Talk:Space Lords

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"Games usually had four screens each with separate controls for individual players."

The machines have two 25" monitors. Each monitor has controls for the pilot and gunner. Two cabinets can be linked via a cable for 8 player simultaneous gameplay (4 pilots, 4 gunners).

The throttle was a two way joystick, not a button. The thumb button on the throttle stick activates the rear view, not reverse. Pulling back on the throttle stick activates reverse.

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I did my best to describe the game accurately. It's a shame that there is no documentation on the game out there that gives the amount of detail I shot for. One thing, though. I cannot, for the life of me, remember the name of one of the races. They look just like the Troids, but are blue instead of orange and are tougher, too. As I recall, they appear 6th, between the Raptors and the Krystar. Granted, it's been about 15-20 years since I played Space Lords.

Oh, and I *will* own this game some day. Oh yes. It will be mine. :-)

Deejaye6 (talk) 03:14, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

p.s. - yes, I would put in just a credit for myself and another for a non-existent copilot and go through the entire game solo, starting with about 6 runs through the Vs. arena, and then all 15 missions, never dying once, and consistently get the "Space Lord" rank.
 * very nice, however; :-) LOL! Just kidding! --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 16:26, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Ohhh, if only I could have had a friend videotape it back then! :-)  A friend who was active on the Atari BBS back then posted a maneuver I invented and he named it after me.  I would fly just fast enough to stay out of the enemy guns' range, but slow enough that they would continue to pursue.  I would turn this way and that to get them to collect together in a small cloud of bad guys.  Then I would slam the ship into reverse (holding the rear-view button to see where I was going) and hit the Cloak and Hyperspace buttons to get the invisible boost.  As I passed through the cloud, I'd release the rear-view button (now watching them in front of me as I continue backwards) and nuke them, point-blank!  With the speed boost, I'd still be going back fast enough to avoid the blast, and the bad guys with Hyperspace could not react in time to avoid it.  OutRAGEous!!  :-D Deejaye6 (talk) 21:15, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

All Alien Races Added (with Attributes)
About three weeks ago or so, I added a table listing all eight alien races in Space Lords with the specific attributes associated with each. They are in order: Troid, Hydrus, Raptor, Octon, Noptera (my personal favorite since they were so difficult to hunt down), Naqar, Krystar, and Xyclops. I received a message thanking me for adding the table and to answer your question, no I do not own a Space Lords console. I simply remembered the characteristics from memory since I played it so often while at university.

Lomnoir (talk) 06:04, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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