|  Árok 2021 - Online Once To Be Online Never Again | | Posted by Luca on 2021-08-22 |
 Árok 2021, the pandemic edition of Árok Party, is over, sticking in the mind of any scener the desire to meet live in the next edition, so: let's do that online once, in order to never repeat the forced sofa experience tomorrow.
carrion has totally ruled the Gfx Compo with Kracken Prince, one of those pieces of art on the Plus/4 which make you that make you boast the great choice of different greens in your color palette (yes guys, THIS is the real Green Pass!), a stunning 320x248 MFLI picture which will be surely remembered in the near and distant future! Mao by Chronos is sooo cute and full of delicious particulars, and would have clearly deserved a higher place than the 6th it reached, the typical dithered style of Chronos simply shines in the kawaii theme he has chosen for it. 8th place for MMS with Atari Retro Feeling on Plus4, which rapresents the one and only PETSCII entry of the competition, nice retro feelings with it.
Surprisingly, there are Plus/4 droplets into the Remix Compo too, thank to Chabee and his cool remix of Exorcist's theme: Exorcist (ft. Bessie Jones)!
How not to mention the new supertoy by BSZ and Larry running on Commodore 128? SIDrip to VIC pushes a whole music video into the heart of a C128, well deserved winner of the Wild Compo.
We're getting older, buddies, but if the next Árok will be a live experience as it's ever been, the hint is: don't miss a ride, definitely! |
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| | Close Encounter! Of The Shmup Kind | | Posted by Luca on 2021-08-11 |
 We are now aware of the fact that Ulysses777 is, among all the Plus/4 coders around, a user of unscratchable passion and a thousand resources on his side, but we are confident that no one could guess the goal of his next conversion of cult historical games. And exactly in the timelapse when nobody would be able to predict that, he kicks into the scene one of the most iconic 8bit games of the whole golden era!
Encounter is the very first game of the late Paul Woakes, a man we will never regret enough, designed and created before the foundation of Novagen. It came like a shock, it was like having Battlezone at home, but pseudo-3D, just three years after the release of Battlezone itself, a sort of 8bit miracle! It's large, it's 3D, it's insanely fast. 8 different alien plains against enemies and drones, interspersed with some fast paths full of big obstacles connecting the previous one with the forthcoming, and several useful trainers offered by Ulysses777 in order to allow the complete view of the whole game to the players of any skill.
In the middle of August, when the sweat is already going, there is now a very funny excuse to sweat even more: play Encounter, both on PAL and NTSC, and let us see your best score! |
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