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[_] [Friday Retro Fun] Cannon Fighter

Matt Kane ascorbic at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 10:59:25 BST 2008

On 6 Jun 2008, at 00:25, Richard Davey wrote:

> Just a small shout for a new game I released today:
> http://www.photonstorm.com/games/cannon-fighter
>
> It's a pixel perfect remake of an old 8-bit classic that I bet no-one
> has ever heard of :)
>
> Still, it was fun for me to code, and a nice trip down memory lane to
> boot. The link above includes my development notes, and more details
> can be found in-game.
>
> I released it to Kongregate for their free bandwidth, the comments
> from the kids there crack me up :)
>
> Cheers,


That's wicked. Bug report: if you lose your final life while one of  
your cannon balls is in the air, it freezes and remains in that spot  
for your next game. You can't then fire.