Time Flies
The crew down the street at Mad Otter recently acquired the rights to the classic Red Baron games and posted a $1,500 dollar bounty for the original C or C++ source code.
Seems fitting since Chief Executive Otter Damon Syle was a co founder Dynamix, the original developer.
Here’s a pic from one of my projects to commemorate the occasion.
Red Baron brings back some great memories, but I’m talking way back.
I remember being obsessed with the original Red Baron, a vector graphic stand up arcade game from 1979 or 80, I’m dating myself now aren’t I?
For one sweltering hot Virgina summer I would save up my quarters and run across the neighborhood to the “Tiny Giant” convenience store every chance I could get and battle zeppelins and biplanes in the clear blue sky of the green vector world that was Red Baron. …That was before the intertubes took over the world.
Crazy how times flies, and the twist and turns life takes isn’t it?
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When I first met Damon, I mentioned that I was obsessed with Stellar 7 on the Apple II when I was a kid. He asked where I got it. “I, uh… must have [*shuffle*], uh… pirated it. BUT, but I was only 12 – I didn’t have any money!”
A Battle Zone-like vector graphic game for the Apple II! I spent many hours trying to defeat that flying bird-of-prey thingy.
Good times.
Ah’ the good old days. :O)