ArcadePerfect
Joust
Ostrich combat at its finest
Williams Electronics1982Action, Arcade
Emulator
MAME
Quality
Perfect
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Bring Your Own ROM
The Story
You joust on an ostrich. Your opponents ride buzzards. Victory goes to whoever's lance is highest at the moment of impact. Joust's physics are genuinely unusual — altitude and horizontal momentum interact in ways that feel strange until they suddenly feel intuitive, and then feel like a language. Two-player cooperative mode was a revelation in 1982: two players on screen simultaneously, trying to work together, accidentally killing each other constantly.
Tags
2-playerco-opclassic