Blood Money — PDF | Atarimania

Information

Genre: Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling
Language: Machine Language
Controls: Joystick
Players: 1, 2 (sim.), Demo
Resolution: Low
Programmer(s): Smithson, Wayne
Graphic Artist(s): Smith, Tony
Game design: Jones, David
Musician(s): Tonge, Paul
Sound FX: [unknown]
Cover Artist(s): Jones, Peter Andrew
Year: 1989
Publisher: Psygnosis
Distributor: -
Developer: WJS Design
Licensed from: -
Country: United Kingdom
Software: English
Box/Instructions: English
License: Commercial
ST Type: ST, STe, 0.5MB
Number of Disks: 2, Single Sided

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.5/10 · Votes: 90 · Downloads: 5,168 · Hits: 22,511

Additional Comments

Distributed in USA by Computer Service Software.
Distributed in France by 16/32 Diffusion.

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

Screenshots (23)

Cover Art (2)

Instructions (16)

Ads (3)

Article (7)

Work in Progress

News

Goodies (1)

Poster

Tips (1)

Trivia (4)

Graphics

ST graphics produced using Degas Elite and Art Director

Awards:

ST Format: Most Violent ST Games 3rd place

Charts

Top UK charts position: 15 (1/1990 full price), 8 (11/1991 budget)
Months on charts: 4 between 12/1989 - 11/1991

Releases

First 8-bit releases reviewed in UK multiformat magazines for Commodore 64 (7/1990)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Amiga (4/1989), Atari ST (5/1989), PC (5/1989)

Book / Magazine Reviews (12)

ST Format · September, 1989 · Rating: 90%

ACE · November, 1989 · Rating: 740/1000

Computer + Video Games (C+VG) · June, 1989 · Rating: 84%

ST Action · October, 1989 · Rating: 85%

The Games Machine · November, 1989 · Rating: 88%

ST Format · January, 1991 · Rating: 90%

ST Format · February, 1991 · Rating: 90%

The One · June, 1991 · Rating: 4/5

Games X · July 18th-24th, 1991 · Rating: 4,5/5

ST Action · August, 1992 · Rating: 86%

ST Format · May, 1994 · Rating: 90%

ST Format · October, 1994 · Rating: 90%

Comments (7)

Bob — 15 Nov 2014
I just saw your comment today. I found your FTP site and I uploaded my Blood Money there. Many Thanks!
marakatti — 4 Nov 2014
Thanks for the report. Any chance to send your version to Atarimania?
Bob — 1 Nov 2014
Unfortunately, the Pasti file that is here does not work correctly with the $200 level. Your ship and all of the enemies are simply corrupted graphics. The $100 level works fine. I tried it in both Steem 3.6.5 and Hatari 1.8 and they both showed the same problem. I was able to create my own Pasti file from a disk stream file that appears to work correctly on both levels. I am not good enough at Blood Money to make it through anywhere near all of either level.
Steven — 16 Jun 2013
Original version of this game runs in Steem SSE 3.5.1. -- Megathanks Steven! Another awesome reason to update to latest Steem :) Atarimania ST team
Jeff Fulton — 19 Nov 2012
Also, one of the few early releases to use tricks to get 512 colors on the screen at once. Very impressive,
Jeff Fulton — 19 Nov 2012
Oops, my "single color player" comment was meant for Menace. Another great side-scroller from the same publisher.
Jeff Fulton — 19 Nov 2012
Fun, well made, but difficult side-scroller when the ST needed some good ones. The only real problem I have with it is that the player's ship is just a single color. It looks like a place-holder. We purchased ST games rather than stole them, and I remember this being one of my all-time favorite joy-stick smashers and worth every penny.