When I first saw this game, I was 14 years old. I don't know if anyone else agrees with me, but the image of Rupert Bear (it's the trousers) being devoured by a huge tomato haunted my dreams for many days. I was rubbish at Rocket Raid as well, though I remember it being better played with a joystick. I'm talking about one of those analogue Acorn 'twiddler' sticks. In the level with the bouncing bombs, you had to rotate the joystick a bit and wobble it. P.S. Please get rid of the jazz - I can't hear what you're saying with that going on in the background.
@KipIngram
4 ай бұрын
The BBC Micro really was an ATTRACTIVE machine. I love the colors they used on the keyboard. It just has a very slick look.
@Yesterzine
2 жыл бұрын
If you can come up with a pun for Quid Hardware I'm there!
@RetroBytesUK
2 жыл бұрын
The pun is of course the most important part of this, I did resist the temptation todo a you're momma joke.
@AlastairMontgomery
2 жыл бұрын
Never got past the third level in Rocket Raid, so hard. Did Missile Base work with the analogue joystick, trying to remember if it was that version or a clone from another publisher, think that would have made it more like the arcade tracker ball controls.
@RetroBytesUK
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it does support the analogue stick, I no-loner have mine as a really never did like the BBC's joystick so I let a friend have mine.
@catriona_drummond
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent entertainment, as always!
@WhatHoSnorkers
2 жыл бұрын
Monsters is a bit meh. Rocket Raid moves at a lovely rate thought! 9 direction keys! I thought that me having 8 for the Dragon 32 version was excessive! Lovely job.
@RetroBytesUK
2 жыл бұрын
Must admit I am impressed as to how smoothly rocket raid moves, especially give how early on this game was.
@WhatHoSnorkers
2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroBytesUK For a while I thought you were showing us "Scramble" on the arcade. I think that's SLOWER if anything.
@AlastairMontgomery
2 жыл бұрын
Trying to figure out what the 9th direction would be?
@WhatHoSnorkers
2 жыл бұрын
@@AlastairMontgomery I think it's 8 for moving (Y U I, J L, N M ,) and then ZXC. So actually 8. But 11 control keys! I just had a quick go and it's tricky on a modern keyboard as the keys are at an angle. On a numeric keypad it might be better I suppose...
@KipIngram
4 ай бұрын
You know, my first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer, and it used a cassette interface. I modded mine to 64kB RAM and wrote a Forth interpreter for it, using the EDTASM assembler cartridge (that was a 6809 processor - great chip). I used the top 32k of RAM as my "disk block space," so I'd always start by loading the disk image in from cassette. I don't recall it taking THAT long. Certainly not "make a cup of tea" long.
@satchice9102
2 жыл бұрын
When I had a BBC, I had a missile command game (not sure if it was AcornSoft's version or not) that worked with an analogue joystick. That was a much better control scheme than keys or a switched joystick. Also, I think it was Superior Software who released a version of Scramble called "Moonraider", that is much better than the AcornSoft's Rocket Raid.
@profitusmaximus3974
Жыл бұрын
I read the title as the HighPoint RocketRAID HBAs
@bencheevers6693
2 жыл бұрын
Who sells stuff for a dollar on ebay? I mean isn't the time investment to actually sell it worth so much more than a dollar?
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