Hello welcome to episode 336 of Oatmeal Breakfast
plays a video game. On this episode I play
a zx spectrum from 1983 called Thrusta. When
I fist played Thrusta I had no clue what I
was supposed to do or what
I was controlling. So I watched a video of
Thrusta being played. And then I figure out
what I wa supposed to do and what I was controlling.
I still did not know what keys to push. I
pressed buttons on my
keyboard and figured out that z goes left,
x goes right, and b goes up and h fires. There
are other keys that I could have used but,
I liked that key combination. There are other
keys that pause game. It
took me a little bit to figure out how to
start the game. I started the game by pressing
s. I played several games of thrusta before
I recorded myself playing it. I really enjoyed
playing Thrustra. The
graphics look good. I did not have sound on
the game I played but, from the video I heard
the sound and I was not missing anything.
The sound was not that great. I could be wrong.
I found that I could shoot
the x things whatever they are called but,
the bigger enemies did not seem to be vulnerable
to shooting. They had to be killed by dropping
rocks on them. Did I say I really liked Thrustra.
Its one of my
favorite zx spectrum games. What is my list
of favorite zx spectrum games so far. manic
minor, pheenix, centipede, spectipede, and
now Thrusta. so Thrust is my fifth favorite
zx spectrum game so far. Granted
I have not made it through the group of 1983
zx spectrum games. I was thinking wait until
I get through all the 1983 games on the website
I play the zx spectrum games on and then list
my top five or ten
zx spectrum games so far but, I could not
wait. Its so fun to play video games I have
not played before. I never know what game
I am going to play next. I guess that is the
way you would say it. The zx
spectrum has some great games that is for
sure. I can't believe I had never heard of
the console before. I was missing out. There
is more to the console world than nintendo,
sega, sony, microsoft. At least
now I know about the zx spectrum. The little
ship that I controlled in thrusta is adorable.
At least I think its a space ship. It could
be some other type of vehicle. So cool. By
playing all these different
video games at least I am getting ideas about
what type of video game I can make if I ever
get around to making a video game. I am still
reading program arcade games with python and
pygame. I am on chapter
8. Its about functions. I can't wait to finish
the book. I have tried to read it several
times before but, never made it to the end.
As a matter of fact I don't know how far I
got through it. All I know is
that I read it for awhile and then I quit.
Which does not make sense to me now. If it
were a paperback or hardcover book I would
have finished it but, because its on a website
I gave up and went onto
something else. Bye.
