Re:Hamster Invaders
by raldi on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:12AM
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Unfaithful to Space Invaders. You should be able to shoot their bullets out of the sky and if any of the hamsters touch the ground it should be Game Over and when only one is left it should move at crazy speeds all over the screen like a yorkie on crystal meth.
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Those are not bullets.
Underrated comment
Some of my best child memories are playing space invaders (beating my father at highscores; later rounds you have to very fast especially when you have the one crack-infused alien left) and castle adventure on a luggable [0]. I still have the luggable, it still works, and it still plays the games.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Data_Systems?wprov=sfti...
I loved CA!
It was the reason I went to study AI (at possibly the worst time, in the 90s winter); I was very young when I first played it and obsessed with the large amounts of text it came up with under different circumstances. I found out how it all worked and programmed a bunch of adventures soon after, but the magic feeling that computers can make up human text stayed with me. Didn’t touch AI after until gpt2 came out.