Joust for the Apple II

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Published on April 15, 2011 3:57:07 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGt5wtirsCw

Game:

Joust (1982)

Duration: 4:04

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Came also out for:

Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari 8-bit
Atari ST
Lynx
Macintosh
NES
PC Booter
Xbox 360


Game description:

In Joust, players take control of a knight with a lance who rides their flying ostrich (or stork, for Player 2) to do battle against computer-controlled evil knights who ride atop vultures.

Players must flap their steed's wings to hit the enemy from a higher jousting point to destroy the vulture and its rider. Once the enemy has been hit, an egg falls to one of the platforms below. The heroic knights must destroy the eggs before they hatch and release new and increasingly more difficult knights. The three strengths of enemy knights are Bounder (red knight), Hunter (white knight), and Shadow Lord (blue knight). These enemy knights are not the only challenge to be found in the game. Players must also contend with crumbling platforms, lava trolls who attempt to pull knights into the fire, and the dreaded "unbeatable"(?) pterodactyl.

The game was novel for its time for being one of the few two-player simultaneous games in the arcade.


What I think:

Okay, before ANYONE gets my rating wrong, let me say that I REALLY like Joust...just not this version.

The Apple II version suffers from framerate drops (the more enemies, the worse the framerate) and flickering sometimes.

Well, other than that, it is not a bad game...just not the best port...