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Playing Delta (C64)

Cybergoth

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Hi there!

 

I have to excuse the lame screenshot, but it actually didn't look as if the Atari Age server was recovering still tonight... Luckily it did though, so here comes a last minute entry for Delta:

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With horizontally scrolling shoot'em ups being one of my favourite genres, I have to say that Delta never was a favourite of mine. Back in the day I totally missed it - being released somewhen inbetween Uridium and Wizball, which were getting most of my attention then.

 

Trying it almost two decades later in emulation didn't really help it either. It's far from a graphics sensation nowadays and the gameplay also seems severly lacking. It's a total memorize game. Unless you know every single attack wave in advance, you're wrecked into bits within seconds. Even worse, occasionally you have to pick up the correct power ups in advance as well. Speaking of which, the game has Gradius written all over it, you can see it's influence shine through everywhere! (Unfortunately not its playability / level design genious ;))

 

Still, MacbethPSW was raving about it on Lemon64 lately, so I decided to give it another try and started playing it once again today. State-saving between levels, I'm artificially limiting the memorizing process to just a single level. That really helped my playing progress, so I'm already through to the first 9 levels. Still not impressed... :ponder: We'll see how this continues...

 

Greetings,

Manuel

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Cybergoth

Very true, I really should've mentioned that it is spiced up by yet another Rob Hubbard masterpiece. He sure was a very busy man back in the day :cool:

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Cybergoth

Nothing much to report from last night. I played up to level 23 now. The difficulty level of the game is insane. I could only defeat the last enemy of level 22 by slowing the emulation down to 40%. I've no idea how you're supposed to beat it without cheating :)

 

PS: Also provided a better screenshot for the main article now.

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Cybergoth

Quitting this today out of frustration, this game just sucks.

 

In level 31 I lost a speed-up and it was impossible to get past a certain bouncing barrier then :)

 

I had tons more fun playing W.A.R for example and I don't think I'll ever get why so many people are praising Delta all the time...

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another horizontal scrolling shoot'em up in the form of Zynaps, but first I'll need to shoot something else...

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