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Post by nickz on May 30, 2012 11:27:35 GMT -5
In one version of Driller Tanks, I think the MSX version, the game tells you the names of the enemies during attract mode. It called the main enemies Mammuts and the multi legged enemies Skorks. The MSX box art depicts the Mammuts as dinosaurs, so I don't know. A lot of box arts had very interesting takes on the in game action back in the 80s and early 90s.
I thought the skorks looked like insects with antenna, especially because the bottom six legs are the only ones that move and are much shorter than the claws/antenna. I guess it's one of those games where the graphics can be interpreted in more than one way depending on how you look at it.
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Post by bluelander on May 30, 2012 13:57:34 GMT -5
I'm almost positive I have Driller Tank on cassette tape for the PC-88. Most of those Hudson games were released for all the Japanese computers of the time. Msx, pc-88, pc-6001, mz-700, x1, fm-7, etc. There's also a PC game released by Sierra Online called Ant Hill or something like that which is identical except you're an ant eater using your tongue to eat ants. I don't know if it's a licensed clone or just a copy.
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Post by jorpho on May 30, 2012 21:58:47 GMT -5
I guess it's one of those games where the graphics can be interpreted in more than one way depending on how you look at it.
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Post by KeeperBvK on May 31, 2012 0:11:51 GMT -5
Haha, ok, I guess that covershot ends this discussion fair and square.
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Post by Weasel on May 31, 2012 0:20:47 GMT -5
What really gets me, there, is that the artist of that box had obviously played the game before, adapting many of the graphical elements from the game in their interpretation, from the shapes of the cherries in the trees all being uniformly shaped and angled, to the guy on the left with the top hat labeled "EXTRA," and the way the apple on the ground is cleanly split in half (from having been thrown/dropped, just like what happens in game). Not sure why the Grim Reaper is following them on a rail cart, though...
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Post by bluelander on May 31, 2012 12:29:31 GMT -5
The sierra clone is called Oil's Well. Don't know why I thought it was about ants...
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Post by Weasel on May 31, 2012 12:43:58 GMT -5
Just from reading the article, it doesn't seem like Oil's Well has a lot to do with Driller Tanks, aside from the whole "underground maze" bit that, admittedly, tons of games in those days were using.
Man, Oil's Well could really use an article, it's actually a nifty little title.
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Post by Allie on May 31, 2012 14:17:09 GMT -5
I guess it's one of those games where the graphics can be interpreted in more than one way depending on how you look at it. That is amazing. Especially that they gave the bald guy manboobs.
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Post by Wildcat on Jun 2, 2012 18:52:33 GMT -5
CBS Electronics did some horrible things to old arcade ports back in the day. Case in point:
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Post by KeeperBvK on Jun 3, 2012 0:43:31 GMT -5
I haven't quite made my mind up yet as to whether that's truly horrible or simply awesome.
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Post by Snarboo on Jun 3, 2012 4:14:39 GMT -5
I'm leaning towards awesome myself.
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Jun 3, 2012 7:41:00 GMT -5
Tom Selleck versus a lycanthropic Ted Danson? Too bad the blonde doesn't look like Steve Gutenburg.
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Post by nickz on Jun 3, 2012 10:52:25 GMT -5
I don't know why, but seeing Mario with a mullet while holding Thor's hammer makes me laugh.
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Post by jorpho on Jun 3, 2012 15:47:19 GMT -5
That's a new one on me. I was expecting Atari 800 Pac-Man. (The manual is likewise of unexpected quality.)
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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 3, 2012 21:12:22 GMT -5
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