Ok, so based on the latest video and developer notes, we are now officially looking forward to FDG’s Bobby Carrot Forever game for the iPhone. Bobby Carrot is a puzzle game that we’ve mentioned a couple of times before on Touch Arcade. The game appears to be similar to Chips Challenge / Loopy Laboratory in which obstacles (switches, keys, breakaway floors) must be overcome on each level to progress.
The new trailer, however, shows that the game seems to include an incredibly wide variety of obstacles:
The developer has revealed that the game will provide over 15 hours of gameplay and is expected to be available in January for $7.99.
Each of the 60 levels is promised to deliver “a whole new challenge and look" with more difficult levels possibly taking as long as 30-60 minutes to solve.
What impresses me most is getting useful two-finger control out of the one-mouse iPhone Simulator!
Never heard of Battlezone, but this looks promisingly like Spectre, the old game for Apple II, and later remakes for the Mac... Fond memories of primitive LAN play over phonenet in my high school's computer lab.
*DROOL*
i can't wait
Whaaaaaat??? Never heard of Battlezone! God, I'm getting old.
This looks freaking amazing (if you know and loved the original).
hmm, that song i enjoyed. anybody know it?
Excited! I used to love Battlezone. Showing my age here, me and my buddy when we were way to young to be in pubs would spend hours in the one his dad owned in London and play the original arcade machine complete with the "periscope" view. Not very hygienic, but very immersing!
LOL@Nuke!
If they're going put in jeeps and helicopters in there, hell, I'm getting it for sure. Wait, do we get to use helicopters and jeeps? I'd love to take a tank out from the air. Hmmm, either way, I'm getting it.
Battlezone is simply one of the best arcade games ever. Atari actually made a version for the army which was a simulator called Bradley Trainer
This is looking awesome... wonder if they can institute Multiplayer?
looking forward to this!!!
Hah! That video was awesome. The song was perfect! The game reminds me of playing Spectr VR on my old Performa. Really liked that game. Will be getting this one.
My article about the Luna City Arcade from some time back:
http://www.bytecellar.com/a...
And...wow. One of our readers hasn't heard of Battlezone before.
Gah! Haven't heard of Battlezone. I suppose you've never heard of vinyl records or console games that came in cartridges, either...
Anyway, this? Looks. freaking. AWESOME. Jesus everlubbin' crikey. Massive WANT.
Peter is really going for his sainthood...
Good choice for a retro game on the iPhone. The old color scheme (black background) will work well in bright light or outdoors. Perhaps the developer would consider a config option to change the color of the vector lines from green to any other color (e.g., red etc.).
Nice song. Hope they're gonna put out a lite version so that I can try it out.
A video of one of Peter's Luna City game days.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Man, if someone could do a Spectre clone with wifi multiplayer (local or internet) that would be awesome...
god I hope this has some wifi multiplayer.
Imagine playing team CTF or some other objective based team multiplayer gametype where you have a choice of jeep, tank, or helicopter. Pure gold right there.
Nice work - I was going to write this myself, this has saved me some effort!
Looks like you dont need to be as much of a sharpshooter with this version either. I remember needing to hit a tank EXACTLY in BZ and it was very frustrating.
A wifi multi player version would be sweet.
I am playing this game in Ad Hoc. (Thanks Peter) And it feels way more "pedal to the metal" than Battlezone. It feels great!
Just sharing. You guys are in for some good retro fun. Can't wait for the final release.
This looks great....you can count me in!
After this, how about a port of Tempest!?!?
Awesome. This looks like the perfect Battlezone clone. (How can anyone not know battlezone? Landmark arcade game, followed years later by a couple of great PC games. ..though I would have preferred it if the PC ones had avoided resource-management.)
If I had done this I probably wouldn't have thought of the bouncy suspension. That's a real good idea. I wonder if UrbanSnake would licence their "blow s--t up" song to go in it? Great in-game song. :)
@blake
Does peter have a mailing list?
Something to track his progress?
used to play this game for hours in college.. now it looks like I'm gonna play some more once its out.. wicked soundtrack
UNREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAL :)
Hi anyone know what is up with this program/website? The game no longer works for me on the 4.0 update, it runs for a moment then quits back to the main menu, anyone else getting this? And their homesite is down because they (as the error states) have not paid their bill. This sucks, I loved this game a lot, but this is shitty.