Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

jan_Sate 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The game's name reminds me of the Russian word for state/district/region. I was right. It's an intended pun. The game's title screen on the screenshot in the article has Russian on it.

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classichasclass 14 hours ago | parent [-]

(author) Yes, I couldn't resist the obvious. :)

edit. I should also point out that it's the same word in Ukrainian, for the record.

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necovek 12 hours ago | parent [-]

And Serbian, so I'd guess it's proto-Slavic word.

	▲	__patchbit__ 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My dictionary has 430 words beginning with ob. Would be nice to have the AI visualize all those words to their pre-zodiacal origin on a landscape wireframe diagram with popup points of interest and water surface tension effects showing affinity and uses among various cultures.

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eddywebs 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Its good to see new games for old systems. I hope this trend continues .

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imbusy111 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Makes me want to make a modern version of this for Android.

	▲	classichasclass 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		(author) At one time I thought of doing a PalmOS port, and even did a little code to draw the tank, but never got farther than that. I'm not even sure where that went.

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ekjhgkejhgk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bomberman.