Exile on Acorn Electron 8 bit vintage home computer

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Gameplay from Exile by Superior Software, on the Acorn Electron 8 bit vintage home computer. Retro Gaming.

This is not a review, walkthrough, playthrough, or demonstration of my playing ability.
It's simply a quick demonstration of the game so that anyone not familiar with these old games can see what it looks like.
It's also here so that I can embed it, along with most of the games in my collection, on my website (see link above).

Any opinions or comments I make regarding these games should largely be taken with a pinch of salt.
They are usually based on my first impressions after a very brief play.

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[wayne9999999]

Great game but really unforgiving and frustrating. I never clocked it but got quite close once after 10 hours non-stop play. Always remember getting spaced out by the mushrooms below the surface lol.

[SteveBenway]

@wayne9999999 It really is a tricky one. I never finished it either. I seem to remember reaching a point where there was a bricked up gate in the floor which I couldn't open, and always running out of resources before I could make any more progress.

[taffyt120]

@SteveBenway I used to get stuck there too, I could never manage the proper method involving the radioactive boulders to blow it apart. But one day, by chance, I found a different method, I remembered a teleport position whilst stood on the gate, flew to the ceiling with a normal lying around rock, dropped it then teleported to the gate, lay down and a few seconds later the rock hit me with such force it pushed me straight through the gate! Great success! Ah... the memories... :)

[SteveBenway]

@taffyt120 Blimey... interesting method :D

I keep telling myself I'll come back to this one day and have another proper crack at it, but never quite get around to it. Maybe when I retire in another 20 years from now... lol

[bcostin]

I really like the style of the graphics in this version of the game, and the artful use of the relatively small color palette. Working within the limitations of classic hardware has inspired some amazing work from game designers.

[Foebane72]

I find it fascinating that they had to store game data in the memory for the screen image. Having studied the Atari XL's memory map, I too realise how precious memory space on retro computers actually is, especially if you're not using cartridges to store the game data separate from the system's memory map.

At least, I assume that's how it works?

[mcgigglish]

@Foebane72 I seem to remember Superior software did the same with Citadel, and possibly one of the Repton games as well. It looked a mess - but I didn't mind as long as I got to play great games on the humble electron

[SteveBenway]

@excalibur1814 Long time since I read the story, but that sounds familiar :)

[excalibur1814]

@SteveBenway Triax was the mad man who killed the original crew of the Pericles?

[wayne9999999]

Steve, I think the "bricked up gate" you mention was the one that is meant to be blown up by dropping a radioactive boulder on to another one placed on the gate itself.  This gives access to the lower parts of the planet. I managed to do that once but getting the boulders to that part of the map is tricky. Below that is a nightmare involving a very tough robot and some invisible birds. I gave up at that point lol.

[davangel]

Amazing game. Took me months to complete it, and even when you know what you're doing, it still takes about 6 hours to play through.