Francis Ichabod Cranium 8 (2600)

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Here's another 2k game I'm making for the Atari 2600. You start with three lives. Each time a waffle hits you you lose a life, and you have to wait a couple of seconds to press fire to start up again. The pretzels don't harm you. Francis shoots in the last x direction you moved. He can move up and down, but he can only shoot horizontally. The b&w/color switch works. I have about 500 bytes left, so I can add some changes. So, what do you think?

fice16.bin

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Changed some sound effects and I think I got rid of a bug that caused you to die if you shot the pretzel at close range (I think the problem was perhaps once the pretzel was gone and it turned into a waffle too soon then it detected as you hitting the waffle with your body and thus dying.) I have 535 bytes left so I can still make some good changes to this game.

fice20170310.zip

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What seemed so simple I spent all day working on. I changed the final death sound and made it longer.

fice20170311.zip

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I didn't like the way I had to use the sleep command, so I spent a few hours reworking the code so it shouldn't jump any time you start the game up after turning it on. It was doing that sometimes on a real 2600 in the previous version.

fice20170312.zip

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In an effort to make this harder, I changed a few things. If you touch a pretzel, you become invincible for a short time, even to waffles (three items' length.) To tell if Francis is invisible or not, his shirt color will change. Because of this, the pretzels appear less often. I now have 357 bytes left.

fice20170314.zip