A strangely addictive and nifty game
Feb. 13th, 2004 02:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasIt's called The Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers.
It's, technically, sorta a fighting game. Or maybe a sports game.
It was designed for DOS and 486, but it seems to run just fine on the awful DOS emulation that Windows 2000 has, so I assume that it will run under any DOS emulation. And there's a Mac version, as well. Er, no there isn't. There's a dead link to where a Mac version used to be. But maybe the source code is available.
Anyway -- um. You're this guy, see? And you're grappling with this other guy. And it's a 2-d game. And the only thing you can move is your leg and foot. You can bend or extend your leg, you can stretch it forward or back. That's it.
So, you and your opponent, effectively, form one body, in physics-terms. You control one leg of the body, your opponent controls the other. And you're trying to dump your opponent on its head.
Look, I can't explain it very well. It's really primitive vector graphics. And it's kind of amusing and weird for the first couple minutes you are playing, then you start to figure it out, and then it becomes ADDICTIVE, as you actually attempt to come up with strategies, maneuvers, and combinations, based entirely on moving one foot around.
It's, technically, sorta a fighting game. Or maybe a sports game.
It was designed for DOS and 486, but it seems to run just fine on the awful DOS emulation that Windows 2000 has, so I assume that it will run under any DOS emulation. And there's a Mac version, as well. Er, no there isn't. There's a dead link to where a Mac version used to be. But maybe the source code is available.
Anyway -- um. You're this guy, see? And you're grappling with this other guy. And it's a 2-d game. And the only thing you can move is your leg and foot. You can bend or extend your leg, you can stretch it forward or back. That's it.
So, you and your opponent, effectively, form one body, in physics-terms. You control one leg of the body, your opponent controls the other. And you're trying to dump your opponent on its head.
Look, I can't explain it very well. It's really primitive vector graphics. And it's kind of amusing and weird for the first couple minutes you are playing, then you start to figure it out, and then it becomes ADDICTIVE, as you actually attempt to come up with strategies, maneuvers, and combinations, based entirely on moving one foot around.
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Date: 2004-02-13 09:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
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