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Re:Show HN: Not My Cows – Save your cows. Blast the meteors.... by gammarays_ on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:02PM (#37165665)
Also want to mention Paratrooper - https://archive.org/details/msdos_Paratrooper_1982
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Re:Show HN: Not My Cows – Save your cows. Blast the meteors.... by pvg on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:27PM (#37165972)
Paratrooper is effectively a clone of Sabotage, it looks like

https://retro365.blog/2021/04/07/bits-from-my-personal-colle...

It's interesting how much depth you get out of the additional mechanics, unsurprising the game itself was copied a great deal but coming up with engaging twists on seemingly trivial gameplay seems to have been a lot harder to replicate consistently.

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Re:Show HN: Not My Cows – Save your cows. Blast the meteors.... by whothatcodeguy on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:04PM (#37165678)
i love that archive.org has all of these
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