[Coco] Fix It Felix retro style game (based on Donkey Kong style of play)

[Bill Loguidice]

Just an FYI, Crazy Climber was (relatively) recently ported to the Bally
Astrocade with good results. A "best approach" would be to offer multiple
control options like that game, i.e., a single joystick, dual joysticks,
and even keyboard. It's all workable. The Atari 2600 version from 1983 used
a single joystick only.

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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> On May 2, 2013, at 12:23 AM, Steve Bjork <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > I've played the "Fix It Felix" game at Disneyland and found it wanting.
>  The controls were bad and play like a bad early 80's arcade game.  Trust
> me, there were a lot of bad games back then.  The good thing about the game
> it was free to play.
>
> Something FREE at Disneyland?
>
> > One game that would be easy to port using the vertical scroll technology
> used in Marty's Nightmare would be Crazy Climber.
> > (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJAEmOtLZHg)
>
> Hmmm, I don't know if I ever saw a CoCo version of that. The dual joystick
> controls were what made that game. The home version (Atari?) I played still
> had much of the same feel. I recall playing a bootleg Donkey Kong (Crazy
> Kong) and bootleg Crazy Climber at a convenience store in Houston (1984?)
> and their cabinets had different joysticks -- more like Atari 2600 sticks.
> It made Crazy Climber much easier to play than the Wico-ball type sticks on
> the official.
>
> So Steve -- if you were designing a Crazy Climber type game for the CoCo,
> what approach would you take for the controls?
>
> (Crazy Climber was one of my favorite arcade games.)
>
>                 -- Allen
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