SWFROADS
September 17, 2006 5:56 PM   Subscribe

SWFRoads is one of the coolest flash games I've seen in a while.
posted by delmoi (20 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Sorta like Atari's I Robot. Thanks, delmoi!
posted by retronic at 6:10 PM on September 17, 2006


I had a game very, very similar to this on my TI-92 in high school. similar play controls, identical concept, but it used a ball instead of a space ship thingy and you could make it take huge leaps. also, you could build your own levels.
posted by carsonb at 6:13 PM on September 17, 2006


Hey, this is actually playable. But I can't hear anything over Zaxxon's bitching and whining.
posted by loquacious at 6:25 PM on September 17, 2006


Reminded me a lot of zaxxon.
posted by Popular Ethics at 6:26 PM on September 17, 2006


This is nearly identical to Skyroads, which has been around for years.

Neat to see, but not so original. Lots of fun though ;-)
posted by geodave at 6:28 PM on September 17, 2006


Ahh...one of those nice, relaxing don't-have-to-think-too-hard about it kind of games.

Perfect.
posted by meh at 6:54 PM on September 17, 2006


I had a game very, very similar to this on my TI-92 in high school. similar play controls, identical concept, but it used a ball instead of a space ship thingy and you could make it take huge leaps. also, you could build your own levels.

yeah, me too. It was called "Planejump".
posted by delmoi at 6:57 PM on September 17, 2006


i spend a great deal of time playing this game... thanks for the distraction.. i needed it
posted by tonygarcia at 7:23 PM on September 17, 2006


I'll see your Skyroads and raise you one Trailblazer.
posted by wanderingmind at 7:42 PM on September 17, 2006


You need to upgrade your Flash Player

Flash 8 still isn't released from Macromedia in Debian/apt form for Linux, and I'm already seeing Flash *9* apps. Great.

Code to Flash 7, folks, until Macromedia finally gets this done and released. They've been promising it forever. Talk is cheap.
posted by intermod at 7:48 PM on September 17, 2006


macromedia /did/ state they were skipping flash 8 on *nix.
posted by zenzizi at 8:03 PM on September 17, 2006


very neat. as lame as it might sound, i think i'd rather watch someone really good play it then play it myself though.
posted by pokermonk at 8:22 PM on September 17, 2006


I hate to snark when other people like it, but... blah. Too much memorization.
posted by Malor at 9:47 PM on September 17, 2006


Yeah, I only just played the first two levels, but it's a Skyroads clone, no doubt about it. The controls were more responsive with the DOS Skyroads that I played back in the day, too.

The similar TI game is called Plain Jump on the TI-85. Good times. Good times.

Seriously, though. Play the original.
posted by Skwirl at 12:14 AM on September 18, 2006


So this game started out as Plain Jump, then Trailblazer, Skyroads, and now this?

hmm
posted by geodave at 12:31 AM on September 18, 2006


oh man, such memories with skyroads
posted by jimmy at 12:36 AM on September 18, 2006


It started off as Trailblazer in 1986 (which hilariously got a remake for the ill-fated Gizmondo in 2005. SkyRoads came out in 1993. The HP48 calculator version, Babal, came out in 1994. The TI version, Plain Jump, came out in 1996, because TI calculator users weren't as cool as HP users. Now, there is SWFROADS, made circa 2006.

There are undoubtedly untold numbers of other Trailblazer clones.
posted by zsazsa at 5:49 AM on September 18, 2006


TI calculator users weren't as cool as HP users

Blasphamy!
posted by delmoi at 7:27 AM on September 18, 2006


TI calculator users weren't as cool as HP users

Blasphamy!


no, it's true. there was a kid that sat next to me in calc b with a slim little HP gc from the 70's that was about 6x as powerful and functional as my TI-92. it didn't have the bells and whistles, but it did have a printer port and he could use it on a standarized test. oh yeah, he was the kid that just graduated from caltech with about a million letters after his name.
posted by carsonb at 7:45 AM on September 18, 2006


This is actually a Q*Bert clone, but with a ship instead of Q*Bert, roads instead of cubes, tunnels instead of Coily... ah, forget it.
posted by dreamsign at 2:29 AM on September 19, 2006


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