Schlagwort: retro games

Reading Time: 4 minutesPunch and kick your way through a rabble of bad dudes in a simple scrolling beat-’em-up. Mark Vanstone shows you how Although released to tie in with Jackie Chan’s Spartan X, Kung-Fu Master was originally inspired by the Bruce Lee film, Game of Death. Kung-Fu Master Kung-Fu Master hit arcades in 1984.…

Reading Time: 4 minutesLearn how to create the turn-based combat system found in games like Pokémon, Final Fantasy, and Undertale. Raspberry Pi’s Rik Cross shows you how. With their emphasis on trading and collecting as well as turn-based combat, the Pokémon games helped bring RPG concepts to the masses. In the late 1970s, high school…

Reading Time: 4 minutesGuide a frog across busy roads and rivers. Mark Vanstone shows you how to code a simple remake of Konami’s arcade game, Frogger. Konami’s original Frogger: so iconic, it even featured in a 1998 episode of Seinfeld. Frogger Why did the frog cross the road? Because Frogger would be a pretty boring…

Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was one of gaming’s first boss battles. Mark Vanstone shows you how to recreate the mothership from the 1980 arcade game, Phoenix. Phoenix’s fifth stage offered a unique challenge in 1980: one of gaming’s first-ever boss battles. First released in 1980, Phoenix was something of an arcade pioneer. The game was…

Reading Time: 4 minutesRaspberry Pi’s own Rik Cross shows you how to code your own Columns-style tile-matching puzzle game in Python and Pygame Zero. Created by Hewlett-Packard engineer Jay Geertsen, Columns was Sega’s sparkly rival to Nintendo’s all-conquering Tetris. Columns and tile-matching Tile-matching games began with Tetris in 1984 and the less famous Chain Shot!…

Reading Time: 4 minutesReplicate the physics of barrel rolling – straight out of the classic Donkey Kong. Mark Vanstone shows you how. Released in 1981, Donkey Kong was one of the most important games in Nintendo’s history. Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Donkey Kong first appeared in arcades in 1981, and starred not only the titular angry ape,…

Reading Time: 4 minutesLearn how to code a sprinting minigame straight out of Daley Thompson’s Decathlon with Raspberry Pi’s own Rik Cross. Spurred on by the success of Konami’s Hyper Sports, Daley Thompson’s Decathlon featured a wealth of controller-wrecking minigames. Daley Thompson’s Decathlon Released in 1984, Daley Thompson’s Decathlon was a memorable entry in what’s sometimes…

Reading Time: 4 minutesWeave through a randomly generated landscape in Mark Vanstone’s homage to the classic arcade game Scramble. Scramble was developed by Konami and released in arcades in 1981. Players avoid terrain and blast enemy craft. Konami’s Scramble In the early eighties, arcades and sports halls rang with the sound of a multitude of…

Reading Time: 4 minutesMaking player and computer-controlled cars race round a track isn’t as hard as it sounds. Mark Vanstone explains all. The original Super Sprint arcade machine had three steering wheels and three accelerator pedals. From Gran Trak 10 to Super Sprint Decades before the advent of more realistic racing games such as Sega Rally…

Reading Time: 5 minutesRaspberry Pi’s own Rik Cross shows you how to hit enemies with your mouse pointer as they move around the screen. Duck Hunt made effective use of the NES Zapper, and made a star of its sniggering dog, who’d pop up to heckle you between stages. Clicky Clicky Bang Bang Shooting galleries…

Reading Time: 5 minutesRaspberry Pi’s Rik Cross shows you how to create game states, and rules for moving between them. Ninja Gaiden’s dramatic continue screen. Who would be cruel enough to walk away? The continue screen, while much less common now, was a staple feature of arcade games, providing an opportunity (for a small fee)…

Reading Time: 4 minutesYou too can recreate the techniques behind a pioneering 3D maze game in Python. Mark Vanstone explains how. 3D Monster Maze, released in 1982 by J.K. Greye software, written by Malcolm Evans. 3D Monster Maze While 3D games have become more and more realistic, some may forget that 3D games on home…

Reading Time: 4 minutesLearn how to create your own obedient lemmings that follow any path put in front of them. Raspberry Pi’s own Rik Cross explains how. The original Lemmings, first released for the Amiga, quickly spread like a virus to just about every computer and console of the day. Lemmings Lemmings is a puzzle-platformer,…