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[VanGoghX]

[emeraldbeacon]

[Ping Cruft]

It could even be members of FL that wanted to clue Alan in on having found something (even if they don't know WHAT.)


Don't look at me like that. It's s valid a theory as 'programs/users from inside the machine calling from a disconnected number.'

[Ihatebees498]

[VanGoghX]

[DarkJaguar]

[emeraldbeacon]

[Euchre]

Considering Kevin Flynn was supposed to be gifted and making very advanced games, I'd say Space Paranoids isn't stretching too much, even for 1982. I remember Zaxxon from 1982, which was 3D in style and a degree of function, by 'cheating' a little in the way the side scrolling was done (you could change elevation and the perspective was such it gives a sense of depth). Just the idea of traveling in three dimensions is represented in games as early as Starship 1, which was the first video game I ever played. It used line graphics and your controller only really moved left and right, up and down, but your perspective was of traveling constantly forward - so you were given a 3D perspective of approach. As far as advancement in 3D gaming experience with surprisingly well designed grapics (although not with polygons) After Burner is pretty notable in 1987. If you throw in the previously mentioned I, Robot game, all the pieces are there to make something like Space Paranoids possible in 1982, let alone 1989.

If you want an example of a personal computer that could do 3D rendering early on (1985), consider the Amiga.

[Broklynite]

Erm...I feel that I ought to point out that we only see moments of the game on the arcade screen. What we see shows a stationary turret, a tank either frozen or moving in one solid direction, and shooting upwards at a nearing recognizer. I never assumed that you could really drive the tank- we never see it turn or anything. There were faux 3-D perspective games at the time. Had they wanted, I'm pretty sure they could have made it. It just looked, well, boring. Look, the whole point of the game was to show us the Recognizers as well as to show us that Flynn is a kid at heart, etc. etc. The game itself consisted of shooting up. One could theorize that one would have to time the shooting well, but I wouldn't have wasted more than a quarter on it back in the day.

If the code had been advanced to 1989, I would have still been pretty shocked to have the SPO version for one of my home computers. That said, there was a FPS created even back then, called The Colony. It came out in 1988, has real-time rendering, even had a driving section. And it was a friggin awesome game. It was in black and white at that point but was re-released in 1990 in color for the Amiga (I played mine on my Mac).

Edit: In fact, here's a nice youtube video done by the creator talking about it a bit and showing it. The graphics might seem simple now but back then? Mind. Blowing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1XENlUUOhA

[Clu Program]

I just saw this:

[VanGoghX]

[ReRez]

There must be a time limit to obtain the "Overkill" mail in pin as well as the Search for Sam Flynn pin and stickers. I completely missed both of these parts of the game, so I decided to try and solve them both recently- this was shortly before CC2010. Still no pins. My Flynn Lives user name is UserX. If 42e follows the ARG.

[mlinsley]

[thebruce]

ReRez, mlinsley:
Both of you, PM me

[KC0GRN]

Yeah I finished the space paranoids Recognizer Kills a few weeks ago, well after the game was introduced, and around the same time I completed all the levels in Circuit Cycles.

I got all the postcards form the Circuit Cycles accomplishment, but no space paranoids pin or sam flynn's 89 logo. I assume I was just too late.