Turboflex


Turboflex was a real early game on the Atari written in Atari Basic (not many of my games were written in such stuff). It's significant only in that it is an implementation of an idea that I had been kicking around right since the Commodore PET days, and which has manifested as Deflex on the ZX81, Super Deflex on the Speccy (probably the most involved implementation of the idea, and with a larege llama, to boot), Turboflex on the Atari and the subgame 'MIF' (which stands for Made In France, coz it was) on Iridis Alpha.

The idea is really simple - deflect a ball using angled barriers that flip each time they are hit, aiming to hit some target. Takes almost zero code, and is fun in a minimal kind of a way.