Rebel Assault 2 turns 30today so I dove back into the first new live-action Star Wars production since Return of the Jedi.
Was it good? Maybe. Was it important? Absolutely.
Rebel Assault 2 turns 30today so I dove back into the first new live-action Star Wars production since Return of the Jedi.
Was it good? Maybe. Was it important? Absolutely.
@schenklklopfer #RebelAssault toppte das noch ein wenig. π
Thai broadcaster NBT, in a post on X social media, said resistance forces used 40-mm machine guns and dropped 20 bombs from #drones to target an estimated 200 #junta soldiers who had retreated from a coordinated #RebelAssault on #Myawaddy and army posts since April 5. #Thailand #MyanmarCrisis
Fighting flares at #Myanmar-Thai border as rebels target stranded junta troops
https://cyprus-mail.com/?p=777861
Fighting raged at Myanmar's eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday, witnesses and Thailand's government said, forcing nearly 1,700 civilians to flee as rebels pressed to flush out junta troops holed up for days at a bridge border crossing. Resistance fighters and ethnic minority rebels seized the key trading town of Myawaddy onβ¦
I remember using a Flightstick Pro for the family Mac Performa in the mid 1990s. My dad had the Chuck Yeager flight simulator (which was pretty cool at the time), and that was the game he had gotten the stick for.
But I mostly used it for REBEL ASSAULT. π
#RetroGaming #90s #90sGames #MacPerforma #ChuckYeager #1990s #FlightSimulator #StarWars #RebelAssault
One reason sprites in #TheDIG were redesigned before release was so they'd have proper proportions with square pixels.
#LucasArts apparently had plans to release a Windows version with graphical filtering. This would probably have raised the resolution from 320x200 to 640x400, without any aspect-ratio correction, as with a similar option in #RebelAssault II.
Notice the moon in the intro is perfectly round with square pixels, but overly-stretched with aspect ratio correction. #adventuregames
Why you should play #RebelAssaultII: it's just about the only rail shooter that lets you do this crazy stuff with cheat codes.
You can even *turn off the gameplay* and watch the entire game as a movie.
Find the cheat codes here on the Wayback Machine's archive of #LucasArts' official site:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970401115648/http://www.lucasarts.com/static/reb2/reb_eggs.htm
#StarWars #RebelAssault II is available on Steam & GOG.