Comments on: Hopped Up On Goofballs

By: James Lyon

James Lyon — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:29:41 +0000

Love this game. Love this review of it, too.

By: Andy Simpson

Andy Simpson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:53:58 +0000

I remember this one on RiscOS too… now I come to think about it, it really is the even-more-psychotic pre-cursor to something liKe Geometry Wars.

Just a lot harder.

By: bobince

bobince — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:39:47 +0000

Yeah, I can’t quite see how the 3D’s going to work either… although another RISC OS game, Magnetoids, did something interesting with the idea of 3D Asteroids.

Yay for McLeod!

By: Bob Arctor

Bob Arctor — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:09:36 +0000

It’s the only game to give me a bit of motion sickness, medium fade plus colour changing.

By: Rob'n

Rob'n — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:14:02 +0000

This isn’t one for the epileptics, I see.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:36:11 +0000

If you’re on Goofballs, you don’t really care.

By: raigan

raigan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:23:55 +0000

..I always thought it was hepped up on goofballs..

By: Duncan MacGregor

Duncan MacGregor — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:56:16 +0000

Ah the fond memories, the wasted hours (well days, or possibly months), it was great.

I do hope the new shiny one is as good.

By: ezequiel

ezequiel — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:49:09 +0000

guy, this thing really gives me some waves of nostalgia.
i used to talk via ICQ with the creator. really nice guy. he made the game after reading “developing games for dummies” or a similar-named book.
and he was a hardcore fan of disco music and was always researching new p2p programs.

nice guy.

By: Robert Seddon

Robert Seddon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:26:52 +0000

I remember reading about this in Acorn User years ago… Nice to see a game originating on RISC OS not languishing in hobbyist obscurity forever. (Compare Iron Dignity, which began as an ARM/RISC OS tech demo and ended up as the PC-only Stealth Combat but seems to have been largely overlooked.)

By: Glissando

Glissando — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:19:25 +0000

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.

And oxygen.

And water.

And food.

And sleep.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:12:53 +0000

I have no idea what a goofballs is but i like the sound of it.

Coincidentally I will add this to the list of time machine experiments.

No112: Visit an early Grateful Dead Kool Aid Acid Test and make them play Spheres of Chaos. Video Results.