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* CreatorThumbprint: The splash screen by John Calhoun shows the view past a woman with her back to the camera, as do his splash screens for ''GliderPro'' ''VideoGame/GliderPro'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Pararena}} Pararena 2]]''.
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'''''[=JauntTrooper=]''''' (previously known as '''''Mission: Thunderbolt''''' and '''''[=DoomsDay=] 2000''''') is a series of ScienceFiction {{Roguelike}}s set AfterTheEnd. Having nudged humanity into a devastating WorldWarIII so as to [[DivideAndConquer soften us up for conquest]], aliens now [[VichyEarth lord over the ruins of Earth]]. Hope for [[LaResistance the human resistance]] may lie in [[ElaborateUndergroundBase the abandoned R&D labs of MegaCorp International]], where prototypes of advanced technology are said to exist.
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The game he built along these lines was a hit among coworkers at DEC, spreading to the company's [[MainframesAndMinicomputers [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers Mainframes]] around the world. Having completed three episodes of a planned four or five, he started over, porting the series to [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}} for home users. However, neither {{Shareware}} releases nor a boxed version from Creator/CasadyAndGreene got much attention... [[AcclaimedFlop outside of lavish praise and awards from reviewers]]. In the end, the series was [[OrphanedSeries left unfinished]] on all three platforms.
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The game he built along these lines was a hit among coworkers at DEC, spreading to the company's [[MainframesAndMinicomputers Mainframes]] around the world. Having completed three episodes of a planned four or five, he started over, porting the series to [[IBMPersonalComputer [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}} for home users. However, neither {{Shareware}} releases nor a boxed version from Creator/CasadyAndGreene got much attention... [[AcclaimedFlop outside of lavish praise and awards from reviewers]]. In the end, the series was [[OrphanedSeries left unfinished]] on all three platforms.
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Author Dave Scheifler was disappointed by the {{Railroading}} endemic to [[TheEighties Eighties]] computer games. Instead of a prescribed solution to each obstacle--keys to open doors, weapons to kill monsters, a hazmat suit HazmatSuit to cross a waste spill--why shouldn't you be allowed to use the crowbar in your inventory to smash through a nearby wall? Or take the rubble from the wall and build a walkway through the waste pool? Or scoop toxic waste into a container and hurl it at an enemy?
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'''''[=JauntTrooper=]''''' (previously known as '''''Mission: Thunderbolt''''' and '''''[=DoomsDay=] 2000''''') is a series of ScienceFiction {{Roguelike}}s set AfterTheEnd. Having nudged humanity into a devastating WorldWarIII so as to [[DivideAndConquer soften us up for conquest]], aliens now [[VichyEarth lord over the ruins of Earth.Earth]]. Hope for [[LaResistance the human resistance]] may lie in [[ElaborateUndergroundBase the abandoned R&D labs of MegaCorp International]], where prototypes of advanced technology are said to exist.
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'''''[=JauntTrooper=]''''' (previously known as '''''Mission: Thunderbolt''''' and '''''[=DoomsDay=] 2000''''') is a series of ScienceFiction {{Roguelike}}s set AfterTheEnd. Having nudged humanity into a devastating WorldWarIII so as to [[DivideAndConquer soften us up for conquest]], aliens now lord over the ruins of Earth. Hope for [[LaResistance the human resistance]] may lie in [[ElaborateUndergroundBase the abandoned R&D labs of MegaCorp International]], where prototypes of advanced technology are said to exist.
But when you finally reach the entrance, the SoleSurvivor of your team, you discover that the enemy has beaten you to it...
Author Dave Scheifler was disappointed by the {{Railroading}} endemic to [[TheEighties Eighties]] computer games. Instead of a prescribed solution to each obstacle--keys to open doors, weapons to kill monsters, a hazmat suit to cross a waste spill--why shouldn't you be allowed to use the crowbar in your inventory to smash through a nearby wall? Or take the rubble from the wall and build a walkway through the waste pool? Or scoop toxic waste into a container and hurl it at an enemy?
