The Retro Timer 💾 on Nostr: Gottlieb's "Mad Planets" (1983) is fun, but likely more fun in the original cabinet, ...

Gottlieb's "Mad Planets" (1983) is fun, but likely more fun in the original cabinet, given its custom controls.

It expects a joystick to move the ship, and a dial to rotate it. Took me a while to settle on a gamepad mapping that felt halfway decent. 🎮

The sound is cool, and technically interesting. There are no audio samples and no FM synthesizer chip — it's all generated by code running in the secondary 6502 at less than 1 MHz.

1/2 🧵

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