Adopt a Game

For this adopt a game activity I chose to play the game Sky Base

I usually do not like to play older arcade games in my free time although I do appreciate them and acknowledge their part in the beginnings of gaming as an industry. Sky Base is a fixed shooter Galaga-like game with very fast moving enemies and a small gun to start out with. The initial play-through was just figuring out the controls and how the game works. I immediately found out that a quick reaction time was key to surviving in this game.

It was pretty hard to progress very far in the game because of the difficulty and speed of the levels. I tried my best to progress as far as I could for about 15 minutes and only got to the third stage. Perhaps if I played more of these types of games I could easily get farther, but I lost interest after a short amount of time.

At the time, the original hardware was probably using most of it processing power to run this game. Now I play it through an emulator on a computer that has a thousand+ times the processing power of that machine.