The pause button on early Ultimate: Play the Game games, because you had to continuously hold it down for it to pause the game. Stellar bit of design, that one!
The 'hover' button in Jetpac, considering I didn't know it existed for over 20 years...
Me neither ! ...
and also...talking of decelerate...if there is a brake button (in most racers) it's pointless.. you just let go of accelerate if you know what's good for ya.
oops reading the tittle sprung to poor mind the boobed mutant whore from Total Recall. In this sense of redundancy having mulltiple keys for the same function would help on tablets if you weren't born with three thumbs
If you're asteroid mining in Elite, the side view is pretty useful. It's better to put mining lasers at the sides and have a offensive weapon at the back of the ship.
How about the "sweep back wings" button in T.L.L.?
Although it was undoubtedly cool because it made the already impressive scrolling go even faster, I don't think there was any point in flying faster was there?
In fact, you really had go the slower speed just to navigate around the objects at low level and hit the targets.
I can't help thinking Costa Panayi got the idea for the Tornado Low Level from the notion that the Tornados often were flown very low to avoid radar detection. Then he had to somehow incorporate into the game the aircraft's swing wing ability, even though it's not needed in the game!
Well there wasn't really an "area" to get to as such. All the targets tended to be within a screen's width scroll of each other. And flying faster used fuel up quicker.
I found I had to refuel partway through clearing each set of 5 targets anyway, even at slow speed.
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Me neither ! ...
and also...talking of decelerate...if there is a brake button (in most racers) it's pointless.. you just let go of accelerate if you know what's good for ya.
Wait... Jet Pac has a hover button???????
You could also change the view angles using 0, P, ENTER and SPACE. Did anyone actually use them?
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(Comes to not having the instructions.)
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That's me looking sheepish, guilty and silly all at once.
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If you're asteroid mining in Elite, the side view is pretty useful. It's better to put mining lasers at the sides and have a offensive weapon at the back of the ship.
Although it was undoubtedly cool because it made the already impressive scrolling go even faster, I don't think there was any point in flying faster was there?
In fact, you really had go the slower speed just to navigate around the objects at low level and hit the targets.
I can't help thinking Costa Panayi got the idea for the Tornado Low Level from the notion that the Tornados often were flown very low to avoid radar detection. Then he had to somehow incorporate into the game the aircraft's swing wing ability, even though it's not needed in the game!
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I found I had to refuel partway through clearing each set of 5 targets anyway, even at slow speed.