The game he built along these lines was a hit among coworkers at DEC, spreading to the company's [[MainframesAndMinicomputers Mainframes]] around the world. Having completed three episodes of a planned four or five, he started over, porting the series to [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}} for home users. However, neither {{Shareware}} releases nor a boxed version from Creator/CasadyAndGreene got much attention... [[AcclaimedFlop outside of lavish praise and awards from reviewers]]. In the end, the series was [[OrphanedSeries left unfinished]] on all three platforms.
* Only the first episode (''Mission: Thunderbolt'') came out for Windows; Scheifler [[http://forums.roguetemple.com/index.php?topic=258.15 now distributes it as freeware]].
* For Mac OS Classic, episodes one (''[[http://macintoshgarden.org/games/mission-thunderbolt Mission: Thunderbolt]]'') and two (''[[http://macintoshgarden.org/games/jaunttrooper-mission-firestorm Mission: Firestorm]]'') are available for download.
* An early mainframe version of ''Mission: Thunderbolt'' [[http://wopr.adelphos.org/systems/wopr.html can be played over telnet]] with a numeric keypad. However, the mainframe-exclusive third mission is presently a MissingEpisode.
!! Tropes found in the ''[=JauntTrooper=]'' games:
* ASCIIArt: What the DEC version used in place of graphics (technically, it was ANSI art). There was also a custom graphics font that would replace the ANSI if your terminal supported it.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy + EyepatchOfPower: Your commanding officer, General Claibourne, who surprisingly predates [[ComicBook/NickFury Ultimate Nick Fury]] by several years.
* [[spoiler:BenchBreaker: How to escape when you're tied to a chair with no items in reach.]]
* BuffySpeak: Many monster species have names like "slimy thing", "icky lump", or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs "icky thing"]].
* CharmPerson: The "stimmer" device can brainwash creatures into defending you with their lives, or failing that, at least render them docile.
* LesCollaborateurs: Among those trying to kill you are humans described as collaborators.
* CouldntFindAPen: The first thing you encounter is a message scrawled in blood, warning of the aliens' presence.
--> ''Beware of [[UnfortunateName the Zytts]]!!!''
* CowardlyBoss: The FinalBoss in ''Firestorm'' will teleport away to recover her health. Overcoming this is a major test of your ingenuity.
* CrowbarCombatant: The crowbar is not only a durable tool for prying and smashing things, but one of the better early-game weapons.
* DisneyOwnsThisTrope
** The game was initially divided into "operations" rather than "missions", but an arcade game called ''Operation Thunderbolt'' forced a change of title.
** [=CyberCops=] were called [=RoboCops=] until [[Film/RoboCop1987 a certain hit movie]] came out.
* EscapeRope: The portable "panic button," which usually teleports you to the game's starting point (but can also [[BigDamnHeroes beam in a squadron of JauntTroopers]] who'll make short work of all nearby enemies.)
* ExplosiveBreeder + MoneySpider: Icky Lumps, which you can pen off and "farm" for their coins.
* ExpospeakGag: How library terminals describe your inventory items, with a dash of SophisticatedAsHell.
--> '''Bone:''' A length of dense, semirigid, porous, calcified connective tissue of the skeleton of most vertebrates (doggies like them a lot!)
* GravityScrew: Gravity wells are Heavy Zones to the point of immobilizing you.
* HelloInsertNameHere: The default PlayerCharacter name is "Captain Hazard".
** You also get to name creatures you befriend, and items you haven't identified yet.
* InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas: Utility bots patrol the complex, cleaning up anything they deem a mess. This can be useful as well as aggravating to the player.
* LostSuperweapon: Your first mission is to recover a prototype {{Antimatter}} bomb.
* MegaCorp: Both the game's developer and the in-game example of this trope are ''actually called'' [=MegaCorp=].
--> You may find that we poke fun at ourselves within the game. In the world of [=JauntTrooper=], [=MegaCorp=] has become a globe spanning entity with all of the power and influence of a world government. Unfortunately, with size and diversity comes complexity. Being not always up to the challenge, the monolithic [=MegaCorp=] International creates a great many products, and it creates those great many products poorly.
