Out of the blue, memories of playing Thexder pop into my head.
Out of the blue, memories of playing Thexder pop into my head.
No Atari or Nintendo at my house.
This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
Better tag Paul V. for mecha.
ReplyDeleteAh Thexder, the first game I absolutely sucked at. But not the last!
ReplyDeleteIt was hard.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of this. Probably because there was never a PC at my house.
ReplyDeleteBut the mecha looks like a clunky ripoff of a Valkyrie from Macross.
ReplyDeleteThe sequel has even better art:
ReplyDeletehttp://goo.gl/OfuIs4
That's because it was, Paul V.. I liked it because it was like Jetfire from Transformers.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, I've heard of FIRE HAWK.
ReplyDeleteThey were both hard, or I was terrible. Thexder was one of my first games.
ReplyDeleteHoly shit mcga graphics.
ReplyDeleteIs that a crotch siren?
ReplyDeleteYou turn into a jet. That's your crotch-nose-cone.
ReplyDeleteIt shoots lasers when you're a plane. Crotch lasers.
ReplyDeleteI remember this as the game where you turned into an airplane and crashed.
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