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River Raider
River Raider is a fresh remake of an old action game that brought you much pleasure a long time ago.
- Publisher: TameStorm Games
- Home page:www.tamestorm.com
- Last updated: July 2nd, 2018
River Raider II
River Raider II Demo 1.6 is a 3D shooter in which we must travel along a river and destroy all the enemy forces. There are enemy ships, planes and helicopters taking the river. We must try to destroy them using two different airplanes or a helicopter. We must be very careful not to run out of fuel.
- Publisher: TameStorm Games
- Home page:www.tamestorm.com
- Last updated: March 2nd, 2008
River Raider Retaliation
Tamestorm presents a new game from River Raid series.In this version we tried to consider our fans' feedback to improve the game and make it even more exciting arcade.As usual, the game goal is to shatter economy of aggressor by blasting the bridges and destroying the enemy forces that oppose you.
- Publisher: TameStorm Games
- Home page:www.tamestorm.com
- Last updated: May 26th, 2011
Wall Street Raider
A highly sophisticated financial / stock market game and simulation in which you trade, invest and finagle in simulated 'live' environment. NOW INCLUDES FUTURES AND OPTIONS TRADING, interest rate swaps (derivatives) and trading of ETF's.
- Publisher: Ronin Software
- Home page:www.wallstreetraider.com
- Last updated: April 12th, 2021
Spring River Screensaver
Spring River Screensaver brings the magic of the beginning of spring to your home.You will be able to watch how a river starts flowing through a snow-covered forest with beautiful trees that will soon get rid of their white cover.You can feel the peace that surrounds the scene.It seems like Nature itself is celebrating the end of the cold season and the beginning of the warm days.
- Publisher: SaversPlanet
- Home page:www.saversplanet.com
- Last updated: March 29th, 2008
Orchidia
Your mission: save Orchidia and stop Orchus from getting free by matching flowers and winning charms to unblock the river and restore Orchidia's magic.
- Publisher: BigfishGames
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River In The Woods Screensaver
River In The Woods Screensaver is a nice screensaver that shows the image of a river in the middle of a wood. There is a crystalline water flowing gently in the river in a lovely landscape surrounded by pine trees and bushes. The screensaver includes realistic sounds of birds and insects, which create a more relaxing and enjoyable atmosphere.
- Publisher: MMedia Portal
- Last updated: December 7th, 2010
Rocky River Screensaver
Rocky River Screensaver is a nice screensaver that shows a cartoonish image of a river. The scene shows water flowing in a river that is surrounded by huge rocks at dawn or dusk. The only thing that is animated is the water, which presents a peaceful and tranquil movement that causes a relaxing effect.
- Publisher: Freesavers2k.com
- Last updated: January 20th, 2011
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
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Tomb Raider: Anniversary retraces Lara Croft's original genre-defining adventure globe-trotting 3rd person action-adventure in pursuit of the legendary Scion artifact. Re-imagined, Anniversary delivers a dynamic fluidly and fast Lara Croft, massive environments of stunning visuals, intense combat and game pacing, and an enhanced and clarified original story.
- Publisher: Crystal Dynamics , Feral Interactive
- Home page:store.steampowered.com
- Last updated: February 26th, 2009
Milky Bear Riches Raider 2
Milky Bears adventure continues. Your task will to grab all bonuses that can help him survive. These include bombs can blow through walls and cages that can trap enemies before they reach our intrepid hero. You'll need these to be able to gather all of the gems on each level and open the portal to the next stage.
- Publisher: aliasworlds.
- Last updated: March 7th, 2012
River-Simulator
River Simulator 2012 waterway transports is a fun and entertaining simulation game. You can get behind the helm of seven different inland waterway crafts and other vessels such as container ships or ferry boats and tackle different missions. You can also travel downstream the river Rhine from Frankfurt am Main via Mainz until you reach the Dutch border.
- Publisher: weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbH
- Last updated: December 14th, 2012
River Past Wave@MP3
River Past Wave@MP3 is a simple and FREE software which converts between MP3 audio and WAV file.
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River Past Audio Converter Pro is a powerful program that lets you convert songs and video files to a wide range of audio formats. Its intuitive interface was designed to meet the needs of all types of users, beginners and professionals, while providing high-quality results with little effort.
