/vr/ - Retro Games

there's a game called gladiator for dos/pc

it is an eagle's eye perspective gauntlet squad-based (though the squad part isn't necessary--it's perfectly playable with just one character) rpg. it comes with a pretty substantial campaign that doesn't really make a lot of sense but it's... pleasing, in that retro-ey kind of way. basically the way it works is that you progress through levels earning various amount of gold from either killing dudes, picking up gold, or just from finishing the map in a reasonable amount of time. you then use that gold to either improve your character(s) (using standard RPG attributes) or hire more characters and/or improve them.

multiplayer is fun but it's one of those awkward share-a-keyboard kind of affairs.

a couple of dudes got one of the devs to donate the source and they made an SDL port, which runs fine: http://snowstorm.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/site.cgi?page=openglad

it's very fun. dunno how people felt about it at the time but it definitely deserves more attention