ADG Episode 190 - Galactix (1988)

[@x86VileR]

Love those early obscurities! Another benefit to using those modifier keys is, even if you stick with the BIOS, they're the cheapest (code-wise) to read, which is why most of those tiny 'sizecoding' games use them as well.

[@BeyondTheScanlines]

Huh. That's a totally cool move with the keyboard handling - interesting little factoid, along with an interesting little game too!

[@theoveranalysticjake378]

You still have a talent for breaking games.

[@jarbothehutt7027]

The alien looks like a fat version of those ones from the first Commander Keen.

[@weirdproq]

The gameplay of platforming and picking up and dropping items reminds me of the Dizzy series.

[@Pixelmusement]

+weirdproq1 ...now that you mention it, this game DOES remind me of the Dizzy series... just with a million times less death. ;D

[@AlyxxTheRat]

The message at the end has me intrigued O.o

[@IllidanS4]

Nice music at the end.

[@Roarkethemerciless]

The link provided doesen't allow the sound to be played under Dosbox turbo.

[@Pixelmusement]

The sound will glitch out if the cycles count is set too high, as the sound playback is tied to the game speed.

[@salty-horse]

I had this on a shareware CD but never played it beyond the first few screens :) If you're looking for another obscure adventure-y game, see "Menace of Dr. Spoil Sport" (also found on the same shareware CD :D )

[@KaroKoenich]

That looks like a game I would like to play.

[@AlobarMusic]

Those aliens remind me of the first Commander Keen games

[@verismeris6922]

At least they didn't use sysreq as part of the controls. :P Oh and raising elephants is so utterly boring. [edit] The f key has a little indent on most keyboards, as its the end of the homerow. Doesn't actually sound too bad.

[@lilwyvern4]

Nobody got the guess? I know I sure as heck didn't even try. By the way, I get the feeling that the filler is going to be about Slime Rancher. I really should give that a try.

[@Pixelmusement]

Actually, TECHNICALLY one person got the guess, but they didn't submit it through normal means and didn't actually care to after I mentioned they could. So, in a sense, there was ONE correct guess, but it was completely anonymous. ;)

[@jacobthesitton9142]

Once Again You Seem To Have A Talent For BREAKING GAMES! :P

[@Pixelmusement]

It's what I do. :D

[@jacobthesitton9142]

***** :D

[@shdon]

I actually have this game from the original PC Plus disk and no, it didn't come with the source code.

[@JimLeonard]

Is the source code needed? The game is a single 64K .COM file written in assembler; it would be pretty easy to disassemble it and produce source code for it.

[@shdon]

The joy of .COM files. I played around with DEBUG.EXE quite a lot trying to figure things out. But I was just answering the question Kris posed in the video :)

[@JimLeonard]

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[@Pixelmusement]

I still don't think anyone's figured out what's going on yet. ;)

[@shdon]

I keep trying to make it out. Still no idea yet though.