198 · Cobra Triangle
Cobra Triangle is a single-player boat-racing game that lets you do more than race. It borrows the power-up system from the shoot 'em up genre but keeps the emphasis more on maneuvering than shooting.
SHOW NOTES
Cobra Triangle Longplay
R.C Pro AM Episode
Diddy Kong Racing
Rare Replay
Xbox Game Pass
Show notes
- Speed and Skill are all that can save you
- NES Longplay
- Introductions
- Bermuda Triangle
- Overview
- Cobra Triangle is a racing, vehicular combat video game. The player races a cannon-equipped speedboat against other watercraft. The 25 stages of graduated difficulty vary in objectives: winning races, saving swimmers, and defusing bombs.
- Gameplay
- Cobra Class Speedboat
- Controls
- First time we’re dealing with a boat.
- How do you want a boat to control?
- There’s a mixture of momentum and start/stop
- A bit of all or nothing
- Power-Ups
- Gradius Style
- Increase speed/add missles and force field
- Bread and butter of the game.
- Should be more available or reworked based on a % completion of the previous level
- Controls
- Different objectives
- Racing (not really against other boaters, but against time)
- Capture/Save
- Collect the pods
- Survive the obstacles (counting the waterfall stage here too)
- Break the Targets
- Boss Fights
- Kind of like a shmup, but I think they could’ve embraced it even more.
- The objectives do get harder the 2nd and 3rd time around
- Diddy Kong Racing
- Cobra Class Speedboat
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- Rare Replay (Xbox Game Pass)
- EGL
- The boat and the precision keep this out for me
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