The Lost Patrol, Amiga - Part 1 - Overlooked Oldies

[pacbilly]

Memorise spells, ha!

[JimPlaysGames]

@pacbilly yeah a "detect minefield" spell would be pretty good around here. Or at least "protection from communists".

[Trusteft]

Interesting to see how you approach the game. :)

btw, if your scout or leader or both are injured or very tired. Change them. :)

[JimPlaysGames]

@Trusteft I'm glad my epic failure was interesting :)

I was wondering how far you've managed to get in this game? Do you just need to save every 5 minutes to make any progress, or is there any way to effectively avoid things like minefields?

[Trusteft]

@JimPlaysGames I haven't finished the game, if that is what you are asking, but that is mostly because of other reasons than the game itself. (glitchy hardware, and other things) Too bad the version you have has these bugs, there are some nice graphics there you are missing, and gameplay of course. It's good to save often, but if you survive long enough, the problems comes from other things like lack of food, you need to scavenge for it and ammo a lot. Also, morale can be a killer for you...

[Trusteft]

@JimPlaysGames As for how far exactly, I don't remember, but iirc, about 4-5 grids from the final one.

[slenkar]

i was going to duhoc but I said phuket and changed my mind

[JimPlaysGames]

@slenkar so where did you end up? Lake Titicaca perhaps? :D

[slenkar]

@JimPlaysGames

yes lol that reminds me, my friend recently told me of his trip to the caribbean where he got his girlfriend to be more adventurous in bed,

To which I replied "jamaica?"

(ba boom)

[InsertDiskB]

Back then i played this game just to hear the music, was too young to care about what was going on with the traps, scouting, morale, food etc....

[JimPlaysGames]

@InsertDiskB yeah the music is pretty good. Makes up for the total lack of sound effects. There's a nice mellow remix of the music on the amigaremix site that's worth checking out.