coogie wrote:Conan had to be one of my favorite games back in the day! and yes we did finish it and got the cool finish screen
Yes, finishing screens were an incentive. One of the TRS-80/System-80 games I enjoyed playing was
Penetrator. The mission was to fly deep into enemy territory and, at the end, drop a single missile down a very narrow vent to blow up the whole complex (a la Star Wars). You only had one chance at this. It took a long time and a lot of screens to get to that vent. You had to fly through and over lots of obstacles most of which would shoot at you.
After weeks if not months of trying I finally got to that final screen and managed to slam dunk the missile in the narrow opening of the vent. I was then treated to a sound and light show as the whole complex blew up. (Well, as much of a sound and light show as was capable on a System 80
)
Anyway, point is it was quite a thrill to see it and know the mission had been accomplished!
If I remember righly, you then had to go through it all again to find your way OUT of the complex!