I've been happily thrashing around the aerial arenas of Kobayashi Maru for more than a week now, with no sign of losing interest. It also allows for the ability to blast them from the sky so they can free-fall to the player's craft, allowing speedier acquisition of bonus points- shooting civilians and efficient time management have never been such a happy couple! This means hitting them accidently all the more heart rending because there's still a chance to - oh, too late.
Mac OS X, Windows Tempest 2000 is an open source Atari Jaguar emulator. A particularly deft touch is the fact that the ballooners, who can be picked up for bonus points, when shot fall from the sky but can still be rescued. Read More GamePark GP2X, Mac OS X, Source Code, Windows Virtual Jaguar is an. Virtual Jaguar is a highly portable and a extremely capable Atari Jaguar emulator, it is regarded as one of the best Atari Jaguar emulators around and is. Gameplay is paced well, with levels short enough to make getting back to that last bit where you Game Overed not a chore. The visuals are the right side of cartoony with some nice graphical flourishes, like the player's death animation which sees their space fighter swell upwards towards the player's viewpoint, getting blockier as it does so in a mode 7 fashion. The background clouds float about convincingly, adding to the general feeling of being in a swirling, high altitude dogfight. Making use of an early build of the Raptor engine the team are working on, the game sees the player's fuji-shaped spaceship zipping between trickily designed waves of enemies, rescuing (or accidentally shooting down) innocents flying with balloons, and facing off with quirky, well designed bosses. RetroArch is available across a number of platforms including Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and many consoles.
RetroArch is a front end that utilises emulator ‘cores’, it is reasonably easy to use and has lots of good supporting documentation on how to use it. Kobayashi Maru (which thankfully doesn't have a similar difficulty level to the Kobayashi Maru scenario of Star Trek lore) is a top notch top-down shooter. RetroArch emulates a large number of systems including the Atari 7800.
Happily enough the dedicated Atarians at Reboot have produced a cracking game with brilliantly paced gameplay, backed up with suitably arcadey visuals.