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  • Tell me about YOOMP

    From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 21 09:26:07 2024
    I just rediscovered YOOMP, a fun little polish game from 2008 for the
    and now hold your seat Atari XL line of computers.
    Just played it yesterday again, it really is fun, it is a hybrid of
    3d action platform and rhythm game with a mild techno music score.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4Yrk6v96c

    Played it an hour yesterday, after having to figure out for 30 minutes
    on how to start it on the mister.

    Fun fact btw. it is one of the titles integrated in the Atari 400 mini
    computer just released!

    You can download it legally here: https://yoomp.atari.pl/


    Werner

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 22 07:05:57 2024
    Am 21.04.24 um 16:49 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
    Definitely not my thing. While I can admire the game from a technical standpoint - getting it to run on a 6502 is impressive! - I find that
    style of game just too repetitive for my liking. I've always needed
    narrative and purpose beyond getting a high score to keep my interest.
    And - nice as the soundtrack is - the lack of variety in music would
    drive me mad in short order. Just listening to it for five minutes on
    the video and I'm tired of it already. I can't imagine playing an
    entire game listening to that same track repeating endlessly...
    Actually it is a game fallen out of time, it would have made huge waves
    in the 1980s! Sure no story and short gameplay, but you do not play it
    longer than 15-20 minutes anyway! Arcade style games have this tendency!

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 22 21:42:56 2024
    Am 22.04.24 um 17:01 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
    The appeal of games like YOOMP is sometimes as hard for me to
    understand as why some people like 'walking sims' is to arcade fans. I
    get that people enjoy that thing and - intellectually - can even
    understand why, but it still seems a very weird way of spending one's
    time. 😉
    The appeal is a 5-10 minutes game "flash", you jump into a game have a
    short period of time fun and then jump out.
    Thats also the reason why I still play pacman on and off every few months!

    YOOMP itself is a technical marvel given the system it runs on, sure it
    does not look impressive from a modern perspective but if you look at
    the system it runs on which came out basically in 1979 then it is even
    more impressive what those polish guys did with it. I would rate it as
    high in my top list of the Atari 8 bit computers as I would rate
    Alternate Reality the city, technology wise for that system, it is at
    the top of what is possible on it!

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Werner P. on Mon Apr 22 14:20:20 2024
    On 4/21/2024 12:26 AM, Werner P. wrote:
    I just rediscovered YOOMP, a fun little polish game from 2008 for the
    and now hold your seat Atari XL line of computers.
    Just played it yesterday again, it really is fun, it is a hybrid of
    3d action platform and rhythm game with a mild techno music score.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4Yrk6v96c

    Played it an hour yesterday, after having to figure out for 30 minutes
    on how to start it on the mister.

    Fun fact btw. it is one of the titles integrated in the Atari 400 mini computer just released!

    You can download it legally here: https://yoomp.atari.pl/


    I'm not entirely sure what the parameters of a game being a YOUMP would
    be for me to tell you about.

    --
    -Justisaur

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 22 15:58:44 2024
    YOOMP itself is a technical marvel given the system it runs on,

    I watched the vid, looks like a fun game :)

    rms

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 23 15:46:18 2024
    Am 22.04.24 um 23:20 schrieb Justisaur:
    I'm not entirely sure what the parameters of a game being a YOUMP would
    be for me to tell you about.
    Fun?....
    I also could tell you about Loom, but that would be for a different
    usenet group...

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 23 15:49:42 2024
    Am 23.04.24 um 15:46 schrieb Werner P.:
    Am 22.04.24 um 23:20 schrieb Justisaur:
    I'm not entirely sure what the parameters of a game being a YOUMP
    would be for me to tell you about.
    Fun?....
    I also could tell you about Loom, but that would be for a different
    usenet group...

    On the other hand, tell me about "Loom":

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7IC447S4ME

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 24 12:42:24 2024
    Am 23.04.24 um 19:53 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
    On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:46:18 +0200, "Werner P." <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:

    Am 22.04.24 um 23:20 schrieb Justisaur:
    I'm not entirely sure what the parameters of a game being a YOUMP would
    be for me to tell you about.
    Fun?....

    I also could tell you about Loom, but that would be for a different
    usenet group...

    <Captain America>
    I understood that reference.
    </Captain America>

    I wonder how many people purchased Loom because of that NPC.

    (Not me, though. I played "Loom" before I got to "Monkey Island")




    The tell me about Loom in the newest Monkey Island game is hilarious,
    link posted on another message in this thread!

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