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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,…

Reading Time: 5 minutesEffective animation gave Donkey Kong barrels of personality. Raspberry Pi’s own Rik Cross explains how to create a similar walk cycle. Donkey Kong wasn’t the first game to feature an animated character who could walk and jump, but on its release in 1981, it certainly had more personality than the games that…

Reading Time: 3 minutesUnparalleled depth in a 2D game: PyGame Zero extraordinaire Daniel Pope shows you how to recreate a zooming starfield effect straight out of the eighties arcade classic Gyruss. The crowded, noisy realm of eighties amusement arcades presented something of a challenge for developers of the time: how can you make your game…

Reading Time: 3 minutesRik Cross, Senior Learning Manager here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, shows you how to recreate the deadly explosions in the classic game, Bomberman. An early incarnation of Bomberman on the NES; the series is still going strong today under Konami’s wing. Creating Bomberman Bomberman was first released in the early 1980s as…

Reading Time: 3 minutesAtari’s Breakout was one of the earliest video game blockbusters. Here’s how to recreate it in Python. The original Breakout, designed by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, and famously built by a young Steve Wozniak. Atari Breakout The games industry owes a lot to the humble bat and ball. Designed by Allan…

Reading Time: 4 minutesRik Cross, Senior Learning Manager here at Raspberry Pi, shows you how to recreate the spawning of objects found in the balloon-bursting arcade gem Pang. Pang: bringing balloon-hating to the masses since 1989. Capcom’s Pang Programmed by Mitchell and distributed by Capcom, Pang was first released as an arcade game in 1989,…

Reading Time: 5 minutesThey add strategy to a genre-defining shooter. Andrew Gillett lifts the lid on Space Invaders’ disintegrating shields. Released in 1978, Space Invaders introduced ideas so fundamental to video games that it’s hard to imagine a time before them. And it did this using custom-made hardware which by today’s standards is unimaginably slow.…