19-12-2003 02:39									#1
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Anyone ever play joust?

	19-12-2003 04:07									#2
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Do you mean the old arcade game where you fly around jousting on big birds? If so not since the '80's

	19-12-2003 05:13									#3
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such a sad game

centrifuge there are a million flavours of joust all over the internet.

	19-12-2003 06:25									#4
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joust was fun. i liked hearing your ostrich, or whatever it was, skid as it tried to slow down.


i think it made a skidding sound.....

	19-12-2003 07:27									#5
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I'm pretty sure it was an ostrich. It was a very fun game.

	19-12-2003 09:57									#6
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You fly pterodactyls IIFC. I suck at it, though I saw some dude who could play for hours on a coin.

	19-12-2003 18:52									#7
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A buddy of mine was all in a fit for the last two days trying to find (recently released) midway classics arcade (something or other) for his gamecube. He went to/called 10 different stores and we went and picked it up yesterday at lunch. The main thing that he was excited about was Joust..but he is a strange lad.

I remember playing this in the arcade but just could not get into it, at least not as much as with missle command, defender, or asteriods.

	19-12-2003 18:54									#8
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	19-12-2003 18:58									#9
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quote: Originally posted by centrifuge Do you mean the old arcade game where you fly around jousting on big birds? If so not since the '80's

Yup - '80s was only time i really played arcade games - it was big thing in college and grad school. once i was out of school never really played them again. I saw a reference to joust on the web and it brought back memories.

	20-12-2003 03:23									#10
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Me too. Arcade is dead.

	20-12-2003 03:27									#11
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I used to play (and you flew ostriches, UR, not pterydactyls) and was decent - I broke 200,000 a couple of times. There was also the pterydactyl cheat that one could use to get millions of points - I did that once, got as close to the highest score as the game would allow (I think 9,999,999) and then killed all my guys, snagging the top entry on the game for at least a year.

Yeah, Williams Arcade Classics is a must-have for any 80s arcade fan.

	20-12-2003 03:38									#12
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I played it hundreds of times
(I had an old atari )

It was a good, though amazingly hard game

And it was really fun with 2 players... or yourself playing as two jousters simultaneously!

	20-12-2003 20:23									#13
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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud And it was really fun with 2 players... or yourself playing as two jousters simultaneously!

Oh yeah, since you only need to control how the good guys fly. Still, it's hard enough to control one.

	20-12-2003 22:22									#14
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Joust? I've heard the name before, but it doesen't ring a bell!?!

Could someone please inform clueless me?

	20-12-2003 22:26									#15
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You ride on a bird and have a lance. Your objective is to knock the bad guys off by bumping into them while flying higher.

	21-12-2003 10:59									#16
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My game was Fast Ms Pacman. You know, where she goes super fast and the ghosts go normal speed.

Never plyed Joust, but I've seen it.

	22-12-2003 11:32									#17
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Greatv game, my kids love it... It gives them a laugh to see the old man get into it at times.

	22-12-2003 16:10									#18
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The first game I can remember is Mortal Kombat.

	22-12-2003 20:24									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Sheep The first game I can remember is Mortal Kombat.

Stop making me feel old

	22-12-2003 20:48									#20
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If you hit the pterodactyl just right with your lance you could kill it. It made a loud screech and appeared like it was electrocuted and then it died. I managed to do that once...

	22-12-2003 21:00									#21
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quote: Originally posted by lord of the mark Anyone ever play joust?

Yeah, a lot of fun. I think this is a game that would do well with a high-performance, 3-D remake with all of today's bells and whistles.

	23-12-2003 04:28									#22
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quote: If you hit the pterodactyl just right with your lance you could kill it. It made a loud screech and appeared like it was electrocuted and then it died. I managed to do that once...

I don't think I ever knew that was possible!

	23-12-2003 09:49									#23
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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud I don't think I ever knew that was possible!

It was nearly impossible to do because the winged beast moved so fast. The lance had to go right in its mouth.

	23-12-2003 13:26									#24
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In the early versions of the game (yes, arcade machines went through versions) you could kill ptery after ptery quite easily (possible on wave 4 and after, up until wave ~20, when the troll gets too strong):

1. Have one of your enemies captured by the troll. The troll will hold him down while you kill the rest.

2. With the last bad guy still being held, land on the bottom-middle shelf. Wait for the ptery. He'll come out, and, while you're just standing there, he'll perfectly align his mouth with your lance. Repeat until you're freakin sick and tired of killing the stupid things, or until you get ~250 men, whichever comes first. Do not go above 255 men, as you will lose them all.

	23-12-2003 17:59									#25
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Ahh, the good old 8-bit rollover bug. Heh.

	23-12-2003 19:03									#26
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Bit me twice on Robotron: 2084, both around 25,000,000 points. I got the state record but was going for the national record.

	23-12-2003 20:54									#27
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I don't think I ever got past level 2

	23-12-2003 22:18									#28
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In Robotron? Loser.

I've even broken a million points on MAME using the keyboard, difficulty level 5/extra men every 20,000 points. Not bad for a 36 year old fart.

	24-12-2003 00:02									#29
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Actually, I was talking about JOUST... I don't think I've ever played/or heard of Robotron.

I played Galaga and Joust almost exclusively