I just can't play Uridium!!!

stupidget

I got a job lot of games from eBay last week and among them was Uridium. I loaded the game up and I find it completely unplayable. I'm a big fan of side-scroller shmups, but, for me this game is just too fiddly.

Is there some 'knack' to playing this game?

Retrobrothers

It takes practice. I was quite good at it back in the day - but my reflexes these days ain't what they used to be!

Once you get the hang of looping and side flipping the game will open up

MatGubbins

Use keyboard...... 'nuff said.

Morkin

I found it flippin' difficult when I replayed it after so many years. But then even back in the day I could usually only get to level 3 or 4.

I used to flip the ship a lot once the enemies started homing in which helped a bit. But even then I found it quite tough.

stupidget

Trouble is the keys are:

Left - Z
Right - X
Up - L
Down - SYM/SHIFT
Fire - ENTER

So playing it on my +2 is a shittin' nightmare :-)

joefish

You need to remember the deck layouts so you can pass left and right at speed and be ready to dodge anything before you see it. Not saying it's easy...

Spector

I loved it, Great atmosphere, cool shimmering effect on the scroll. [blasphemous comment]Better than the C64 version. [/blasphemous]

zx1

I've found some games hard to play nowadays that i used to play easily back in the day, not sure if it's my age or my shorter attention span.

stupidget

I think it's the fact that 'back in the day' you'd have probably spent a good chunk of your pocket money on the game, had to wait at least 5 minutes for it to load and would be prepared to at least give it a go. These day's I can fire a game up in 2 seconds from my DivMMC and think 'nope, too hard, can't be arsed to play it' :-)

Bedazzle

stupidget wrote: »

I think it's the fact that 'back in the day'

...and two friends were in same room, waiting for their time to play.