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#351 - SimonB - Mon Jan 06, 2003 7:42 pm

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Oh you have to try this classic! Grumpy Cat has ported
the Atari ST game Thrust to the GBA and what a great job
he did. Nice intro aswell. aaaah the sound, the game the memories :)

from the readme...

ABOUT THE GAME
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Grumpy Cat's "Thrust" is based on the Atari ST version of "Thrust"
by Alan Butcher - which is the version I played the most in the 80s.
It includes the following:
+ Complete game: intro, info screens, demos, high score table (and
the game itself). All 80s style.
+ All 10 missions from the Atari ST version.
+ High scores saved to battery backed RAM.
+ Antialiased sprites and tether.
+ Reverse gravity.
+ Invisible landscape.
+ All-new sound effects.
+ Original Atari ST "Thrust" theme by Rob Hubbard.

My Gameboy Advance has an Afterburner backlight and the color palette has
been tuned for high contrast and good AA performance on that screen - that's
why the bullet sprites are white instead of red... red bullets were almost
invisible on my screen.

Jeremy C. Smith wrote the original "Thrust" for the BBC Microcomputer.
I used the status display and font from his version as I think they look
better than the Atari ST version.

get the game from the main site

#923 - AnthC - Sun Jan 12, 2003 12:29 pm

Yeah played it a little very nice - love the way the ship looks anti aliased.
Very nice conversion.
Shame that Jeremy died after he finished Exile - he could have made lots more games.
Anth

#1012 - anli - Mon Jan 13, 2003 11:47 am

I already love the game!

But how hard it is to naviate...

(And thanks VBA for being able to save games :)

/anli

#1028 - grumpycat - Mon Jan 13, 2003 7:07 pm

I didn't know Jeremy had died. I did a web search for his name before putting the game out - I at least wanted to get his opinion on it. Wow. That's a real shame.

I've been thinking about putting a "save game" feature in - mostly because I keep getting partway into a game and then being pulled away (!!). I'll probably start looking at it this week.

Grumpy.

#1136 - icon - Tue Jan 14, 2003 10:15 pm

... but it was a c64 game at first, then came the Atari ST version... ;-)
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#1537 - Esseb - Sun Jan 19, 2003 10:44 pm

I love this port. Never tried the original but if this version is to be judged by it must've been truly wonderful indeed.

I've got a small suggestion however. Try tweaking the scrolling somewhat. It starts following you just a little too late, making you only see a little ahead of the direction you're going, making it rather hard to shoot the domes as you can't see the one you're shooting at most of the times. Also, in level 3 if you don't touch any keys you'll begin falling down and after a while the camera will follow you a little, then stop for a while, then begin following you again.


Of course, it might have been like that on the original, but if not, I think it'd be better if made the scrolling code a little more helpful.


Lovely port of a lovely game :).
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