Jmac's Arcade #4 - Moon Patrol

[prog]

"" (Watch on YouTube)

In which I do my laundry. http://arcade.jmac.org

I actually have more to say about this game (which would actually be me talking more about the game per se) but I wanted to keep to the script this time around. Maybe I'll do Moon Patrol Redux later.

I got really good at this game while working on this; you have to get pretty familiar with a game in order to die on cue. I also filmed myself getting to the Z checkpoint on one "quarter", if you can believe it.

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Haha! Nice!

The dying on cue was a nice touch, really added to the narrative. I think talking over the jingle was a mistake though... you could've afforded to pause a second or two.

I am enjoying these a lot. I remember being the kid in that story.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Also: 1982? Wow, that 3-level scrolling is pretty impressive for the time. Most games didn't even have a background yet. Wasn't til the early 16-bit games in the mid 80s that games started getting detailed palettes and backgrounds.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I know, the game is actually quite beautiful! I didn't realize the diversity and artistry of the backgrounds and characters until I was working on this.

It does a great job of making you feel like you're exploring a space by revealing more new stuff every time you get good enough to advance into another part of the course. This movie shows only a little of the different stuff you encounter; the minefield halfway through the "beginner course" shows how they briefly turn it into a slightly different game using the same rules.