida what platform was this? (DOS?)

GnomeSlice

@kalina ಠ_ಠ

ruda.almeida

I do remember in one of the first levels, the enemies are bat-like (or seagull-like)

Yeah, DOS

And the name was something like level 32, or level 42, or level 54m or level whateverthenumber.

And each 5 levels or so there were no enemies and you just had to travel from bottom to top of the screen, avoiding hitting the narrow path

murgatroid99

Jan 3, 2013 17:21

@ruda.almeida the name of the game?

kalina

@GnomeSlice <3

GnomeSlice

@ruda.almeida THIS sounds familiar...

@kalina </3

kalina

@GnomeSlice :(

agent86

@ruda.almeida how did you get the game? did it come in a retail box? shareware?

ruda.almeida

I was 11 or 12 and my uncle had it on his CGA-green-screen XT.

Together with Alley Cat and Arkanoid

murgatroid99

Jan 3, 2013 17:22

Wikipedia knows of no DOS game with a name starting with the word "Level"

ruda.almeida

Maybe I'm wrong about the name, but every other thing I'm pretty sure I'm correct

Jason Berkan

@ruda.almeida Probably shareware - those are tough to find any copies or data on.

agent86

@ruda.almeida what year would this have been?

ruda.almeida

@JasonBerkan Yeah, I know, (completely unrelated to my question) I just found a CD from 1995 full of shareware yesterday and I was going to copy it, but it felt to the floor and cracked =/

agent86

@ruda.almeida actually, while I'm asking the questions, look at this list and just give me any info you've got :)

ruda.almeida

Jan 3, 2013 17:25

@agent86 Well, I played it on about 1993/94 but it could be much older

Alley Cat was from 84, and I played it the same year

@agent86 Hey, thanks for the link!

agent86

@ruda.almeida yeah, it just helps to be able to say "no games newer than 1993"

ruda.almeida

Found it on mobygames

Thank you guys

Love you guys! =) =) =)

Happy new year

Been looking for it for a whole week

mobygames.com/game/dos/round-42/screenshots

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murgatroid99

I'm glad you found your game

agent86

@ruda.almeida hey, congrats :)

murgatroid99

Though, this is the perfect example of why we don't allow these questions on the main site

ruda.almeida

Jan 3, 2013 17:30

I know

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