Tag: retro games

Reading Time: 4 minutes Blast dive-bombing aliens in our salute to Namco’s classic. Mark Vanstone has the code Aliens swoop down towards the player, bombing as they go. Back in 1979, this was a big step forward from Taito’s Space Invaders. Hot on the heels of the original Space Invaders, Galaxian emerged as a rival space shooter in 1979.…… Continue reading Recreate Galaxian’s iconic attack patterns | Wireframe #50

Reading Time: 4 minutes Traverse a crumbly cavern in our homage to a Spectrum classic. Mark Vanstone has the code One of the most iconic games on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum featured a little man called Miner Willy, who spent his days walking and jumping from platform to platform collecting the items needed to unlock the door on each…… Continue reading Remake Manic Miner’s collapsing platforms | Wireframe #49

Reading Time: 4 minutes Grab onto ropes and swing across chasms in our Python rendition of an Atari 2600 classic. Mark Vanstone has the code Whether it was because of the design brilliance of the game itself or because Raiders of the Lost Ark had just hit the box office, Pitfall Harry became a popular character on the Atari…… Continue reading Swing into action with an homage to Pitfall! | Wireframe #48

Reading Time: 4 minutes Speed around an arena, avoiding walls and deadly trails in this Light Cycle minigame. Mark Vanstone has the code. Battle against AI enemies in the original arcade classic. At the beginning of the 1980s, Disney made plans for an entirely new kind of animated movie that used cutting-edge computer graphics. The resulting film was 1982’s…… Continue reading Code a Light Cycle arcade minigame | Wireframe #47

Reading Time: 4 minutes Create a network of pipes before the water starts to flow in our re-creation of a classic puzzler. Jordi Santonja shows you how. Pipe Mania’s design is so effective, it’s appeared in various guises elsewhere – even as a minigame in BioShock. Pipe Mania, also called Pipe Dream in the US, is a puzzle game…… Continue reading Code your own Pipe Mania puzzler | Wireframe #46

Reading Time: 4 minutes Code an explosive homage to Toaplan’s classic blaster. Mark Vanstone has the details Tiger-Heli was developed by Toaplan and published in Japan by Taito and by Romstar in North America. Released in 1985, Tiger-Heli was one of the earliest games from Japanese developer Toaplan: a top-down shoot-’em-up that pitted a lone helicopter against relentless waves…… Continue reading Recreate Tiger-Heli’s bomb mechanic | Wireframe #45

Reading Time: 4 minutes Fire artillery shells to blow up the enemy with Mark Vanstone’s take on a classic two-player artillery game Artillery Duel was an early example of the genre, and appeared on such systems as the Bally Astrocade and Commodore 64 (pictured). To pick just one artillery game is difficult since it’s a genre in its own…… Continue reading Code your own Artillery-style tank game | Wireframe #44