Jeff Minter Gridrunner Demo

[Daniel Thomas]

I just visited the website of Llamasoft and Jeff Minter, and I discovered that he has a game for download. It's a Windows update of his early '80s game Gridrunner, punched up with those crazy, tripped-out graphics that are Yak's hallmark style.

For those who forgot, Gridrunner was basically Jeff Minter's answer to Centipede. It was originally written for the Vic-20, then the Commodore 64 and Atari 800.

The Gridrunner+ download is available at Llamasoft's website:


http://smokey.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/~llama/frameset.htm


UPDATE: Ah, it seems this demo was released in 2002, so I'm sure this is old news to y'all. Was the full version ever released, or no? Whatever became of this? The Llamasoft site doesn't say so, but it still has an active message board.

[Ed Oscuro]

I remember playing a Llamatron PC demo years back...never did get what it was about at the time LOL

Anyhow, looks good. I've downloaded the demo, I'll have to try it out soon. Thanks!

[SegaAges]

I guess the full version is out now. it is called gridrunner++.

i think i will have to go get it

[Mayhem]

Oh yeah the finished game was released for sale, just no links sadly on site. You can still find where to pay if you look hard enough. If you look even harder you might even find a link to download the improved GR++ Turbo Edition (jokingly titled Arse on Fire) for free...

[tededfred]

this should work for the full one:

https://gbp.swreg.org/cgi-bin/b.cgi?s=50096&p=50096LLA200&v=0&d=0&q=1&t=Moo!

I had to rebuy it recently since I forgot to backup to a cdr before a reformat.

[Daniel Thomas]

Good news! Gridrunner++ Arse on Fire is availble for free download.

Jeff Minter posted this on the yakyak message boards recently, so I wanted to pass it along.

The "Arse on Fire" edition is, true to Jeff Minter, wierder and goofier. What's new? Swearing. Lots and lots of drunk Welsh swearing. It's pretty damn funny.

Oh, and this is the full game, not a demo. Gameplay is tweaked here and there for a harder challenge. This is a great game, reminds me a lot of Tempest 2K.

Here's a link to the message board where you can download Arse on Fire:

Gridrunner ++ Arse on Fire (http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=24136&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0)