Classic Game Room - BLUE MAX review for Atari XEGS

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Classic Game Room reviews BLUE MAX for the Atari XEGS (Atari XE Computer) from 1987!

[cyberzonie]

The version I had was on a floppy disk for my Atari 800, one of my favorite games

[TheIsolatedGamerz]

Even the way mark announces the backers is entertaining. :)

[DrForrester]

For the record, modern planes don't have "reverse" either. If you need to back up, you have to either get towed or get out and push. Or more likely, just circle the tarmac.

[thegrasshopperliesheavy]

HA! I had this as a kid, along with Barnyard Blasters and a few more. I have my XEGS still in a box somewhere.

[IMDRanged]

Nice! I had this for the Atari 800XL on 5 1/4 inch disc by Synapse. I believe to land when the after the screen is beeping flashing, you should see an "L" for landing on the lower right corner. You need to hold the stick to make the plane down till the plane slows and stops. I think it had pilot controls, so you hold pushing down over the runway.

[delta]

Today I learned that landing strips are made out of ground-up horses. Amazing.

[craigmartinj]

Watch your speed indicator - you will see it drop from 200 (your flying speed) to 100 (your landing speed). When it is at 100 proceed straight down over the runway being careful to give yourself enough room to take (reach 100). I played this game for hours when it came out and after a brief learning curve had no trouble landing. You remind me how much I miss this game!

After take off immediately pull HARD to the left or right away from the river to get to the city which has more interesting targets.

[CiroGalli]

4:47 Take that children's hospice.

[gamerguy]

delayed reaction, but thankfully it didn't take long for the merch to come back up. glad I can get a T-shirt now, by the time I got to them when the second run of the show ended there weren't any left in my size...

[Michirin]

But the landing sequence in Top Gun isn't really hard... If you know what you're doing I mean... What's difficult though is the refuelling sequence, I could never get it done...

[Aoi]

I had this on my 1200XL. So the one thing I can think you're doing is you're driving the plane into the landing strip. It takes a second to actually slow down and stop, so you can be tempted to keep pushing down even though you're already landed, and it crashes the plane. Get to the point you look like you're touching concrete and just leave the controller alone and you should be fine, if that makes sense. It's the fact that it keeps going at normal speed for a second or two that can really throw you and make you want to keep pushing down further.

[cobelli]

wath is the musical theme of the beginning of the video I love

[Crazy_Borg]

1:44 "you drop your landing gear"
WW1 airplanes didn't have retracktable landing gear, it was fixed.

[teknifix]

Dude. Mark. Long Live Truxton! Please do an episode on Moon Patrol for the Atari Home Computer. I think I might have to take a long walk out of a high window if you don't!

Soundgarden rulez, btw.

[samwyse]

I've never had a problem with landing in the Commodore 64 version.

[jaredgraywest]

Not sure why you're having such problems with the landing, I've never exploded like that... you just pull down until the plane starts to stop by itself.

[DTM-Books]

You kinda had to be there. It's one of those videogames.

[BLY]

So this show nowadays is basically:

*Youtube commercial
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*Patreon for comic
*Patreon for show
Actual videogame review
*Promotion for his own store
*More Patreon for show
*Patreon shoutout
*Promotion of social media and Patreon of course

[scottthewaterwarrior]

So is this based on the 1966 movie? Weird tie in in that case.

[Jesses]

So an awesome complicated game that has one glaring problem that ruins all of it.