/vr/ - Retro Games

I've been touching up on some PC-8001 games as I found a Windows explorer extension that allows you to randomly pick a file or folder. Perfect for random game graverobbing.

The majority I've rolled so far are homebrew (well, more so than the "regular devs", it's largely all bedroom coders) and type-ins, most of which are either buggy or unfinished, likely because it's made by a 14 year old Japanese coder and it's not like Japan is known for their coding skills. I did roll an Apple II port (and they credited the original authors too!), but it was Galactic Quest.
One of the Space Invaders ports was decent and there was an interesting attempt at a Radar Scope port, but the latter kinda sucked. Too much screen crunch and the difficulty starts a bit too high especially in comparison to the arcade original as the "formation" of ships can't be hit and the bombs also drop immediately instead of later in the stage (picrel, it's the row of pixels in the back).