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arkanoid and such

milemile
edited July 2007 in Games
ive been playing this game for ages recently, and it was one of my fave games as a kid.

so two things.

can you recomend similar style games. ie repetative puzzle type games like this or tetris

and i swear i remember there being one of those power-ups that made your ship smaller than it should be. not going from its extended type to its normal state, but just smaller? any ideas, or am i just confused.
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  • QuazarQuazar
    edited July 2007
    I think there was a power-up to make the bat smaller in Krakout.... might be mistaken, but you are right in thinking it was a power-up (or rather power-down!) in one of them as I remember it too.
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  • milemile
    edited July 2007
    Quazar wrote: »
    I think there was a power-up to make the bat smaller in Krakout.... might be mistaken, but you are right in thinking it was a power-up (or rather power-down!) in one of them as I remember it too.

    i knew i wasn't toataly daft. it may have been an arkanoid clone, but i dont think i ever played krackout, id have remembered the loading screen for sure.
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002768
    it may have been a version on the amiga.

    im still pretty sure though it was there on the original arkanoid. :?
  • NickHNickH
    edited July 2007
    mile wrote: »
    and i swear i remember there being one of those power-ups that made your ship smaller than it should be. not going from its extended type to its normal state, but just smaller? any ideas, or am i just confused.

    The R pill in Arkanoid 2.
  • milemile
    edited July 2007
    NickH wrote: »
    The R pill in Arkanoid 2.

    i never played arkanoid 2. thats why im really confused. :o
  • RickardRickard
    edited July 2007
    mile wrote: »
    i never played arkanoid 2. thats why im really confused. :o

    And you are sure that there is none in Arkanoid 1?
    I played mostly A1, and very little A2, but also remember that your ship could be smaller if you catched the wrong type.
  • milemile
    edited July 2007
    Rickard wrote: »
    And you are sure that there is none in Arkanoid 1?
    I played mostly A1, and very little A2, but also remember that your ship could be smaller if you catched the wrong type.

    yeah, ive been playing on my DS for a while now. it would have to be a freak chance that i am missing this power-down everytime.
  • milemile
    edited July 2007
    had a look in the instructions, and it isnt mentioned there.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2007
    I'm sure it's an "S" in just Arkanoid.
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  • NickHNickH
    edited July 2007
    S == Slow.

    R was introduced in Ark 2.
  • NickHNickH
    edited July 2007
    YS reviews with more details:

    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/arkanoid.htm

    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/arkanoidii.htm
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited July 2007
    I basically made this thread a couple of weeks ago...lots of suggestions in here: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16532

    :-)
  • milemile
    edited July 2007
    def chris wrote: »
    I basically made this thread a couple of weeks ago...lots of suggestions in here: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16532

    :-)

    oops, soz.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited July 2007
    no probs... there was some good suggestions in that thread, I tried out most of them. but 'Krakout' is still the one to go for IMO.
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