* NoRecycling: Averted. Turning in objects to Reclamation Centers for their scrap value is one of the game's biggest sources of income.
* OldSaveBonus: On platforms where more than one episode was released, you could carry your save files forward through the storyline.
* PortableHole: There's a monster by this name that consists of a roving hole in the ground, through which you can drop things.
* PostApocalypticDog: Wild dogs are among the animals loose in the abandoned [=MegaCorp=] complex. They're also likely to be the first creatures the player befriends.
* PurelyAestheticGender
* ReplayValue: One of the game's primary design goals, hand in hand with its WideOpenSandbox approach to problem-solving. Equipment you depended on in one game might be rare or nonexistent in another. Conversely, you might have to adapt to certain kinds of monster being much more plentiful.
* SaveScumming: The author hates this technique to the point of issuing "penalty points" every time you save without quitting, and listing the number of times you did so next to your high score.
--> When Dave originally released the game, there was NO provision for saving a game, trying something, and reloading the saved image if you died. NONE! We testers had to plead with him to add something like that, and when he did, his comments were to the effect that "cheating SHOULD be as painful as possible!"
* SequelHook: In ''Firestorm'', you come across an incomplete Film/{{Stargate}}. Subsequent games would have had you obtain the missing components from [=MegaCorp's=] Far East manufacturing facility, and finally launch a counterattack on the aliens' homeworld using the bomb recovered in ''Thunderbolt''.
* SignatureStyle: The splash screen by John Calhoun shows the view past a woman with her back to the camera, as do his splash screens for ''GliderPro'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Pararena}} Pararena 2]]''.
* TheSixStats: With one addition, Speed (SPD).
* ShoutOut: Sonic screwdrivers, chameleon circuits, and [[TeleportersAndTransporters transmat booths]] are all out of ''Series/DoctorWho''. (Whovians had an advantage in knowing that a sonic could pick locks, disable traps, ''and'' repair items; others tended to discover one of these uses and assume that was it.)
* TakeMeToYourLeader: Bug-Eyed Monsters say this in a FunetikAksent.
** [[spoiler:If you lead a friendly BEM out to the surface, he will in fact meet with your commanding officer and pledge the [=BEMs'=] support against the Zytts. You then return to your mission with a few extra {{Character Level}}s under your belt.]]
* TastesLikeFriendship: Some creatures' loyalty can be won by offering food (or tossing them a bone).
* ThereAreNoRules
--> Rule #1 is complete your assigned Mission. There is no Rule #2.
* TitleConfusion: In between retitlings, {{Retronym}}s, and punctuation/capitalization discrepancies, the three released games add up to over a dozen variant titles.
* {{Trope 2000}}: The original mainframe title, ''[=DoomsDay=] 2000''.
* {{Vibroweapon}}: Vibra-knives, vibra-swords, and vibra-lances have "high-speed oscillating blades".
* WhatTheHellPlayer + NonStandardGameOver: Instead of taking the [[FunWithAcronyms Lightweight Anti-Matter Bomb]] back to headquarters, you can detonate it yourself and destroy a huge chunk of the Earth [[EverythingMakesAMushroom in a mushroom cloud]].
* WithThisHerring: Your StarterEquipment consists of a butcher knife, a battered laser pistol, and [[CyanidePill a black pill]] in case of capture.
* WrittenSoundEffect: Since the game's sounds provide useful cues about events you can't see, there's the option of textual sound effects for players who can't or don't want to hear them.
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'''''[=JauntTrooper=]''''' (previously known as '''''Mission: Thunderbolt''''' and '''''[=DoomsDay=] 2000''''') is a series of ScienceFiction {{Roguelike}}s set AfterTheEnd. Having nudged humanity into a devastating WorldWarIII so as to [[DivideAndConquer soften us up for conquest]], aliens now lord over the ruins of Earth. Hope for [[LaResistance the human resistance]] may lie in [[ElaborateUndergroundBase the abandoned R&D labs of MegaCorp International]], where prototypes of advanced technology are said to exist.
