Thanks to the wonders of
MAME I played
one of my favourite obscure arcade games,
Off
the Wall. It's a 1991 Atari title that's highly pleasing with
impressionist graphics, clever gameplay, and fantastic music produced
on the YM2151
FM synthesis chip. I made a small sample of the music; listen to
the Ogg.
MAME is an important contribution to video game history. Gameplay was
so great back in the day!
You can do a lot with 336x240 graphics and
a 7.16MHz 68000.
I took me 86 quarters and a couple of hours to get to wave 101. The game doesn't really change much after wave 60. If only I had two analog dial controllers, it's a really fun two player game. |