The fun continues...from the game genius to the game genie...we bring you METEOR BATH, a mod to Bob's METEOR SHOWER (2011). Will you take a bath on this one? Probably not. I never played this game much but then came across the source list to find the hidden magic that I love to find. The game is chock full of hooks to change the game, so I just had to do it. The original blog is here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/182308-meteor-shower/ The manual is on page 8 of this blog.
Before, the boulders hit your ship and you die. Now, the boulders hit your ship and you don't die. Also, that really cool spinner UFO thingy dingy used to come down and hit the ground and BOOM you die. Now, the spinner UFO comes down and hits the ground and BOOM you DON'T die. Interesting effect, indeed. The game also offers a way to add more boulders but I haven't done that yet. The speeds can be increased, and I tried it, but it didn't really add much to the game. However, the background colors have been changed. I used bold red green and blue colors, although the black is my favorite. Black is the color that the game now transitions to at 100,000pts. The color changes at 200,000 and then again at 500,000. The game appears to progressively get faster until 1,000,000 points. For those who get there, the score rolls over at 1,000,000 points and then the gameplay is slower than snails on a dry day. It's funny to watch.
The original game appears to transition to upgraded difficulty at 20,000/50,000/100,000 points so the next thing I did was to change the original start points EASY=0pts, NORMAL=5,000pts, HARD=50,000pts to EASY=20,000pts, NORMAL=50,000pts, HARD=99,900pts. This immediately adds more interest to the game.
Another neat feature of this game is you lose points for everything that hits the ground. Accuracy counts! I'd like to change the game to add a feature that when you fire and miss the boulders you lose points as well. But not there yet. Also note, hit the joystick down and you can beam cross the screen much quicker. Also, two-player simultaneous is an option in this game. Truly great fun!!!
I made some obvious changes to the title screen graphics. What's interesting with this game is the bottom 16 lines are carried through to the game, so whatever you see in the title screen you see throughout the game. Interesting effect.
So here it is...
NTSC METEOR BATH, binary
MeteorBath_RC2_12122013_2944.bin 16KB
2 downloads
NTSC METEOR BATH, emulator
MeteorBath_RC2_12122013_16K.a78 16.13KB
3 downloads
To purchase the original METEOR SHOWER game, it's here:
http://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1008
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