But when you finally reach the entrance, the SoleSurvivor of your team, you discover that the enemy has beaten you to it...
Author Dave Scheifler was disappointed by the {{Railroading}} endemic to [[TheEighties Eighties]] computer games. Instead of a prescribed solution to each obstacle--keys to open doors, weapons to kill monsters, a hazmat suit to cross a waste spill--why shouldn't you be allowed to use the crowbar in your inventory to smash through a nearby wall? Or take the rubble from the wall and build a walkway through the waste pool? Or scoop toxic waste into a container and hurl it at an enemy?
The game he built along these lines was a hit among coworkers at DEC, spreading to the company's [[MainframesAndMinicomputers Mainframes]] around the world. Having completed three episodes of a planned four or five, he started over, porting the series to [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}} for home users. However, neither {{Shareware}} releases nor a boxed version from Creator/CasadyAndGreene got much attention... [[AcclaimedFlop outside of lavish praise and awards from reviewers]]. In the end, the series was [[OrphanedSeries left unfinished]] on all three platforms.
* Only the first episode (''Mission: Thunderbolt'') came out for Windows; Scheifler [[http://forums.roguetemple.com/index.php?topic=258.15 now distributes it as freeware]].
* For Mac OS Classic, episodes one (''[[http://macintoshgarden.org/games/mission-thunderbolt Mission: Thunderbolt]]'') and two (''[[http://macintoshgarden.org/games/jaunttrooper-mission-firestorm Mission: Firestorm]]'') are available for download.
* An early mainframe version of ''Mission: Thunderbolt'' [[http://wopr.adelphos.org/systems/wopr.html can be played over telnet]] with a numeric keypad. However, the mainframe-exclusive third mission is presently a MissingEpisode.
!! Tropes found in the ''[=JauntTrooper=]'' games:
* ASCIIArt: What the DEC version used in place of graphics (technically, it was ANSI art). There was also a custom graphics font that would replace the ANSI if your terminal supported it.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy + EyepatchOfPower: Your commanding officer, General Claibourne, who surprisingly predates [[ComicBook/NickFury Ultimate Nick Fury]] by several years.
* [[spoiler:BenchBreaker: How to escape when you're tied to a chair with no items in reach.]]
* BuffySpeak: Many monster species have names like "slimy thing", "icky lump", or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs "icky thing"]].
* CharmPerson: The "stimmer" device can brainwash creatures into defending you with their lives, or failing that, at least render them docile.
* LesCollaborateurs: Among those trying to kill you are humans described as collaborators.
* CouldntFindAPen: The first thing you encounter is a message scrawled in blood, warning of the aliens' presence.
--> ''Beware of [[UnfortunateName the Zytts]]!!!''
* CowardlyBoss: The FinalBoss in ''Firestorm'' will teleport away to recover her health. Overcoming this is a major test of your ingenuity.
* CrowbarCombatant: The crowbar is not only a durable tool for prying and smashing things, but one of the better early-game weapons.
* DisneyOwnsThisTrope
** The game was initially divided into "operations" rather than "missions", but an arcade game called ''Operation Thunderbolt'' forced a change of title.
** [=CyberCops=] were called [=RoboCops=] until [[Film/RoboCop1987 a certain hit movie]] came out.
* EscapeRope: The portable "panic button," which usually teleports you to the game's starting point (but can also [[BigDamnHeroes beam in a squadron of JauntTroopers]] who'll make short work of all nearby enemies.)
* ExplosiveBreeder + MoneySpider: Icky Lumps, which you can pen off and "farm" for their coins.
* ExpospeakGag: How library terminals describe your inventory items, with a dash of SophisticatedAsHell.
--> '''Bone:''' A length of dense, semirigid, porous, calcified connective tissue of the skeleton of most vertebrates (doggies like them a lot!)
* GravityScrew: Gravity wells are Heavy Zones to the point of immobilizing you.
* HelloInsertNameHere: The default PlayerCharacter name is "Captain Hazard".
** You also get to name creatures you befriend, and items you haven't identified yet.
* InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas: Utility bots patrol the complex, cleaning up anything they deem a mess. This can be useful as well as aggravating to the player.
