C64 Longplay - Antiriad

A complete walkthrough of the C64 game "The sacret armour of Antiriad"

The Story: In 2086, civilization destroys itself in a nuclear Armageddon, as two factions who both develop an anti-radiation battlesuit completely immune to conventional weapons go to war against each other when diplomatic peace talks break down. In the following millennia, the survivors develop into a hardy but peaceful race, living a quiet agricultural existence.

One day, mysterious alien forces emerge from an old volcano containing a prewar military base and attack, quickly conquering and enslaving the new breed of humans, and forcing the populace to work in mines. Many rebel against the mysterious overlords and one of these rebels, Tal, is instructed by his elders to seek-out a legendary armoured suit - the Sacred Armour of Antiriad (the last word being a corruption of "anti-radiation"), which is in fact one of the prewar battlesuits whose development originally instigated the diplomatic crisis that started the nuclear war. This armour is rumoured to render the wearer impervious to attack and, with its help, Tal hopes to defeat and overthrow the alien rulers of Earth.

However, the armour requires other equipment to be added to it in order to make it function fully. These include anti-gravity boots, particle negator, pulsar beam, and implosion mine. The last add-on is the most important as it is the one needed to destroy the volcano the enemy uses as its base.

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• antiriad
• commodore
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• tal

[unamonu]

A super game, I used to enjoy it a lot. And the music is awsome. A good thing is you can find both the music and a decent version of the the game for PC if you search in Wikipedia :)

[razor71]

There is only one decent version of Antiriad and that is the C64 version.. ;)

[cloudskipa]

Really well played, you make it look stupidly easy, but I remember it being nails back in the day.

[se98djkm]

was it really that short?.. I seemed to spend hours playing it and never finishing it... thanks for uploading it.. lots of happy memories..

[omma911]

Just realised that it is just a somewhat primitive Metroid game, and I found it highly difficult when I was playing it as a kid.

[Borna909]

Recently I was showing some old C64-stuff to kids that just have every modern video game console. When they saw this game they all were amazed!

[esathegreat]

too bad the clowns at palace used the same limited engine for all their games.

[wandererlain]

Way to go! You beat me by just 8 seconds! (see my vid)

[mrtwig80]

Remembering tearing my hair of smashin my suncom "slik stik" hard in the basement wall in anger to this game when i was a kid..

Love it anyway.. never beat it thou

[Kazuya720]

wow!! loooong time ago... the thing at 2:37 scared me so when I was a little boy ;)

[jkeelsnc]

I had this game and it was a pretty good one. The controls and game play were a little odd. But still a great game. Utilized close to the full potential of the VIC graphics chip of the C64 and the opening music utilizes the SID sound chip pretty well. A nice display of what the 64 is capable of in the hands of the right programmers.

[VisionGhostPoet]

Blimey I wasnt eveb in my teens when I played this, if only it was simple you made it look LOL!

[DaChef1974]

Yeah, I couldn't remember the name of this game for years!