Dark Cavern - A Look at a Classic Atari 2600 Game

Dark cavern is a video game that positions you in thethe robots seem to become less stupid, and they are
maze filled with shooting robots, blobs, and crawlingthen able to shoot in many directions, they are able to
spiders. The game has two kinds of robots. Therotate their heads and they become a real threat. At
"normal" robots will creep up on you from behind, andthis point your best strategy would be to stay behind
the "two headed" robots who will always see whenthem or to shoot and then run for cover.
you are coming. The intensity of the game is said toAlthough your bullets are limited, you will occasionally
be amount the highest of any of the 2600 mazesee a gun appear in the maze and it will provide you
game.with more bullets, but only if you can grab it in time.
In the game, the robots are able to continue shooting,During the game, the spiders try to paralyze you while
even after they have been shot, and this will requirethe wavy blobs will try to steal you bullets, but since
that their opponents use a technique of shooting atthese two creatures do not carry points, and move
them and then quickly ducking for cover. Still yetvery slowly, it is best to ignore them whenever you
another feature of the game is the fact that a playcan.
can use up all his bullets but is able to renew his supplyAs with many similar maze games, in dark cavern the
by grabbing gun icons when they periodically appear.player continues moving until he collides with a wall. It
The spiders in the game will try to paralyze you, whilemay be difficult to do that if the player has to shoot
the blobs will take away your ammunition, so a player'sand duck to avoid being shot. As with other games,
only strategy would be to shoot everything in his sight.death will happen if the player becomes trapped in a
The animation of the dark cavern game is quitecorner and finds himself surrounded by the enemy on
smooth, and the graphics are plain.all sides. This happens also in dark cavern.
The challenge of the game is reduced somewhat byThe maze of the game never changes so it may
the fact that it provides a generous supply of lives.sometimes appear that no progress is being made in
First you will start off with five lives, and then you willthe game.
get more pretty regularly as the games proceeds.Dark cavern is based on the simplest ideas among
The robots appear to be quite stupid and simple, at thevideo games - the concept of the maze game. There
start of the game. Their movement is slow and theyare tricks that can be learned to achieve a score of
will only shoot directly in front of them. However thatmore than 200,000 points. To try to figure how would
changes when the score get to about25, 000. Thenadd interest to the game.