[Coco] "Bomb Threat" game

[Steve Strowbridge]

Looks great, can't wait for the finished product!


Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com


On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Alexander Wallace <
alexander.o.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:

> The game looks fantastic! I’m surprised Tandy didn’t want it!
>
> > On Jun 4, 2017, at 8:59 PM, Rick Adams <rick at rickadams.org> wrote:
> >
> > I developed this game long ago, hoping to sell it to Tandy. They opted
> not to buy it, and I tried shopping it around here and there, but nobody
> was interested. My kids loved playing it, fondly calling it "the tractor
> game," but eventually they grew up and moved out...
> >
> > The game was nearly forgotten, but I knew the floppy containing the game
> was in a plastic box downstairs... and eventually I went to find it again,
> only to find I have no idea where it is. Every once in awhile i go looking
> for it again, but as of yet I haven't found it.
> >
> > My kids were visiting and reminiscing a while back and one of them
> suddenly remembered there was a VCR tape we made ages ago to use for
> presentations I made at their elementary schools when they wanted a
> visiting game developer to spice up the class. They ran downstairs to the
> basement and found the tape, and that's where this gameplay video of the
> game came from:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2k9Jum0C2Q&t=1s
> >
> > As for the game... you're in charge of a warehouse full of boxes of
> merchandise, but some demented madman has strewn bombs all around, some
> even inside the boxes! And it's up to you to save the merchandise before
> the bombs go off. You have your forklift tractor to push the boxes away
> from the bombs... or the bombs away from the boxes if you feel brave!
> >
> > If you click the joystick button as you travel, one box at your rear
> will be pulled along with you, and/or you can push any number of boxes
> ahead of you. But watch out! Sometimes a box will be revealed as a bomb! If
> a bomb goes off too near you, your turn is at an end. But if you can stay
> alive until the last bomb goes off, you'll get points for every box you
> saved.
> >
> > Recently I started manually rewriting the game from scratch, my first
> "new" Coco project in decades.  I am around 80% done.
> >
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