Survivors

The year is 2087 and the world is recovering from a nuclear holocaust. It is your job to rescue 1000 people who are hibernating in an underground complex. It's your job to save all of them with the aid of three different robots. The complex however was damaged and now not only large boulders are blocking your path but the defense droids have gone wild as well.

If Boulderdash would meet the Thunderbirds (or Octagon Squad, another game converted by Mastertronic for the MSX) this is what might come out of it. At first Survivors looks like a Boulderdash clone but not only are the mazes much larger, here you must also plan ahead and use your robots in good unison otherwise you will get stuck later on in the game.

Atlantis released this game for various computer systems in 1986 like the C64, Plus 4, ZX Spectrum, and MSX.

In my opinion this is a much underestimated game.

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[ProinelThePurple]

Just did a remake for the PC, but I don't seem able to put up a link to it here, do you know how I post a link?

[saigokun]

@ProinelThePurple

Hello my friend,

Unfortunately it is not possible to post links on youtube in the comment section. If you want post a 'link' here you must do it for example like this: url(dot)com. In private messages you can post links of course.

I am looking forward to see this game.

[ProinelThePurple]

Lol, tried replacing the . with (dot) and the / with (bs) but I still can't show the link. I'll send you a private message. It's basically the same game, and only took me 2 days to write xD. Stole the start-up screen from the original tape and just took the graphics from the Spectrum game and touched them up in a paint package. Spent about 4 days creating new levels then got bored and realised nobody will play it anyway :p Mind you, it'd run on Android phones! :p

[saigokun]

@ProinelThePurple

Looking forward to it. I think a lot of background info might be very useful. Hope you are still thinking of that remake. :)

[ProinelThePurple]

@saigokun What I'm considering with the Speccy upload is to do some commentary with it. I know it's not a big game or anything, but a bit of background info might be interesting to some people. And I might try to complete it, all 7 levels.... lol xD

[saigokun]

@ProinelThePurple

Ok thanks for the information. It seems to me they were asking a lot of you.. Hope to see that Speccy upload from you soon :)

[ProinelThePurple]

@saigokun I declined because by the time it was released I was 16 (took over a year to finalise everything) and I'd left school and had another project on the go. More importantly, I couldn't program for any of the other computers. They asked me to do the Amstrad CPC 464 conversion since it also used the same processor as the Spectrum and MSX, but I couldn't get to grips with it. In the end, the conversions were all very well done though I'm not sure I've seen the Amstrad version.

[saigokun]

@ProinelThePurple

I am not a programmer, so I can't judge about that but later on the MSX2 some excellent scrolling games were produced on the MSX2 and later generations, but indeed it remained a problem during the entire existence of the system.

[saigokun]

@ProinelThePurple

Thanks for this background information. Why did you decline?

MSX and Spectrum are in many ways similar to each other, like the micro chip.

In those days the UK was known as Sinclair's country as almost no other home computer could easily penetrate it. Electric Soft tried to produce British made MSX games.

[saigokun]

@ProinelThePurple

No problem, this happens to me too :) Back then the gaming industry was still a small cottage but after the late 1980s, early nineteens it grew much bigger. Although people still make games in their own attic so to speak, and I am thankful for that. I am looking forward to that Speccy upload :) You can upload it as a reply to my video.