Microsoft brings 18-year-old game 'Hover' to browser

Let&#x27;s complete the effect shall we?<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kemivUKb4f4</a><p>Dial it down to 240p for the true &#x27;95 experience.

This is the best thing MS has done in years. I was just trying to remember what this game was called, and now it&#x27;s on the web, and plays great.<p>Now they just need to release web versions of Age of Empires, Age of Empires 2, and maybe do a new version of Combat Flight Simulator...

Competition does wonders. MS didn&#x27;t manage to sabotage WebGL and had to implement it in their browser. I wish they&#x27;d start enabling OpenGL across all their platforms as well.

This runs much smoother than I ever got it to run on my 166mhz Pentium!

Official press release with amusing promo video: <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2013/10/02/hover-bringing-a-classic-pc-game-to-the-web-with-internet-explorer-and-modern-web-standards.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.windows.com&#x2F;ie&#x2F;b&#x2F;ie&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;02&#x2F;hover-br...</a>

You can type &#x27;Bambi&#x27; on the front page for an even more retro version.

I think they might need to work on their collision detection. When going up the staircase I suddenly found myself <i>beneath</i> the staircase, unable to escape.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/EUYwin7.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;EUYwin7.png</a>

&gt; You&#x27;ll need a browser that supports WebGL to play Hover.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure Chrome supports WebGL.

You can still download the original version from Microsoft&#x27;s public FTP server:<p>ftp:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.microsoft.com&#x2F;deskapps&#x2F;games&#x2F;public&#x2F;AAS&#x2F;Hover.EXE<p>Plays just fine on modern machines running Windows.

I broke it <a href="http://imgur.com/YrdFbLU" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;YrdFbLU</a>

This brings me back, but I was really hoping it would be another game I played in the 90s that was very similar except it was a flight sim where you could get off the ground. I&#x27;ve done google searches over the year to find it but have never been able to.<p>I am pretty sure the game was called &#x27;Chaos&#x27;. The aesthetic was very angular; I believe the main craft you steered was a yellow triangular shape. I loved it. Anyone know it?

Within 10 seconds of loading it up, I had already glitched into a wall and trapped myself in a box. Yep, that&#x27;s nostalgia.

Does anyone else know of a small game called Hover by Eric Undersander? I spent so many hours playing it. Too bad it&#x27;s closed source and not maintained; it&#x27;d be awesome on smartphones.

Did the original Hover used acceleration-based controls? I don&#x27;t remember that; I recall it being much easier to control...

I immediately flew out of the map after collecting some speed boost (I was just on a black infinite plane and the map floating above me). I guess the collision detection code needs to some refactor. I wasn&#x27;t able to get back on there. That&#x27;s when I closed the tab, after ~40 secs.<p>Awesome QA for a company of that size &amp; resources. Wtf.

The author is answering questions on reddit: <a href="https://pay.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1nl5nk/i_worked_with_microsoft_to_bring_hover_to_html5/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pay.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;gamedev&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1nl5nk&#x2F;i_worked_wi...</a>

I really like it but two remarks: -they changed the graphics (it&#x27;s no longer &quot;pixelated&quot;) -I think the physics are slightly different but maybe I don&#x27;t really remember

Since I first discovered Hover on my old win 95 disc, I&#x27;ve dreamed of a multiplayer mode. At last.

Works for me in Safari 6.1 on Lion<p>My MacBook is so old it doesn&#x27;t even have a GPU. NICE.

Tried to drive up a set of stairs; was promptly placed inside the geometry.

Somebody know the name of the song of the soundtrack?

What are the controls?? Where are the instructions??

What&#x27;s with the snarky title?

Funny how all these MS HTML5 websites can be visited only with MS latest browser... latest chrome on Windows, it asks me to download IE11 , i&#x27;ll pass... that&#x27;s not how you promote open standards , you make them work on all browsers... unless you dont care ...

Never heard of this game. Probably because I was playing Spectre VR on a Mac (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spectre_(video_game)</a>) around that time, which this is a total unabashed knockoff of. Can&#x27;t Microsoft NOT copy something for a change?