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Parachute

Parachute

Language:

English

Genre:

Classic

Year:

2001

Publisher:

Jam Productions

Rating:

Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online

The main point of this game is to move your boat to catch falling people on parachutes, otherwise they will get eaten by sharks. Very simple and repetitive indeed, a throwback to Atari-style gaming where gameplay was doing the same thing over and over again to get lots and lots of points.

Should be good for a 5-minute time killer, don't expect too much excitement, but nonetheless a well-made game.

Download Parachute - pchute.zip

Comments

Jamestuk
May 01st 2006

thats an uber post, which intimidates me, but yeah i pretty much agree with the description that this is a 5 minute time filler for when you need to go out in say 5 mins, whereas a normal game might take that long to load, this just loads and you can play a couple of games before going out.

its quite addictive though for a while trying to beat your last score. gets boring though.

Janice
July 30th 2005

Description:
Parachute is a good clone of the original Nintendo Game & Watch handheld, one of those early handheld games. It retains most of the difficult game playability. Those who used to own such a handheld would love this. They would appreciate such a classic game. The modern gamer would probably use it as something to pass the time during a short break.

The objective of the game is to move a boat right, left and center to catch parachuters who are falling from the helicopter. For every man caught, you get 1 point. If you fail to catch a man, he gets eaten by the shark and you get a miss. You can only afford 3 misses, if you miss the fourth time, the game ends.

I am not sure whether this PC clone has cloned the original function of clearing all misses after every certain number of points such as 300 points. It has been a long time since I have played this game so I have lost touch of the skill to achieve that score unless I practice. Practice makes perfect and you will understand the timing movement better.

The Easy Mode is Game A is in the original while Hard Mode is Game B in the original. In the Easy Mode, the game starts off slow for players to get use to it and learn to time their catch. Some may find this early stage boring. However, as the game progresses, more parachuters will fall at the same time and the speed will get faster and faster. After 50 points, the game gets a little faster, 2 to 3 parachuters will fall at the same time. In addition, some parachuters will get stuck on the left tree, swing for a while before dropping. The game will slow down after 100 points and speed up after the next 50 points and the speed cycle will repeat itself. The gameplay variation of parachuters dropping will be the same for every 200 to 300 points. Those who find the Easy Mode slow should try the Hard Mode. In the Hard Mode, the game starts straight away at a fast speed with many parachuters falling and some swinging on the tree. It gets even hard when the game speed up.

The fun of this game is achieve as high a score as possible and beat your previous high score. If you find the game boring and repetitive, try the ultimate challenge of getting 999 in the hard mode and tell me if you still find the game boring. After the score exceeds 999, it will be reset to zero.

Game Tips:
The trick of catching the parachuters is to observe them as they fall. Then you will be able to know who will fall first in order to catch them in the right order. As for the parachuters stuck on the tree, count the number of swings he does before falling.

Technical Aspect:
This dos game is able to run fine on different windows platforms including Windows XP. It does not need any dos emulators. However, when I running this game on Windows XP, I could not get the game to quit by pressing �Q�. On the other hand, pressing �ESC� will quit the game.

Sound & Graphics:
The game has simple graphics as seen from the screenshot. The coloured background of trees and river is fixed. The only objects appears to be moving are black such as the rotating helicopter, parachuters, your rowboat, the shark, the score and number of misses. The graphics are acceptable because you will to understand that the original game was on an LCD handheld in the early days and this PC clone is fairly close to the original.

The sound has higher tone bleeps coming from the PC internal speaker. This game sounds slightly nicer than the original but you may not get use to it if you used to play the original.

Conclusion:
Try this game only if you love old classic games.

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