* LostSuperweapon: Your first mission is to recover a prototype {{Antimatter}} bomb.
* MegaCorp: Both the game's developer and the in-game example of this trope are ''actually called'' [=MegaCorp=].
--> You may find that we poke fun at ourselves within the game. In the world of [=JauntTrooper=], [=MegaCorp=] has become a globe spanning entity with all of the power and influence of a world government. Unfortunately, with size and diversity comes complexity. Being not always up to the challenge, the monolithic [=MegaCorp=] International creates a great many products, and it creates those great many products poorly.
* NoRecycling: Averted. Turning in objects to Reclamation Centers for their scrap value is one of the game's biggest sources of income.
* OldSaveBonus: On platforms where more than one episode was released, you could carry your save files forward through the storyline.
* PortableHole: There's a monster by this name that consists of a roving hole in the ground, through which you can drop things.
* PostApocalypticDog: Wild dogs are among the animals loose in the abandoned [=MegaCorp=] complex. They're also likely to be the first creatures the player befriends.
* PurelyAestheticGender
* ReplayValue: One of the game's primary design goals, hand in hand with its WideOpenSandbox approach to problem-solving. Equipment you depended on in one game might be rare or nonexistent in another. Conversely, you might have to adapt to certain kinds of monster being much more plentiful.
* SaveScumming: The author hates this technique to the point of issuing "penalty points" every time you save without quitting, and listing the number of times you did so next to your high score.
--> When Dave originally released the game, there was NO provision for saving a game, trying something, and reloading the saved image if you died. NONE! We testers had to plead with him to add something like that, and when he did, his comments were to the effect that "cheating SHOULD be as painful as possible!"
* SequelHook: In ''Firestorm'', you come across an incomplete Film/{{Stargate}}. Subsequent games would have had you obtain the missing components from [=MegaCorp's=] Far East manufacturing facility, and finally launch a counterattack on the aliens' homeworld using the bomb recovered in ''Thunderbolt''.
* SignatureStyle: The splash screen by John Calhoun shows the view past a woman with her back to the camera, as do his splash screens for ''GliderPro'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Pararena}} Pararena 2]]''.
* TheSixStats: With one addition, Speed (SPD).
* ShoutOut: Sonic screwdrivers, chameleon circuits, and [[TeleportersAndTransporters transmat booths]] are all out of ''Series/DoctorWho''. (Whovians had an advantage in knowing that a sonic could pick locks, disable traps, ''and'' repair items; others tended to discover one of these uses and assume that was it.)
* TakeMeToYourLeader: Bug-Eyed Monsters say this in a FunetikAksent.
** [[spoiler:If you lead a friendly BEM out to the surface, he will in fact meet with your commanding officer and pledge the [=BEMs'=] support against the Zytts. You then return to your mission with a few extra {{Character Level}}s under your belt.]]
* TastesLikeFriendship: Some creatures' loyalty can be won by offering food (or tossing them a bone).
* ThereAreNoRules
--> Rule #1 is complete your assigned Mission. There is no Rule #2.
* TitleConfusion: In between retitlings, {{Retronym}}s, and punctuation/capitalization discrepancies, the three released games add up to over a dozen variant titles.
* {{Trope 2000}}: The original mainframe title, ''[=DoomsDay=] 2000''.
* {{Vibroweapon}}: Vibra-knives, vibra-swords, and vibra-lances have "high-speed oscillating blades".
* WhatTheHellPlayer + NonStandardGameOver: Instead of taking the [[FunWithAcronyms Lightweight Anti-Matter Bomb]] back to headquarters, you can detonate it yourself and destroy a huge chunk of the Earth [[EverythingMakesAMushroom in a mushroom cloud]].
* WithThisHerring: Your StarterEquipment consists of a butcher knife, a battered laser pistol, and [[CyanidePill a black pill]] in case of capture.
* WrittenSoundEffect: Since the game's sounds provide useful cues about events you can't see, there's the option of textual sound effects for players who can't or don't want to hear them.
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