Looping (video game)
Looping is a video game produced by Video Games GmbH, a German company, in 1982 and published by Venture Line, Inc.[1] "for U.S. manufacture and release" as an arcade game[2] and also released in 1983[3] for ColecoVision home video consoles.[4][5][6] It was developed by Giorgio Ugozoli in Parma, Italy.[2]
Looping is a side scrolling airplane shooter.[6][1] Gameplay is controlled with a joystick and action buttons which direct the player's avatar, a plane that looks like a glider, as it maneuvers through several environments such as a cityscape and a maze. One button controls speed, and the other fires bullets.[2] Using airplane controls (down is forward on the joystick, up is backward on the joystick),[7] the player maneuvers in loops (hence the name of the game) eventually "through a maze of pipes", firing bullets, opening gates, avoiding or blasting balloons, walls, and other objects.[8][1]
The arcade game is fitted with "a series of relatively rare Texas Instruments CPUs and a dedicated DAC (Digital To Analog Converter) sound chip".[2]
During the pipes section of the game (at least on the Colecovision version), Johann Sebastian Bach's Two-Part Invention No. 8, BWV 779 is played.[9]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Weiss, Brett (March 7, 2012), Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide, McFarland, p. 183, ISBN 9780786487554
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Looping (Video Games GmbH, 1982)". MAMEdev.org. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ↑ Radio-electronics, 54, Gernsback Publications, 1983, p. 74
- ↑ Standard Directory of Worldwide Marketing, National Register Publishing Company, Macmillan Directory Division, 1988, p. 21
- ↑ "Looping". MobyGames.com. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Video Game Critic (March 3, 2001). "Looping". videogamecritic.com. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ↑ "Looping Colecovision". ConsoleClassix.com. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ↑ "Looping instruction manual". ConsoleClassix.com. Coleco. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ↑ "Bach Two-Part Invention No. 8, BWV 779". YouTube. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
External links[edit]
- An Interview with the Developer of Looping at MAMEdev.org
- Looping gameplay at YouTube
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