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arthur o'dwyer – stuff mostly about c++
I was recently thinking about one of the DOS shareware games of my youth: Evasive Maneuvers (Colin Buckley and Chris Blackwell, 1994). It’s a really polished and addictive VGA side-scroller in which you pilot a little Imperial-Shuttle-ish spacecraft through obstacle-strewn levels, trying to keep up with the implacable scrolling of the screen (á là Flappy Bird (2013)) while shooting and dropping bombs to eliminate hazards and to keep your ship fueled by exploding rooftop fuel tanks. It’s a clone/homage to Scramble (Konami, 1981), which I’ve personally never played but which has clearly spawned a lot of imitators.