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness
The Angel Of Darkness is the sixth installment of the game Tomb Raider. The game was released for PlayStation 2 and PC. Tomb Raider has always been a puzzle game, and if you like puzzles with nice graphics and a decent story, this is a top-of-the-line game. The graphics, as well as the environments, are excellent and Lara looks better than ever before.
- Publisher: Eidos Interactive
- Last updated: May 31st, 2008
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River Past Video Cleaner is River Past's award winning video converter software.Easy-to-use video converter software. Convert from 3GPP/3GPP2, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, DV, FLC/FLI animation, animated GIF, IVF, Matroska MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG-1, OGG Media OGM, RM/RAM and WMV to animate GIF, AVI, MOV, WMV, DivX, XviD, DV, MKV, OGM, MP4.
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River Past Video Cleaner Pro
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River Past Audio Converter
River Past Audio Converter is a audio converter and extractor. Convert from almost any audio format to WAV, MP3, WMA, or audio-only AVI. We support a variety of input formats, including the standard WAV, MP3, WMA, AIFF, RealAudio, and the not-so-standard OGG, AIFF, and Unix Audio.
- Publisher: River Past
- Last updated: April 6th, 2010
River Past Screen Recorder
River Past Screen Recorder is River Past's award winning screen video recorder.It is the fastest screen video recorder on the market, with a speed comparable to TechSmith's Camtesia Studio, and way better than any other similar software we have tested.
- Publisher: River Past Corporation
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| River Raid | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Activision |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Designer(s) | Carol Shaw |
| Programmer(s) | Carol Shaw |
| Platform(s) | Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Intellivision, MSX, IBM PCjr, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 |
| Release | Atari 2600Atari 8-bit, 5200, Intellivision 1983 C64, Spectrum 1984 |
| Genre(s) | Scrolling shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
River Raid is a vertically scrolling shooter designed and programmed by Carol Shaw and published by Activision in 1982 for the Atari 2600video game console.[2] Over a million game cartridges were sold.[3] Activision later ported the title to the Atari 5200, ColecoVision, and Intellivision consoles, as well as to the Commodore 64, IBM PCjr, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and Atari 8-bit family. Shaw did the Atari 8-bit and Atari 5200 ports herself.[3]
Activision published a less successful sequel in 1988 without Shaw's involvement.
Gameplay[edit]
River Raider 2
Viewed from a top-down perspective, the player flies a fighter jet over the River of No Return in a raid behind enemy lines. The player's jet can only move left and right—it cannot maneuver up and down the screen—but it can accelerate and decelerate. The player's jet crashes if it collides with the riverbank or an enemy craft, or if the jet runs out of fuel. Assuming fuel can be replenished, and if the player evades damage, gameplay is essentially unlimited.
The player scores points for shooting enemy tankers (30 points), helicopters (60 points), fuel depots (80 points), jets (100 points), and bridges (500 points). The jet refuels when it flies over a fuel depot. A bridge marks the end of a game level. Non-Atari 2600 ports of the game add hot air balloons that are worth 60 points when shot as well as tanks along the sides of the river that shoot at the player's jet.
Destroying bridges also serve as the game's checkpoints. If the player crashes the plane they will start their next jet at the last destroyed bridge.
