Venom Strikes Back on a Commodore 64

Venom Strikes Back © 1988 Gremlin Graphics

Programmed by Mark Charles Rogers
Music by Ben Daglish

Hardware used: C64C and 1541-II floppy disk drive.
Captured with Terratec Grabby.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Venom Strikes Back
• 1988
• Gremlin Graphics
• Mark Charles Rogers
• Ben Daglish
• C64
• C64C
• C-64
• Commodore
• 64
• 64C
• game
• games
• gameplay
• classic
• old
• computer
• vintage
• retro
• 80's
• 1980's
• 1541-II
• floppy
• Commentary
• Terratec
• Grabby
• Polaventris
• 8bit
• 8-bit

[CaseofGlass]

As mentioned a pretty nice use of c64 palette and that SID music in beginning is awesome. I'd probably would loved it when I was a kid, but it was 1988 and I already had Amiga and sadly I used C64 less

[Polaventris]

@CaseofGlass I am not really sure what year I got my Amiga 500. I got it second hand so it surely was not anywhere near its release date.

[TheBladeJunker]

I noticed the MASK listing in the corner so I think this refers to the cartoon & toy line, see Robot Chicken MASK for a quick synopsis of this series. ^_^

Looks nice, great use of C64 colors. I'd have to agree that the finite ammo and constant bombardment don't fit together. It also could have benefited from a bit more vertical screen space to help the player dodge all that crap. Pretty sweet music like you mentioned. Pretty cool, I've played worse. :)

[Polaventris]

@TheBladeJunker Definitely far from the worst games. It only lacks some gameplay tweaking from being a great game. And Robot Chicken is way too funny :)

[justaguythinking]

this is a pretty good looking game for the c64! was it a uk only game? the graphics are superb!

[Polaventris]

@justaguythinking It does look great. Too bad not much else than that and good music went into the game. I really don't know if it was UK only back then, sorry.

[Polaventris]

@greentimos Never had a ZX Spectrum myself but I do agree speccy games have a very special kind of graphics in them.

[Polaventris]

@laffer35 Agreed. I think you might get quite far (unless you fall into instant death water) as there seems to be healing items too and the enemies dont really do that much damage.

[greentimos]

Imo zx-spectrum version is much more beautiful :)

[Polaventris]

@S0ryiu I think someone tipped the enemy off that the player was coming...