Buck Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 Ok, I've had Laser Blast by Activision on cart for may years now. I quickly became bored of it. I bought the Activision Anthology for PS2 and actually played it to get the unlocks. (Commercial and patch) Now does the game ever get more difficult? Does anything else happen besides blast 3 "tanks", move on, repeat? I wouldnt mind if it sped up and increased in difficulty as the game progressed, but I play and play and play, never lose ships and finally just stop because I get bored. Am I missing something with this game? It's a David Crane game so I thought that there may be something good I am missing. (On a side note, on the Activision Anthology, did anyone else notice that the One Million patch is awarded at One Hundred Thousand?) Buck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 Nope. You are missing nothing. Keep going until you flip the score. (If you can keep yourself awake that long) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotokeo2001 Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 The only thing you're missing is the right perspective. Look at the other games that were available at the same time. When it was released I can remember playing it for hours and being amazed at the graphics. Now when I play it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chairmonkey4406 Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 Hey Buck...sorry for asking but is that an atari joystick floating farther away in front of the painted naked ladies in your icon? Just wondering, I can't really tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxglove9 Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 I remember being real bad at Laser Blast when it first came out, but when I started playing it on emulation and on Activision Anthology it was a whole lot easier. I was hoping it got harder too or something different, but after the 20th stage I pretty much guessed that was it. It's still a fun game though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hepcat Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 You're not missing a thing. Laser Blast is probably the worst Activision game. --Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 You're not missing a thing. Laser Blast is probably the worst Activision game. --Jason But it was also one of the first. Along with Freeway, which came out before frogger. Both laser blast and freeway were good games for their time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Posted December 25, 2003 Author Share Posted December 25, 2003 Hey Buck...sorry for asking but is that an atari joystick floating farther away in front of the painted naked ladies in your icon? Just wondering, I can't really tell. Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveW Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Laser Blast was okay when I was a kid. I played it for hours and hours. You have to remember that there wasn't a whole lot of variety in 2600 games back then. No bosses, no RPG-style quests, no deep gameplay. Since we hadn't seen anything better, we were content with the gameplay at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Since we hadn't seen anything better, we were content with the gameplay at the time. I had an Atari from year 1...And I still thought Laser Blast was a turd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 I thought it was amazing.. for about a day. I thought the extremely fast lasers were excellent, and imagined the enemies on the bottom were Imperial Walkers Yeah this was very very early on MERRY CHRISTMAS BY THE WAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 I remember spending a lot of time playing Laser Blast when I was younger, but looking at it now it is a pretty monotonous game. It was one of Activision's earlier titles, and fortunately later titles had more depth. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 No matter how much anyone hates the game, something good came out of it. The "laser" from Laser Blast was used to create the vine in Pitfall, so knowing that it's basically the father of Pitfall should earn it a little respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 so knowing that it's basically the father of Pitfall should earn it a little respect. Hmmm Valid point... But still..... *farts on Laser Blast* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Hmmm Valid point... But still..... *farts on Laser Blast* Funniest post of the week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 You cannot call Laser Blast an early game. It was released in 1981 which was the fifth year of the VCS:2600! Space Invaders and Adventure came out one year before in 1980 for heavens sake! Laser Blast was one of the 20 carts that I owned from the early days ('77-'83) and the last cart that I bought then. And I have to say that it was the least played of all my carts then. (Well I did return Canyon Bomber to the Sears store because I hated it.) Anyway what would you wish to change about Laser Blast to make it more challenging? Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Anyway what would you wish to change about Laser Blast to make it more challenging? I would have produced the cart with a padded case on it, as it is, it's no challenge smashing it to pieces when throwing it against a wall or hitting it with a hammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 I would have produced the cart with a padded case on it, as it is, it's no challenge smashing it to pieces when throwing it against a wall or hitting it with a hammer. Haha! Merry Rasberries to you! Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 I dunno. Maybe if they had made the game a little more meaningfull. After you kill 12 of those tanks you get a little mark that lets you know you did it (similar to Robot tank) and the enemy changes from tanks to Jeeps...Or hell just changes color.... changes to ANYTHING!!!! Maybe start off with some big ass semi's you have to hit and every 12 kills the enemy changes and gets a tad bit smaller and harder to hit. Really anything you did to add variety would spice it up some.... Still it would take a bit to mold it into a must have game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Wasn't there a game variation where the enemy move back and forth across the bottom of the screen? Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic George 2K3 Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Try combining the action of Laser Blast with Space Jockey, would be my suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 It might not be the best game ever put out by Activision but it was still a fun game. I remember playing it a lot when I first got the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Laser Blast is a small 2K game. Maybe it was planned larger with more variations and then marketing forced David to make it fit into 2K. That would at least explain the missing variations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 so knowing that it's basically the father of Pitfall should earn it a little respect. Hmmm Valid point... But still..... *farts on Laser Blast* Does that mean if we play it on Darth Vader 2600, something special would happen? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylentwulf Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 You cannot call Laser Blast an early game. It was released in 1981 which was the fifth year of the VCS:2600! Space Invaders and Adventure came out one year before in 1980 for heavens sake!Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Noone said it was an early release game. They said it was an early/one of the first released ACTIVISION games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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