Nevryon Acorn Games Video Archive A3010/TV Card

A 1990 R-type clone published by the 4th Dimension.

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• Acorn
• RiscOS
• Archimedes
• Games

[Clive0075]

That was a really great game !

And you can read the coder also created the graphics (256 colours when the Amiga had only 32).

Sadly the game is not overscan, when it's so easy to tweak the VIDC (less than 100 ARM instructions to create).

Just amazing ! Hats off to him !

The 4th dimension was the main source of quality games for the Archimedes range of computers.

[HeartfeltDawn]

Quite possibly the best original Arc game soundtrack.

[MathsYknow]

@EightDeadlyWords As a kid, I remember liking some of the music tracks so much that I taped them by putting my cassette recorder up to the computer speakers. I recall it didn't work very well because you could hear me tapping away on the fire button (this gave a more rapid rate of fire than if you just held it down).. The search that brought me to this video 20 years later was just on the off chance anyone had posted the music tracks. I expected zero results, not the music's composer! =)

[MathsYknow]

@cm1179 I beat this game over and over on the easy skill level and wondered why I couldn't get to the top of the high score chart - you need to play on hard difficulty. So I did that, and beat the game over and over - it's fair to say I played it to bits! The skull boss was one of the easiest - just race up to him, sit just above his eye and kill him before his hands even reach you.

[EightDeadlyWords]

Cheers to you guys who've commented on the music! I can hardly remember writing this soundtrack! Been a long time since I wrote game music, but I'm still writing music in bands.

[meltheofcgamergirl]

This game looks awesome! I love shoot 'em ups. Check out my channel for a couple of obscure shooting games that I've covered. Keep up the good work!

[espadav8]

Getting a full play through of this game would be amazing.

I forget if it was ever completed in our house. I do remember getting rather far, but my levels are getting mixed up.

Space ship - rocky planet (3 headed dragon) - inside space ship (thing that shot mines) - outside over grass (head thingy)? - inside slim place (forget boss)? - outside future city (forget boss again) - another alien world (???)

Sound right to anyone?

[ojfoggin]

I only ever got past the 3 headed dragon boss once I think. And that was only if I managed to get to that level. I still remember the password for it now (mirador) but if you used the password then you didn't have enough powerups to last the level. LOL!

[cm1179]

did anyone complete this game? i reckon i'm a failry competent game player but i only made it to the last level once, with one life left. i remember being killed by a big blob of jelly type stuff which came from behind me and i just couldn't escape it and i never got to the last level again cos that skull boss was too hard. however, inserting disc 2 did show the ending!

[shininnit]

I loved this game so much back in the day. Shame whoever's playing it here isn't very good at it ;)