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Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the 80s and 90s, nobody made games like Jeff Minter. Now, in a new interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse...
Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the 80s and 90s, nobody made games like Jeff Minter. Now, in a new interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse, you can play the history of one of the weirdest, wildest game developers to ever exist – a man who loved shooters and sheep, lasers and llamas.
LLAMASOFT
Journey back in time to an era of cassette tapes, photocopied zines, and README.TXT. An era in which a kid with a Commodore VIC-20 and dreams of radioactive sheep could become one of Britain's best-known game makers. A virtual museum of design documents, playable games, and all-new video features tell the fascinating story of a true independent game designer.
PLAY THE ACCLAIMED ORIGINALS
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story includes 42 classic games from 8 different platforms, from Jeff Minter's earliest work on the Sinclair ZX81 and Commodore VIC-20, to later work on the Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Atari 800, and deep into the 16-bit era with the Atari ST and Atari Jaguar.
GRIDRUNNER: REMASTERED
Jeff's signature shooter masterpiece Gridrunner gets an all-new look from Digital Eclipse, updated into thrilling modern graphics and sound – while still running the core of the Commodore 64 version for 100% gameplay accuracy.
GAMES, GAMES, GAMES
Sheep In Space. Andes Attack. Attack of the Mutant Camels. Matrix. Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time. Hellgate. Laser Zone. And many more. All the Minter classics you've heard of (and several you probably haven't), now with new quality-of-life features to make playing them more fun than ever before.
Two of Jeff Minter's earliest "light synthesizers," Psychedelia and Colourspace, are also included, with all-new options and features optimized for controller-based play. Finally, Jeff's demo of Attack of the Mutant Camels for the unreleased Konix Multi-System console is also included.
THE GOLD MASTER SERIES
New from Digital Eclipse (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, The Making of Karateka), the Gold Master Series presents iconic games in an innovative "interactive documentary" format, putting the shared history of games and their creators into one comprehensive package.
I must say that despite having played some of Jeff Minter games in the past I was never fully aware of much of his history in the industry.
This is an incredible way to learn about someone as interesting as Jeff and an excellent way to play some games that there's no other way to access, plus an amazing remaster of Gridrunner in the same vein that Karateka was remastered in the previous Golden Master Series compilation.
Another +1 for preservation not only of a compilation of functioning games but so much details of the era such as reviews and promotional material.
Hope Digital Eclipse can continue doing this and more Golden Master Series are produced and release on GOG.
This documentary/game collection gives you goosebumps, an amazing journey from the 80s to the present day with a modern and user-friendly graphical interface, a labor of love completed to perfection.
It's impossible to find any flaws. You'll hear a piece of history, then choose and play every game, enjoying every detail, from the perfectly adapted joypad and keyboard buttons for each game, to the detailed touches like the easily readable in-game manual and the fantastic emulation of 80s CRT TVs. The soundtrack that accompanies the work is something psychedelic, just like the rest of Jeff Minter's work.
A tribute to a great programmer and the history of video games, a wonderful, fine work of video game preservation. Deserves to be buyed at full price, this documentary / game collection will remain unforgettable.
TL;DR, get this release if you are ANY interested at all in Llamasoft's work.
While this doesn't have EVERYTHING Jeff Minter had created, this is still a very well made package to learn about and play a big chunk of his early work.
[Quick side note: I would recommend Gridrunner++ and Hover Bovver 2 from his itch.io, and especially recommend Moose Life and Minotaur Arcade on Steam or PS4 for anyone interested in trying out some more recent games that aren't in this collection.]
Linux users will be glad to know this game works well in WINE. No issues when I tested it on my Manjaro desktop with a graphics card.
All the games work well on PC. For the Switch version, all but the Konix and the "Atari-ST" games run at full speed. I'm hoping a future update will improve those 4 on the switch version, but it is still a nice buy.
Not all the games will be a hit, but you can discover some new favorites. Some are intuitive like the Gridrunner games, while others may need a reading of the manuals, seeing the button mappings, or even watching youtube videos to understand it better. The collection has rewind for the 8-bit games and save states for almost all.
Controls are spot on. Anything that isn't intuitive usually has button explanations on the bottom tips display. Tempest 2000 can also use the mouse! You would enable Analog Input in the menu for that, and it works pretty well (though for the flying bonus stages, you'd have to use right mouse button and scroll wheel button to go up and down). Since many of these games are from computers, you can use their original keyboard bindings on them, which is quite nice for the light synths in here.
My one minor nitpick I have is that the Atari-ST games are really Atari Jaguar ports which may have some modifications. I only know of Llamatron, but I'm okay with it. Although the sounds are wrong, the toned down strobe effects make this version more enjoyable to me.
I like this collection a whole lot, the only kind of nitpicky things I have with this collection is they didn't add Traxx, it's a shame. I prefer it over something like Ratman for example and maybe included some of the less accessible newer games Jeff released, and they used the C64 version of Gridrunner instead of the in my opinion superior version of the Vic 20 for Gridrunner Remastered, but the C64 version is still good, overall for 30 USD this collection is priced fair
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