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Great. Just the kind of platformer I've been scouring Kongregate for. Although I do wonder why spikes were incorporated into the design of a spaceship...
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Seems like you should finish one game before starting a new series (e.g. Mardek), but that's just me. Either that or just put out the entire game at once. That side, I like your take on this old-school game and I think you did it well. 4/5
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Everyone bitching about the controls and the lives system have clearly never played old school Nintendo or Atari games. Try playing Kid Icarus or the original Pitfall for several hours and this game will seem like a piece of cake. I never once had any trouble with the ladder or jumping system in this game and I've beaten it twice now on the two harder difficulties. (my grades have sucked, though lol)
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i like the old school games, but in this one when you lose, it's really annoying to start all over again from the beginning of the level, even when you reach the checkpoints.
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heh, and after an hour of playing this game, i beat the first level... with a lovely score of -508! 20 mins on the last boss alone, until i got the whole pattern figured out... it was a bitch up until then.
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It is the late eighties or early nineties, I am running over to a friends house to pay thier nintendo, they have a new game called Raider. *Ah!* oh. only a dream...
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Space Quest wasn't a platformer, it was like King's Quest and Quest for Glory. I don't see the relation. Space Quest was meant to be really goofy, which this doesn't seem to be (much).
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woogychuck, are you using IE8? Or is your computer particularly slow? Those things seem to interfere with the speed that Flash receives keypresses, but the game works fine in my browser (Chrome).
Mrhat613, you can *change the controls*. I spent a long time today adding a key configuration thing for people like you who are unsatisfied with the default controls.
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This totally reminded me of "space quest" back from windows 3.0, awesome game (space quest was) this game, don't know yet
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I love the oldschool graphics and gameplay, it gets a bit laggy but thats probably due to my own computer. Well done, though i kind of suck at this game XD
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Great issues with the jump, the ladders work really weird also, the character keeps going when u jump more of the times
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Little point of note: Once you're at the game over screen, holding down A on "Play More Games" will keep spawning popups for as long as you hold it down.
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Ha! I finished with a grand total of +3 points and an E ranking. I'm not complaining though, that was fun to beat. Now I really know what you meant when you were talking about the feeling of satisfaction when you beat something that's foiled your every attempt numerous times. Feels great! 5/5
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Oh, lovely, LOVELY nostalgia. The game seems to work pretty darn good. Only, take a look at the ladders: when you try to reach the top, you fall. You must jump right before reaching the top to actually REACH the top. I believe this is because the ladder's top is not taken as a floor. My suggestion: add a new "tile", also a ladder, but that also works as platform. Good luck!
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wow is the boss a huge jump in difficulty. maybe the platforming should have been harder so it's more of a steady slope towards the boss? fun game though.
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Chippy502 ... you should check out "How to play" before posting comments. You can change the gameplay keys to whatever you want.
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I'm embarrassed to say that I still haven't beaten the boss yet, but it's been a fun game nonetheless. And I feel like a major idiot, but I finally realized a good strategy to use when the Wraith goes off the beginning pattern and fires directly at you. It seems painfully obvious in retrospect, yet it took me at least 20 losses to finally see it. :(
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ok game, but using A for the jump is a little annoying. I instinctively hit the up arrow to jump, like every other game, and die cause of it.
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There is mayby an bug at the, when i use the configuration thing and, i go to play. Then when i try to use the Up arrow key to move it to Beginner, its goes to the middle game difficult O.o