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That's a weird glitch, I've never seen that one before. You can actually redefine the keys if you press Enter when the control method selector is on Keyboard. That said, having 3 players on the keyboard is really pushing it, and the defaults are pretty much optimal already.

Interesting. I can't imagine this being accessible to many users when it released, since 640x350 apparently required an enhanced EGA monitor, which is given as of the reasons that most EGA games up and including the very late titles retained the 320x200 resolution.

My favorite part of this game was the level editor, I recall making a lot of terrible levels with it

This looks vaguely familiar; I think I've played it, can't recall when or where though.

And then you discover that you can shoot and the frustration goes away, just like with digger. cursor keys control your movement A fires a shot to the left D fires a shot to the right W fires a shot upwards S fires a shot downwards Some older version has X for shot downwards. Newer versions have a .DOC file where all is explained. Including the level editor. Played this a lot on my AT machine back then. It had an EGA card and this was 'high res' with a nice color palet on my EGA monitor.

Played it as a kid First Metroidvania I ever played - even though I didn't know that name of subgenre yet

I’ve searched for this game for years. I remember playing it a lot as a kid! I always liked the bizarre glitch where your tank would jump an opponent’s bomb then your tank would inexplicably crash through the ground.

Gehennom is spelled with a soft G and a harsh N Its hell in islamic belief

Also came out on Atari ST. ooked interesting

I just recently bought the original SKYFOX for my Commodore 64 as one of the AriolaSoft game tapes this year's summer 😹👍🕹️. I haven't tested it yet, because i have been busy everyday 😹. But hopefully, i will test it before the end of 2024. SKYFOX II on the MS-DOS PC looks absolutely retrospectively as brilliant as on the Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. A big retrospective like 👍🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

I remember this game!

I’m not positive which platform but I think I played this game extensively on my commodore 128 (in 64 mode). Super fun and addictive when I was a kid.

The downhill jam would be recreated in tony hawk pro skater . A nod from the then new best skate game ever to the first .

I used to work with David Bunch, who wrote Skate or Die. He was proud of it. Also a great guy who passed away a few years back from pancreatic cancer.

I remember very similar game Ski or Die with only difference that it was a winter theme. I.e. ski and snowboard.

Man, that’s bollocks compared to the C64! I mean the SID music of this original game is like an anthem. WTF is this sh*t?!

I also recall that some of the early forms of copy protection was differently coloured like red, which meant you couldnt even make copies of it via a photocopier. The other one that was famous was thick manuals then asking you to find specific words from pages and lines.

How did they get away with calling it Skate or Die when Atari owned that name lol

Making games require a manual to figure out how to play was a pretty popular form of copy protection back when. Sure, you could pirate the game, but unless you also pirated the manual you wouldn't know what to do with it.

very pleasing visual style :-)

Hahaha. Wow, I grew up playing this. Its awesome.

Those graphics really remind me of the early Ultimas. It is rather weird that the inns and whatnot don't seem to serve any purpose; I wonder if the game was released in a half-finished state.

Are you on a ship or oil rig or something? Because that would be all sorts of awesome! 😆

An underutilized graphics mode, even though it couldn't compete with monochrome Mac graphics.

Saw it on some emulator (MAME?) back in 2002. Never before thought arcade machines were so advanced in 80s.

This was the first platform game I ever saw or played. It still holds a lot of nostalgia for me. Not by Apogee though (the description mentioned how the game didn't have graphics as detailed as the ones in Apogee games).

I remember the updated Elite Plus with VGA graphics. It was also the only Edition with a secret Galaxy 9, wich is randomly reached when Galhyping from Galaxy 8 with the same change of reaching Witchspace during a normal Warp.

It's kind of amusing how the wolfman's in-game proportions make him look more like a giant hamster. Oh, and yes, eating people recovers health.

My dad used to play this all the time when he was a kid, I have played it with him a couple times on DOSBOX but have never finished a game. I remember completely filling my islands with armies and not thinking of using transports to expand, only to attack lol

As a kid, I played this game often. Humans never tasted so good as they did when grabbed from buildings. 😄 Thank you for uploading!

I remember this game because of that bug 😂

I still get that music stuck in my head sometimes all these years later. Total ear worm. I always played with the music on. I remember it playing faster. Maybe it's one of those games that relied on the speed of the processor.

The launcher sound is eerily similar to the Metroid Dread Emmi. Great vids, since this is my first comment after watching a good part of your catalogue, thought i would mention it too ^_^

This is pretty phenomenal for personal computers at the time. I spent a lot of time playing Jet, but the Bermuda Triangle mission always scared me :)

Interesting how all the important buildings need to be accessed by climbing a rope. Wonder if there's some kind of in-universe reason for that architectural quirk?

10:08 Heh, I just noticed the message there misspells Lord British's name as "Lord Brititsh".

Jeff Minter really likes hoofers. Almost every game he's made features some kind of ruminant animals in it.

I very vaguely remember playing this on the school's PCs way back. Our computer classes were very freeform back then - most of the teachers knew less about the machines than the students did, so they mostly just let us do whatever we wanted.

It's a neat little puzzle game. I always find games that let you alter the environment to some degree pretty nifty.

One of the things I like about these old shmups is the really surreal-looking backgrounds they often had.

Reminds me of another game from the same era, but can't offhand remember the name.

My first game on a color PC display. Managed to beat it somehow.

I played this MS-DOS game on my old neighbor's old PC back in the early 1990's. I must have been 8 or 9 years old. Thanks for bringing back my retrospective childhood memories 😺👍🕹️. A big retrospective like 👍🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

I forgot about this one. Nice!

One of the first games I played on the Atari ST. You could run it in the high resolution monochrome mode

How do you determine which houses are subscribed to the paper and which aren't?

0:30 Isn't "best-loved underrated game" a bit of a contradiction? The moon-timer is a neat idea, though it's a bit of a logic error that the stars don't move. 12:28 I'd guess the VD stands for Vlad Dracula.

Those are kind of weird-looking goats. They look more like bulls with goat horns.

QAOP keys for movement was used in quite a few games back then. I remember playing several that used the same key mapping.

I had this on Apple IIGS. I beat one of the game developer's puzzles. In the Hideout, I put the clue in the cauldron, and a blue "You Won!" appeared near the Map. At first I didn’t quite understand what happened for about 30 seconds, then the realization hit me!