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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 25515, member: 73"] [IMG align="left" width="283px" size="1920x1080"]https://cld.accentuate.io/7094176972853/1667497074794/yars__revenge.png?v=1667497074794&options=w_1920[/IMG] I've always had something of a weird affection for [B]Yars' Revenge. [/B]The gameplay loop is really unique – it's a one-on-one spaceship battle where you both have unfair advantages over the other – and slooooowly whittling away the enemy's defences while you dart in and out of cover is a lot of fun. Using the "ZORLON CANNON" to deal the finishing blow is hilarious, too. It's like one single screen or a boss fight in an 8-bit scrolling shooter game, and I really do think it's something that only could have been made at the dawn of this medium. (I certainly can't thank of any other games that have come out in the 40 years since that are remotely similar to it.) [ATTACH type="full" align="right" width="285px" alt="worth it.png"]7889[/ATTACH]The game has an insanely-detailed manual and backstory for what it is (it literally came with a full-length comic book explaining the lore), which I find really cute – it was clearly the programmer's baby, and it's interesting how what you play is essentially the "culmination" of the entire [I]Yar's Revenge [/I]storyline. I listened to a podcast interview with the programmer, Howard Scott Warshaw, a few years ago, and he still seemed to remember it fondly. (Warshaw was the guy who programmed the 2600 version of [I]E.T.[/I], so he's basically the Miyamoto of the pre-crash video game industry.) They'd never make a game like this today – it doesn't really follow the modern "rules" of game design, and even at the time it wasn't really a major hit – but as a long-past curio, I do like it a lot. It also introduced the word "[B]Qotile[/B]" for the enemy's name, which might be my favourite thing ever written. [/QUOTE]

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