You play a small green creature who needs to blow up eight towers, because their presence is somehow poisoning the water of planets which could potentially be ideal colonies. Unfortunately you need to get to the top of these towers to blow them up.
You make your way up to the top of the tower via walkways around the outside of the towers. You need to jump over, kick, and run from various enemies in your journey to the top. Most vertical movement is achieved by jumping onto moving ledges at the right moment.
The game was considered revolutionary in its time for its graphic technique. As the main character walked around the outside of the tower, the character was fixed in the middle of the screen while the tower itself rotated. This gave it a pseudo-3D effect.
Towers are linked together via a voyage through the sea in your trusty MK.7 submarine. This plays out as a side-scrolling collect-'em-up in which bonus points can be obtained.
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1. Tony
18 Apr 2008, 00:38 GMT
This game looks way ahead of its time! I love the C64 sound effects
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2. KhaoShar
18 Apr 2008, 01:17 GMT
o_o >_< OoO
This looks amazing!!! The rotation of the tower, the multi-paralax scrolling in the sub levels.... if the gameplay can keep up with those optics, you can count me in!
Hope 'tis not one of those games that can be cleared during a single coffee break, though. Many games of that era tend to be great but short, trying to prolong playingtime with a plus of difficulty and a minus of continues... anyone can tell me about that?
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3. Adamant
18 Apr 2008, 03:42 GMT
Ah yeah, I remember this. It was pretty, but not particularly outstanding in any other way.
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4. Mario maniac
18 Apr 2008, 05:43 GMT
If C64 games EVER make it over here, I'll set aside 500 points for this. It looks fun.
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5. Damo
18 Apr 2008, 08:21 GMT
This was also released on the NES as Castelian.
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6. Simbabbad
18 Apr 2008, 17:03 GMT
Excellent game, I owned it when I had an Amiga and I'm amazed the C64 version is pretty much the same quality.
The game is part platformer, part puzzle and part die & retry, it's really excellent and original and well made. Maybe I'll pick it up.
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7. DEMON212
18 Apr 2008, 18:46 GMT
As I said on Drake's channel. It looks weird but fun. So I can see me getting this.
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8. Falk Sturmfels
30 Apr 2008, 11:55 GMT
I have the original C64-Box, but the game doesn`t load anymore. If this appears on VC, i will download it as fast if i can.
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9. Oldschoolmayhem
02 May 2008, 06:11 GMT
When will the C64 come to America? I want this game as Wasteland would be awesome if it came out on the C64.
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