Action Fighter - ADG Episode 329

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So who knew the Tandy 1000 supported THAT video mode?? :o
Today on Ancient DOS Games, Gemini's finally taking a proper look back at Action Fighter, notably the once-thought "lost" Tandy-compatible release of the game, originally developed for arcades and the Master System by Sega but then ported to various computers by Core Design and published through Firebird Software in 1989.
The funny thing about this game is it's basically what you get if you merge Spy Hunter with Xevious... and also make the level designs incredibly uninspired and far too long for their own good. I mean, the game's not bad, but taking a critical look back at it so many years later it's very, VERY average.
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Additional Information and Corrections:
* I'm about 99% certain the keyboard issues I was having were due to the specific download I found, but then, the Tandy 1000 series of computers DID use a slightly different keyboard to the IBM standard layout, so maybe that's to blame...? I would've thought DOSBox would compensate for that...? If anyone has any ideas based on the wacky keys I listed which SHOULD have been arrow keys let me know. :P
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Chapters:
00:00 Title and Intro
03:03 Game Stats
05:07 Gameplay
10:57 Overall
11:27 DOSBox Configuration
13:04 Credits

Пікірлер: 22

@aaronmarko 10 күн бұрын

I can't believe it's taken this long to get an Action Fighter review. God, it's gotta be like 13 years since you first tried to review it

@Pixelmusement 10 күн бұрын

A little over one month shy of 14 actually. :P

@aaronmarko 10 күн бұрын

Here's to another 14, my friend

@quarkbent9165 5 күн бұрын

Huzzah, for both perseverance and preservation!

@TheMoogleMaster 10 күн бұрын

Parts of this game remind of the driving stages from the Ghostbusters game

@TheGerkuman 10 күн бұрын

Spy Hunter x Xevious. Spevious!

@Pixelmusement 9 күн бұрын

...or Xevihunter. ;)

@MM. 10 күн бұрын

My understanding of the main benefit of the 160x200 graphics mode is that it improves performance, because the CPU needs to push half the data into video memory. There's a Nerdly Pleasures blog post on this, which does also mention composite. It was actually my first contact with anything that can be tied to Tandy, through Sierra-style AGI games. To me, it's somewhat of a final bridge to the "old world" of 8-bit micros, at least with respect to visual identity.

@Heffsta02 9 күн бұрын

I would always die in the flight section as a kid.

@Retrokid1998 10 күн бұрын

Oh my god thank you is looked up this game and never found anything

@thepirategamerboy12 6 күн бұрын

Tandy 1000s use the same PSG chip as the Master System so it's a bit unfortunate this couldn't sound more like that version.

@bradboggess9347 10 күн бұрын

I wish there were more games that utilized the 3 channel PCjr / Tandy sound capability. Some of the old Sierra games like Leisure Suit Larry did that. But, it's hard to compete with the awesomeness of the C64's SID chip.

@Pixelmusement 9 күн бұрын

Actually, a lot of games DO, it's just that many of them also support AdLib so most people remember THAT, not the 3-voice support. :P

@7thDementia 10 күн бұрын

IIRC it would've been reviewed way, way, *way* earlier if any of your other systems at the time could read the disk, but they couldn't so you went with Dark Ages instead. XD

@Pixelmusement 10 күн бұрын

RIGHT, OK, so... Looking back at what I said in my old videos I remember what was going wrong there. I have two computers with 5 1/4" floppy drives, my Tandy 1000 as well as my P120. Back at that point in time, both of those computers were running fine. HOWEVER, the drive in the P120 is a HIGH DENSITY drive and for some bizarre reason it wasn't reading the disk right, while I had no good means to capture footage from the Tandy 1000, let alone grab the game executables and bring them over to a different system since my Tandy 1000 has no means to output files to anything OTHER than its 5 1/4" drive, so I was kinda SOL. :P

@fernandopenalva2680 6 күн бұрын

Nice game.

@fernandopenalva2680 6 күн бұрын

Requests; Prehistorik 1 and 2, The Humans, Lost Vikings, Monuments of Mars, Luigi & Spaghetti, Cisco Heat, Zakk Mckracken and the Alien Mindbenders.

@Pixelmusement 6 күн бұрын

Please send requests to the eMail address in the credits of these videos so I can track them properly; KZfaq comments are not a good way to keep track of them! :B

@solsticeprojekt1937 10 күн бұрын

THAT BOMBING SOUND EFFECT IS SO SUPER EFFING ANNOYING HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO US D: ... EEEOOOWWW EEEEOOOWWW EEEEOOOWW EEEEOOOWWW ... lol omfg how did anyone play this.

@Pixelmusement 9 күн бұрын

There is a sound toggle key. :B

@solsticeprojekt1937 9 күн бұрын

@@Pixelmusement Geeee, glad you didn't use it, YOU MONSTER!!!!! :D :D :D

@fernandopenalva2680 6 күн бұрын

Hahahaha. 😂