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Brick tile in games

MorkinMorkin
edited August 2014 in Games
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This single character brick tile must have been used in loads of games. Here's an (inverted) example from Cavelon.

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What other games used it? Wonder which Speccy game was the first to use it... ;-)
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  • morphmorph
    edited August 2014
    Thro' the wall :)
  • MatGubbinsMatGubbins
    edited August 2014
    Great graphic!
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  • Dr BEEPDr BEEP
    edited August 2014
    Loderunner
  • fogfog
    edited August 2014


    and I bet I'm not the only one who thought of that :D

    loads of games had em, errm the wally weeks things? 1001 break outgames like traz , batty , arkanoid and the space panic type games ?

    whats that quasimodo typin game that was good like hunchback.. i recalled that had udg bricks also.
  • MorkinMorkin
    edited August 2014
    morph wrote: »
    Thro' the wall :)

    Thro' the wall bricks look a bit different.

    There must be a 1982 game that used this particular tile, but I haven't found it yet..
  • morphmorph
    edited August 2014
    Morkin wrote: »
    Thro' the wall bricks look a bit different.

    There must be a 1982 game that used this particular tile, but I haven't found it yet..

    I concur. Doing a bit of digging, that sort of tile is ideal for Space Panic type games. The earliest Space Panic clone that I can find is Monsters in Hell by Softek. This appears to have come out in March 1983, according to the advert in Home Computing Weekly. Manic Miner was August 1983.

    ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/m/MonstersInHell.gif
  • colecole
    edited August 2014
    Jet Set Willy II - the sewer screens. The blocks upside down to the example you've given.
  • gungun
    edited August 2014
    bomberman, 1983
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  • RorthronRorthron
    edited August 2014
    The bricks in Thro' the Wall, Lode Runner and Monsters in Hell are slightly different.

    The earliest example I can think of is Pssst (1983). After that it's Hunchback (1984), Cavelon (also 1984) and Hunchback II (1985).

    I'm not sure the graphic is as common as you would have thought.
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  • colecole
    edited August 2014
    The bricks either side of the lift in Dynamite Dan; also around the strong room.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2014
    I've used it plenty of times, although not that exact brick I tend to have just 1 row of pixels between bricks, it looks like there's 2 in that block?
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  • STeaMSTeaM
    edited August 2014
    Eric & the Floaters
  • daveysludgedaveysludge
    edited August 2014
    Thrusta...
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