I never found that a Sci-Fi game on the C64 that gave me that Star Trek "captains bridge" feeling like Psi-5 Trading Company did. Beautiful Accolade presentation. Choose your crew, launch into space, and scramble to evade and destroy enemy ships, while prioritising power/repairs.

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Who remembers this classic, another one of those awesome 2-Player games they did, great fun this game.

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Some older C64 art that I did not release until now, for reasons.

Link to progress animation:
https://t.co/zyxHGnlMLi

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III Venom Strikes Back, this 3rd sequel moves onto a side scrolling platform game, collect things, turn things on and off adventure, all 3 games were different

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16-BIT SATURDAY: STAR CONTROL In 1990 the forces of the Alliance of Free Stars fought against the predatory Ur-Quan Hierarchy. A stunning Amiga action strategy game from 'Toys for Bob' this also came to other formats

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Wow! We've reached 400 followers! Here's a celebration that was really hard to do with the lowercase ROM! Dedicated to Andrew Probert, designer of the Enterprise D!

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Awesome Cartoon, not so awesome game but still played it loads, the sequels are much better than this original as they featured more vehicles, still fun though.

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I wish I'd ever seen this game in the arcades. I think I would have had a lot of fun for it. 🤔 But for me, it's a lot like Green Beret: I played the C64 conversion for many years. Eventually found the arcade game, and went "huh, this isn't so hard now, is it?" 😋

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Even the bosses and the 3D sections.. everything feels just about the same (but a ton prettier) after coming to it from the C64. But, while some sections are tricky here, on the C64 those same sections were sometimes just rage-quit tricky for me now. (Not so bad for young me.) 😁

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Shinobi, in MAME, is a lot better than the C64 port. 😁 Faster, prettier, more enemies on screen. A good illustration at what the gap was between arcade games and home computers at the time. 🤔 The level layouts were very well translated. Often large bits are cut out in a port.

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Definitely. I went and played the arcade game in MAME a couple of days later, and was really amazed at how well the levels matched. The C64 version was just a bit harder, because upper/lower levels were more often off screen, and jumping between them was slower.

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So, if you were wondering "did anyone Shinobi this week?" I would say "yes, yes I did." 😁 I first played it, as a kid, on the C64. (I'm not sure I ever saw the arcade cab.) And I really liked it. The main platforming action was well designed, and the 3D bonus stages are fun. 😎

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