+slx Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Wavy Navy is great as well, very intense gameplay and a lot more challenges than "normal" invaders. If you go that route, there are some good ones, like Bandits and Wavy Navy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Wavy Navy is great as well, very intense gameplay and a lot more challenges than "normal" invaders. Some people are probably not aware, there are two versions of this game in circulation. One version has helicopters that shoot and there's another version where they don't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 (edited) Ah, I thought I was going nuts, I noticed that a little while ago when we all were having a chat about the game and got the taste to play it and thought it was kind of weird the choppers were not shooting but put it down to me miss remembering, thank you MrFish, small amount of sanity recovered As for Bandits and AE, like Wavy Navy they are excellent Invaders / Galaxian type shooters, I played Bandits solidly for ages after I got it, apart from the screen lag when the screen got busy with enemies it was just great fun, the feeling of making it through one of those torturous bouncing ball waves was great (Pang before Pang). AE's only bug bear was the shooting mechanism, just undercooking the button press to then be wiped out by a low strafing baddie was annoying but you just had to see the next screen.. (too few) Edited January 3, 2018 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegad Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Speaking of Bandits... does anyone have an .xex version of it? I wanted to put it on a MaxFlash cart, but the only version I have is an .atr and it's not working (crashes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 So out of all these I'd say the Roklan Deluxe Invaders (which incidentally is an *official* port of the arcade game) is the best one. I always hated the Atari 8-bit version. 5200 version is only slightly better. This is one case where the VCS versions is way better. In spite of the VCS Space Invaders not being very faithful it's fun and the variations a pretty fun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbaeza Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Does Space Pussies count? Regards, Louis BQ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug0909 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 A bit off topic, but I asked this elsewhere and didn't hear back, still curious... I loved the 5200 version of space invaders with the analog controls, despite the joysticks. Right now my 5200 is gathering dust and I'm getting into the A8 bit. Is there a conversion of 5200 space invaders to 8 bit which allows paddle controls? For that matter are there 5200 to 8bit conversions of Galaxian or Pole Position that translate the analog controls to paddle control? I looked and I don't think so, but I think that'd add an interesting twist to gameplay for all 3 games, especially space invaders.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Most of the time they just convert them to normal joystick, especially if that's what it was in the arcade originally. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACML Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Speaking of Bandits... does anyone have an .xex version of it? I wanted to put it on a MaxFlash cart, but the only version I have is an .atr and it's not working (crashes). I second the request for an XEX version. What a cool game. Never knew it existed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccorm Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) And there's always Sneakers as well. If Sneakers is considered a Space Invaders type game, then I'd think you'd also want Satan's Hollow and Threshold? EDIT: And is Stratos a step too far? Edited January 20, 2018 by jmccorm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccorm Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Juno First? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 Speaking of Bandits... does anyone have an .xex version of it? I wanted to put it on a MaxFlash cart, but the only version I have is an .atr and it's not working (crashes). I cannot find a XEX of Bandits but I did find a "fixed" ATR on the AtariMax forums. I used it to successfully create a 1mb MaxFlash cart image to use on my Ultimate & UNO carts. The attached RAR includes the ATR, my MaxFlash CAR image, and my Workbook file. Bandits (FIXED).rar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeter Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I cannot find a XEX of Bandits but I did find a "fixed" ATR on the AtariMax forums. I used it to successfully create a 1mb MaxFlash cart image to use on my Ultimate & UNO carts. The attached RAR includes the ATR, my MaxFlash CAR image, and my Workbook file. Many thanks for this. Doesn't work for me on my 48K 800 but there's always Altirra. And more incentive to invest in a Sio2sd Btw, great game. Sirius Software put out some stellar games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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