Comments on: 'Boulder Dash' Gameplay Video with Retro and New Graphics http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/ ... keeping in touch with the latest in iPhone gaming Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:53:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve McD http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22545 Steve McD Sat, 16 May 2009 20:56:59 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22545 30 mins later or so... still loving it!! just as addictive as I remember it.. My only recommendation for the next version would be to allow a slightly faster moving character if possible.... (maybe 3 speed levels - "new" "original" and "extreme" for example... again if possible.. Its amazing it runs as it does anyway... 30 mins later or so… still loving it!!
just as addictive as I remember it..

My only recommendation for the next version would be to allow a slightly faster moving character if possible…. (maybe 3 speed levels – "new" "original" and "extreme" for example… again if possible..
Its amazing it runs as it does anyway…

]]> By: Steve McD http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22542 Steve McD Sat, 16 May 2009 20:24:21 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22542 Just played it! I take it I may be one of the first... Absolutely awesome!!! I give the developers 10/10 for this one. Special introductory price. Worth every penny. In my opinion, this is one of the top game titles on the iphone... Total playability.... Fanastic conversion. its eary days yet but if you zoom in a bit, your "man" appears to move a bit faster.. Love it... right back to the game...... Just played it! I take it I may be one of the first…

Absolutely awesome!!!
I give the developers 10/10 for this one.
Special introductory price.

Worth every penny.

In my opinion, this is one of the top game titles on the iphone…
Total playability….

Fanastic conversion.
its eary days yet but if you zoom in a bit, your "man" appears to move a bit faster.. Love it… right back to the game……

]]> By: Steve McD http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22540 Steve McD Sat, 16 May 2009 20:12:25 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22540 ITS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOWNLOADING NOW!!! PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THERE IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DOWNLOADING NOW!!!

PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Steve McD http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22539 Steve McD Sat, 16 May 2009 20:11:09 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22539 Its showing the icon and price UK 2.99 - so I hope we are just waiting on the uk store updating itself... patience... must have patience........... I have to say.. I did expect it to be a pound or so dearer.... not that I am complaining mind... Its showing the icon and price UK 2.99 – so I hope we are just waiting on the uk store updating itself…
patience…

must have patience………..

I have to say.. I did expect it to be a pound or so dearer…. not that I am complaining mind…

]]> By: Steve McD http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22538 Steve McD Sat, 16 May 2009 20:09:27 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22538 what the ?????*%$%$% I just searched itunes (UK Store) and for the first time - it is now showing the app up.. When I click to buy it - it comes up "not available in the uk store" - what is up with that???? argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what the ?????*%$%$%

I just searched itunes (UK Store) and for the first time – it is now showing the app up..
When I click to buy it – it comes up "not available in the uk store" – what is up with that????
argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Steve McD http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22537 Steve McD Sat, 16 May 2009 20:07:25 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22537 what happened??? 16th now! what happened???
16th now!

]]> By: Andie http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22512 Andie Sat, 16 May 2009 13:19:37 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22512 where is this game? :( i keep searching the app store to no avail! where is this game? :( i keep searching the app store to no avail!

]]> By: Lubby http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22388 Lubby Fri, 15 May 2009 15:08:44 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22388 It's the 16th here and it's still not in the appstore :( It's the 16th here and it's still not in the appstore :(

]]> By: Mythbuster http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22321 Mythbuster Thu, 14 May 2009 15:38:27 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22321 In Europe less than seven hours until the 15th ... :) In Europe less than seven hours until the 15th … :)

]]> By: TKO http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/12/boulder-dash-gameplay-video-with-retro-and-new-graphics/#comment-22259 TKO Thu, 14 May 2009 01:16:24 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=7258#comment-22259 Hehe.. Most people end up liking what they first knew. The young 'uns say "it was only in the first few that he didn't have the hard-hat" ..well, yeah. But for everyone who started on the original BoulderDash (on the c64, Apple, Spectrum, etc) Rockford was a creature ..In BoulderDash III they may have given him a space-suit, but he was still a creature, not a man ..and he wasn't so wimpy as to need a hard hat. :D But I don't take so much issue with that decision. It's the dirt, the rocks, and the goddamn *colours* of the new graphics that I can't stand. I can handle the butterflies and fireflies looking less abstract. I can handle Rockford being a man in a hard-hat (though I'd question why you'd do it when it takes away a prime element of Boulderdash's uniqueness) ..but IMHO there should have been some art-design went into updating the graphics. Those are just garish. So it's for that reason, and the nostalgia, that I'll play it retro. :) Hehe.. Most people end up liking what they first knew. The young 'uns say "it was only in the first few that he didn't have the hard-hat" ..well, yeah. But for everyone who started on the original BoulderDash (on the c64, Apple, Spectrum, etc) Rockford was a creature ..In BoulderDash III they may have given him a space-suit, but he was still a creature, not a man ..and he wasn't so wimpy as to need a hard hat. :D

But I don't take so much issue with that decision. It's the dirt, the rocks, and the goddamn *colours* of the new graphics that I can't stand. I can handle the butterflies and fireflies looking less abstract. I can handle Rockford being a man in a hard-hat (though I'd question why you'd do it when it takes away a prime element of Boulderdash's uniqueness) ..but IMHO there should have been some art-design went into updating the graphics. Those are just garish.

So it's for that reason, and the nostalgia, that I'll play it retro. :)

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