Sky Diver is an arcade video game designed by Owen Rubin, and released by Atari, Inc. in 1978. Its interface is a simple third-person view of a parachuting drop zone. Sky Diver is a two-player game, although one player can play. The object of Sky Diver is to jump out of a plane, release a parachute and land on the landing pad. To get higher points, the player must release the parachute closer to the ground. The player has nine jumps. If the landing pad is missed, the player loses points. The highest score possible is 99 points (11 points maximum per jump).
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A mediocre take on Moon Lander.
Well, it spells it out to you right in the title. It's a game where you skydive, and it is fun for a good minute before you want to stop playing. I'd rather go skydiving in real life, but then I would probably die out of fear, so I will probably wait on that.
Game #299
Game #299
Obviously most Atari games either don’t hold up well or need caveats in order to recommend them, but the biggest caveat is that a lot of them gain an extended shelf life if you play them with somebody else. I try to approach this dumb time wasting project of mine with one leg in the contemporary context and one leg in [extremely Serial Experiments Lain voice] haha present day haha present time [/voice] but even as an aging millennial I can’t see many people who decided to stay home instead of going out partying with our parents before they thought of giving up their dreams and having children just sitting down and tucking in to some pre-NES games instead of, I don't know, dropping acid and listening to prog rock while contemplating the oil shortage.
I think that formula changes when you play against someone else though. Even something a simple as Sky Diver, a 40 year old game where you throw yourself out of a plane and have to pull your chute at the last moment and hit a target without getting smashed on the ground in an amusing looking way, is a great option for when you have people over and an Atari 90-in-1 Plug In your grandma bought you from QVC because she knew you 'liked video games' and it said video game on the cover. The spirit of competition smooths out a lot of edges, and while Sky Diver is fun enough on its own, its more fun when you have other people to viciously mock for not judging the wind correctly in a game from 20 years before they were born.
I think that formula changes when you play against someone else though. Even something a simple as Sky Diver, a 40 year old game where you throw yourself out of a plane and have to pull your chute at the last moment and hit a target without getting smashed on the ground in an amusing looking way, is a great option for when you have people over and an Atari 90-in-1 Plug In your grandma bought you from QVC because she knew you 'liked video games' and it said video game on the cover. The spirit of competition smooths out a lot of edges, and while Sky Diver is fun enough on its own, its more fun when you have other people to viciously mock for not judging the wind correctly in a game from 20 years before they were born.