Comments on: ROM CHECK FAIL

ROM CHECK FAIL

CrunchyFrog — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:53:08 -0800

ROM CHECK FAIL is a goofy little PC game, in the classic 1980's arcade/home console genre of ... err ... Use the space bar to fire your blaster. Or sword. (Or jump.) Use the arrow keys to control your ... guy as if you were playing ... that ... classic game. Eliminate all the enemy, well, things in the expected way, and go on to the next maze/planet/cave/highway. Look, just play it, OK? It's fun!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:23:49 -0800

grumblegrumbleNOMACVERSIONgrumblegrumble

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:24:11 -0800

(sounds fun)

By: painquale

painquale — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:26:47 -0800

This is totally great. But man, it sucks when you become Space Invaders guy. Link and Pacman are the best.

By: Skwirl

Skwirl — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:54:31 -0800

Okay, that was fun and I see that the ADDness is part of the joke, but it would be about 1000x more fun and 1000x less "they think they're so smart, har har..." if they gave you some actual time to play around before going all ADD on you... At least on the early levels. At the very least, the time between switching ROMs should occassionally be random and give you some free whomping time when you're lucky. (Or make you sweat bullets as Space Invaders' ship vs. Qix Sparx) Speeaking of, there's not equal representation here... Is a little Qix diamond physics too hard to code up? No Octoroks love? Tetris? Bub and Bob?

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:28:59 -0800

grumblegrumbleNOMACVERSIONgrumblegrumble grumblegrumblePARALLELS/BOOTCAMPgrumblegrumble?

By: Tzarius

Tzarius — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:03:09 -0800

Alt+Enter to go fullscreen, if it's not already obvious.

By: painquale

painquale — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:43:07 -0800

Can anyone finish the game a second time through (on "the princess is in another faster" mode)? I got up to level 12 on the second time around, but it's really luck dependent. This is a fun little time waster.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:18:55 -0800

I'm afraid I'm with Skwirl on this one -- actually playing any of those sub-games would be fun if they ran a bit longer, or if there were "switch conditions" or something, but as it is I didn't really enjoy it. Although I do appreciate the ambition and creativity involved.

By: Uther Bentrazor

Uther Bentrazor — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:12:06 -0800

This is fun, aggravatingly addicting, too. Although I admit this answers the question of "who would win in a fight between video game characters", the answer being the Defender ship.

By: nielm

nielm — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:35:49 -0800

the irony... 2.8 megabytes of compressed executable to emulate a 64k RAM machine...

By: acb

acb — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:43:58 -0800

IS ROM CHECK FAIL an embedded MAME ROM, or a native C/C++ Windows game? If the former, is it possible to get it running with MAME on a non-Windows machine? -- another person who's to cheap to buy a copy of Windows

By: King Bee

King Bee — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:30:49 -0800

grumblegrumblePARALLELS/BOOTCAMPgrumblegrumble? grumblegrumblePOWERPCgrumblegrumble

By: acb

acb — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:33:09 -0800

Actually, looking at it, it appears to be largely written in Python (though the source is not included). I wonder whether the author could be persuaded to make it available for non-Windows users.

By: LogicalDash

LogicalDash — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:40:33 -0800

Seems to run fine in WINE. Ha, I'm going to try out some of the other entries in the VGNG competition. Corporate Moped Horde! It's an actual game!

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:44:31 -0800

Huh. Kind of interesting, but some of the levels make play kind of hit or miss with various game/enemy combinations. The Space Invaders base is worthless in anything but a clear field, likewise the Spy Hunter car is kind of limited. And what the hell is Mario's attack supposed to be. Kind of cute for the download and five spare minutes...

By: JHarris

JHarris — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:42:25 -0800

Although I admit this answers the question of "who would win in a fight between video game characters", the answer being the Defender ship. What, was this ever in doubt?