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Language: English (en)
Current Version: 1 License: Freeware Development System: TADS 2 Baf's Guide ID: 1155 IFID: TADS2-F9A04BDE2659603DA3F34701881300D6 TUID: y5ui14n1q6gkuuvq |
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Baf's Guide
A promising start to a story loosely inspired by the videogame, but it ends abruptly just as it starts to get interesting.
-- Carl Muckenhoupt
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Faithful IF-remake of «Space Invaders», September 25, 2009A pretty faithful IF-remake of Space Invaders: The aliens drop their intergalactic missiles at you; you fire at them with your gun. As a game in it’s own right, I suppose it would be quite a disaster. But, of course, now, it’s not a game in it’s own right: it’s a rendition in text of an old graphics video game. That makes it kind of corny fun—to players who are familiar with the original game, that is.
I don’t think there’s a way actually to win this one (which is quite fair, since there never was a way to win Space Invaders in the first place, was there?), but I didn’t have the superhuman patience nor the subhuman pigheadedness to keep playing long enough to be sure of this.
Also, at a certain point, the author introduces an original element to the game …
An intriguing Space Invader text reworking with some loose ends, September 15, 2017This TADS game is part of the IF arcade pack, and is probably the most creative of the 3 reworkings of space-invader type games.
You are in a line of bunkers, and you can dodge left and right, in and out of them as you shoot the invaders.
There are intriguing hints of a storyline, but they seem to go nowhere.
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