Talk:Dropzone

Clarify
"MacLean purchased one of the first Atari 800's to be imported into the UK and started writing the game."

This strongly suggests that he started on Dropzone shortly after acquiring that Atari 800.

The Atari 800 came out in 1979, and its successor, the 800XL came out in 1983. Even allowing for delays in import and time taken to write the game, it's unlikely that he would have taken around 5 years to write the game.

Perhaps they meant that MacLean owned one of the first Atari 800s to come in to the UK, and at some (much) later point started writing Dropzone, not immediately afterwards? Ubcule (talk) 00:08, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * The interview referenced is pretty clear on the issue "In 1981 I got hold of an Atari 800, a "Star Raiders" cartridge, and a joystick. I remember being absolutely hooked on this for weeks at a time. No one had seen anything like it before, as we had all been spoon-fed black and white "Pong" and "Tank" style games up until that point. People would drive miles to come and have a look and play with it. I think I broke two or three joysticks and a couple of chairs ridding the universe of enemy star fighters! ... After getting my degree with the minimum amount of work--too much game programming, aided by copious liquid inspiration--I eventually decided to try and produce a game which at least equaled the quality, speed and gameplay of the arcade games of the time. So I took inspiration from "Scramble," "Defender," "Stargate," "Galaxian" and many others and went for it. It took me about six months to come up with something looking so good it could be an arcade cabinet"


 * SHOlafsson (talk) 23:51, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Dropzone by Sparkypants and Gameforge
There is a new game ( http://playdropzone.com/ ) with the same name as this game but is unaffiliated. There was already some content (the statue) that is for the new game that was posted on here, and was removed. If you are considering posting content about the new game Dropzone by Sparkpants and Gameforge, know that this page is definitely not the right page and there is currently (as of this posting) no page for that Dropzone. Since it is still in closed beta, it is unclear if it even warrants its own page yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wraithan (talk • contribs) 21:10, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Source

 * https://archive.org/details/edgeuk170/page/n81