Atari ST - Melbourne House - 1988
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- Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling
- Year
- 1988
- Language
- Machine Language
- Publisher
- Melbourne House
- Controls
- Joystick
- Distributor
- Virgin Mastertronic
- Players
- 1 / Demo / 2 (alt.)
- Developer
- Bitmap Brothers
- Resolution
- Low
- Licensed from
- -
- Programmer(s)
- Kelly, Steve
- Country
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Montgomery, Mike / Coleman, Mark
- Software
- English
- Game design
- Kelly, Steve
- Box/Instructions
- —
- Musician(s)
- Whittaker, David
- License
- Commercial
- Sound FX
- Whittaker, David
- Serial
- —
- Cover Artist(s)
- —
- ST Type
- ST, STe, TT / 0.5MB
- MIDI
- —
- Version
- —
- Dump
- Download
- Number of Disks
- 1 / Single Sided
- Dump format
- Pasti
- Protection
- —
OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (4)
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Distributed in Italy by Leader.
See P. Putnik's site for adapted versions for hardware like HxC Floppy Emulator, Atari harddisk, TT, Falcon030 and more: The Atari ST Game Archive
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Disk 1
ADS (1)
VIDEOS (1)
ARTICLE (3)
Bitmap Brothers interview
TIPS (1)
TRIVIA (4)
Origins
Working title for the game was Kelly X
Sound
If you locate the file SPEECH.DAT from the game disk, copy it to another disk, and change the suffix to PRG or TOS, you can launch the program and press keys from Q - T to play different speech samples from the game.
Awards
Microcomputer Industry Awards: Best Sound 1988
Charts
Top UK ST charts position: 2 (5/1988)
Months on charts: 4 between 5/1988 - 8/1988
Months on charts: 4 between 5/1988 - 8/1988
BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (2)
ST Action · May, 1988Rating: 85 %
ST Format · April, 1991Rating: 70%