Development[edit]
For its time, River Raid provided an inordinate amount of non-random, repeating terrain despite constrictive computer memory limits. For the Atari 2600 the game with its program code and graphics had to fit into a 4 KB ROM.[4] The game program does not actually store the sequence of terrain and other objects. Instead, a procedural generationalgorithm manifests them by employing a linear feedback shift register with a hard-coded starting value,[5] also called a pseudorandom number generator.[6] Because of this the algorithm generates the same game world every time the program executes.[7] The enemy crafts' AI relies on another pseudorandom number generator to make the start of the enemy movement less predictable as this pseudorandom number generator's starting value is not reset when a new game starts.[8]
Reception[edit]
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InfoWorld in 1983 stated that River Raid might be the best Atari 8-bit game of the year, 'more challenging than any VCS version' and superior to others like Caverns of Mars.[9]Antic in 1984 said that the Atari 8-bit version was identical to the 2600 original, but with slightly 'spiffed up ... game visuals'.[10] The Deseret News in 1984 called River Raid 'one of the most playable and entertaining of all war games'. The newspaper gave the ColecoVision version four stars, recommending it to all console owners and describing it as 'a definite winner all the way'.[11] The game received the award for '1984 Best Action Videogame'[12]:42 and a Certificate of Merit in the category of '1984 Best Computer Action Game' at the 5th annual Arkie Awards,[13]:28 where the judges described it as 'provid[ing] the brand of non-stop excitement the blast brigaders adore'.[12]:42
Computer and Video Games rated the Atari VCS and ColecoVision versions 92% in 1989.[14]
River Raid was the first video game to be banned for minors in West Germany by the Federal Department for Writings Harmful to Young Persons (German: Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften).[15]
Legacy[edit]
In 1996, Next Generation listed the Atari 2600 version as number 81 on their 'Top 100 Games of All Time', commenting that, 'Nostalgia aside, the 2600 sucks. ... But this game is still great, for one main reason: Level design.'[16]
Activision published the relatively obscure River Raid II for the Atari 2600 in 1988. This sequel, programmed by David Lubar based on a concept by Dan Kitchen,[17] has similar gameplay, but with a different landscape and increased difficulty. The Games Machine magazine reviewed River Raid 2 and gave it a 76% rating.[18]
In 1995 River Raid was published for Microsoft Windows as part of Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack.[19]
River Raider Offroad Snk-2301-2 Expedition Snorkel
References[edit]
- ^'River Raid (Registration Number PA0000188573)'. United States Copyright Office. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^Hague, James. 'The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers'.
- ^ abEdwards, Benj (October 12, 2011). 'VC&G Interview: Carol Shaw, Atari's First Female Video Game Developer'. Vintage Computing and Gaming.
- ^Edwards, Benj. 'VC&G Interview: Carol Shaw, Atari's First Female Video Game Developer'. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
It was only 4 kilobytes of ROM ...
- ^Aycock, John (2016). Retrogame Archeology: Exploring Old Computer Games (1st ed.). Springer. p. 130. ISBN978-3319300023.
One of River Raids LSFRs was eight-bit, with taps b4 and b7, and the other was a 16-bit LSFR that was used for PCG.
- ^Edwards, Benj. 'VC&G Interview: Carol Shaw, Atari's First Female Video Game Developer'. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
... I used a pseudorandom number generator ...
- ^Jentzsch, Thomas. 'River Raid'. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
current number generator values
- ^Jentzsch, Thomas. 'River Raid'. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
8 bit random number (used for: start of ship and helicopter, sound)
- ^Mace, Scott (1983-11-07). 'Electronic Antics'. InfoWorld. pp. 73–74. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^Duberman, David (January 1984). 'ROM Fun: Survey of recent cartridge games'. Antic. pp. 62–63.
- ^Holyoak, Craig (1984-05-30). 'Here are ColecoVision's jewels'. Deseret News. pp. 4 WV. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ^ abKunkel, Bill; Katz, Arnie (January 1984). 'Arcade Alley: The Arcade Awards, Part 1'. Video. Reese Communications. 7 (10): 40–42. ISSN0147-8907.
- ^Kunkel, Bill; Katz, Arnie (February 1984). 'Arcade Alley: The 1984 Arcade Awards, Part II'. Video. Reese Communications. 7 (11): 28–29. ISSN0147-8907.
- ^'Complete Games Guide'(PDF). Computer and Video Games (Complete Guide to Consoles): 46–77. 16 October 1989.
- ^Wolf, Mark J. P. (2012-01-01). Encyclopedia of Video Games: A-L. ABC-CLIO. ISBN9780313379369.
- ^'Top 100 Games of All Time'. Next Generation. No. 21. Imagine Media. September 1996. p. 43.
- ^Hague, James (1997). 'Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers'.
- ^'Atari 2600: River Raid 2'(PDF). The Games Machine. No. 19 (June 1989). 18 May 1989. p. 21.
- ^http://uk.ign.com/games/activisions-atari-2600-action-pack/pc-724812
River Raider 2 Game Play
External links[edit]
- River Raid for the Atari 2600 at Atari Mania
- River Raid for the Atari 8-bit family at Atari Mania
- River Raid at Lemon 64
- The Atari 2600 version ofRiver Raid can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive