Planet Bob

Phew... I managed to conquer about half the grid tonight, 10/22 sectors.

 

This is a very tough game, too bad there isn't a trainer version available.

 

The major showstopper is some kind of approval meter. You start with 1000 points here and it increases when you destroy enemy things and it decreases when you call for reinforcements.

 

I need to take more care for my skimmer vehicles, trying to use as few as possible tomorrow.

After pausing last night (Germany-Finland 3:3 ), I had a very good game tonight! I was just focusing on a single skimmer and that apparently does the trick! I managed to conquer all but 8 sectors now and have still over 800 points left, so chances are very good that I can possibly beat it tomorrow

And once again I'm victorious in the end:

 

 

It seems nobody really expected that someone would actually win this, as with displaying this screen the map section went buggy. (There's no '1' displayed in the white skimmer circle, and my reserve skimmer got magically duplicated.)

 

As you can see, I didn't conquer all sectors, there's 4 remaining, indicated by the yellow '+' symbols. At this point I just took the risk and went straight into the core.

 

While I didn't use any real cheat or trainer, I was using a lot of savestates, so this was mostly a tool assisted victory. Not sure if it can be done without. It is a very, very, very hard game.

 

It's also not a very good game. I just have this irrational weakness for ancient 8-Bit 3D games. They manage to fascinate me somehow

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see an even weirder 3D game in the form of "Cholo", but first there's some more ems to shoot up.