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Does anyone remember some installs shipped with a game called gorilla.bas? A fun little game where you had two gorillas across a cityscape and the whole idea wa
by deckarep 8y ago
Does anyone remember some installs shipped with a game called gorilla.bas? A fun little game where you had two gorillas across a cityscape and the whole idea was to take turns throwing bananas at each other to see who can get a critical hit.
What made it hard is you had to enter both an angle and speed and hope you calculated the right combination to hit the other player.
Eventually I wrote my own version of the game in flash/actionscript....but it’s long gone.
- tyingq 8y agoHere's a js/html5 port: http://www.kylem.net/stuff/gorilla.html http://www.kylem.net/stuff/gorilla.html
- deckarep 8y agoYep that looks like a legit clone of it. Thanks for the link.
- xigency 8y agoThat's a very common game or example often with tanks. I like this gorilla/banana theme.
- MrBuddyCasino 8y agoYes! This was the best BASIC game I ever knew.
- xtagon 8y agoWhen I was first learning about programming, I had hours and hours of enjoyment just from modifying that game even though I didn't quite know what I was doing. Just things like changing the banana speed or making bananas spawn other bananas when they hit. Another fun one was called Labyrinth (I think it was spelled LABRNTH.BAS or something). I liked it so much that years later I started making two remakes (one in HTML canvas/JS, one in DCPU-16). QBasic was a great introductory language for a kid wanting to learn programming IMO.
- Intermernet 8y agoOriginal file looks like it's available here: https://gist.github.com/caffo/1326838 https://gist.github.com/caffo/1326838
- nineteen999 8y agoSomebody on github wrote a version for CP/M-80, and I ended up getting it running on my Z80-emulator-inside-Unreal-Engine project: https://i.imgur.com/GP8Rgqf.png https://i.imgur.com/GP8Rgqf.png https://i.imgur.com/xWggyAo.png https://i.imgur.com/xWggyAo.png