Achieved at : 2025-03-30
Rank : 2
(world record)
Lups : 188
Approved :
Yes
Voting completed : 2025-04-06
| General Rules: |
Play with default settings unless otherwise specified. No use of trainers, cheats, saved game files, auto-fire (when not default present in-game), emulator save states, or other emulator advantages. No use of code modifications that give the player an advantage over other players. 1 player only. No continues. It is discouraged and may lead to voters not accepting your score to - excessively point farm - use glitches or other game exploits |
| Specific Rules: | There are two versions of this game. Both can be used as there are only slight differences, that doesn't involve gameplay itself. |
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Hou ze Gevangen is a Dutch game for the ZX81 with 16K RAM expansion. I am not sure where it comes from, but the program itself says Logical Computers and online the date is given as 1984. Whether this was a stand alone title, part of a compilation or released by a user group, I have no idea.
Like most ZX81 games, this one is quite simple. You have two laser towers to control, one on the left and one of the right. Each can fire a laser across its half of the screen, but no further. Some sort of bird attempts to take off from the ground and you have to shoot it with the correct tower, timing the firing just at the right moment as the bird passes. The game calls them planes (see full text below), but they flap and look like birds, so that is what I am calling them! If you miss ten birds, it is game over and the birds speed up as the game progresses and also fly at angles, so you will need to calculate which tower to fire from. If all the birds escape, a flock of them flies up the screen and it is game over.
A very simple reflex game, and only really of historical curiosity today. The game is written in BASIC, if you want to break into it and study it. I also translated the Dutch instructions into English:
"THE INTENT IS TO KEEP THE ENEMY AIRCRAFT IN YOUR BASE. IF THEY TRY TO ESCAPE YOU MUST TRY TO TAKE THEM DOWN WITH THE TWO LASER CANNONS. IF YOU MISS MORE THAN 10 TIMES YOUR BASE IS LOST AND ALL PLANES CAN ESCAPE. THE MORE PLANES YOU SHOOT DOWN THE FASTER THEY TAKE OFF."
This game was played on the 30th March 2025 using the Pantheon emulator on PC. There are no skill levels and the final score was 27 points.
Time stamps:
00:30 Title screen.
00:35 Game starts.
01:16 10 points reached. The birds are getting quite quick now.
01:40 20 points reached.
01:59 10th bird escapes and the rest also escape. Game Over! Final score 27 points.
Like most ZX81 games, this one is quite simple. You have two laser towers to control, one on the left and one of the right. Each can fire a laser across its half of the screen, but no further. Some sort of bird attempts to take off from the ground and you have to shoot it with the correct tower, timing the firing just at the right moment as the bird passes. The game calls them planes (see full text below), but they flap and look like birds, so that is what I am calling them! If you miss ten birds, it is game over and the birds speed up as the game progresses and also fly at angles, so you will need to calculate which tower to fire from. If all the birds escape, a flock of them flies up the screen and it is game over.
A very simple reflex game, and only really of historical curiosity today. The game is written in BASIC, if you want to break into it and study it. I also translated the Dutch instructions into English:
"THE INTENT IS TO KEEP THE ENEMY AIRCRAFT IN YOUR BASE. IF THEY TRY TO ESCAPE YOU MUST TRY TO TAKE THEM DOWN WITH THE TWO LASER CANNONS. IF YOU MISS MORE THAN 10 TIMES YOUR BASE IS LOST AND ALL PLANES CAN ESCAPE. THE MORE PLANES YOU SHOOT DOWN THE FASTER THEY TAKE OFF."
This game was played on the 30th March 2025 using the Pantheon emulator on PC. There are no skill levels and the final score was 27 points.
Time stamps:
00:30 Title screen.
00:35 Game starts.
01:16 10 points reached. The birds are getting quite quick now.
01:40 20 points reached.
01:59 10th bird escapes and the rest also escape. Game Over! Final score 27 points.