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in reply to: Settings and bindings #11472

I forgot to mention, I had troubles hearing music during gameplay. I set sound to 1, and music to max, and then cranked my pc audio. Not sure if there’s a better way – I chose Soundblaster for midi music in the setup utility.

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in reply to: The Games: Winter Challenge #11440

Oh right on! I should take a listen.

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in reply to: Hells. Yes. #11430

I think, probably not. I bet I would have lost interest anyway. But looking forward to picking it up again. I might try emulation and an xbox controller this time. The joystick on my pentium broke, and I can’t play that from the couch.

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in reply to: Hells. Yes. #11421

Played this for the first time a couple of years ago – it holds up really well… I found it very challenging, so bought the strategy guide from abebooks. That was about when I lost interest and never finished it. Go figure.

You can borrow the guide at archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/tiefighteroffici0000dema/page/n9/mode/2up

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in reply to: YOU’LL FRY LIKE A PORK SAUSAGE. #11420

I used to quote that opening monologue out loud, randomly, to the joy of everyone around me. “Friends?! Friends!?…”

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in reply to: Classic Racer #7414

I put so many hours into this game as a kid. Both building and playing my own maps, and playing other people’s maps. Our game had scores of pre-made custom maps. I was never sure if they were added by the developers or if it was accumulated as people copied the software around.

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in reply to: The Games: Winter Challenge (1991, Ballistic / Accolade) #6986

I still come back and play this game often. We had it on our family computer when I was a kid. Ski jump, Slalom and downhill are the standouts. I could never get the hang of the speed skating. Always came off the track on the corners. BTW this one supports MT-32. Soundtrack doesn’t sound too bad on it either. Would have been PC-Speaker when I first played it.

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in reply to: TheForceEngine is a great, albeit non-DOS, way to play #6985

When you look up and down, does it still have the same weird perspective in this engine? I remember it being not quite right in the original game.

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in reply to: How does OMF stack up to other beat em ups? #6766

I played the game a bit last week. It runs really inconsistently in DosBox, lots of slow-downs. The gameplay speed seems to be dependent on CPU speed you set.

I picked Jean-Paul and Thorn, and made it through the first maybe 8 fights by mostly just button mashing. Then I kept getting killed. After that I found the low sweeping kick (down, back, kick) had a long reach, as well as one of the other kicks (back, back, kick) – mostly unstoppable.

I was playing on easy mode – which also meant I couldn’t fight the boss. He tells you to go away!

I remember we had this game on the family 486 when I was a kid. I think it was only a shareware version with limited gameplay. Was good fun to revisit. I think I’ll play some more on a harder mode, learn some of the moves and try the career mode others have mentioned.

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