1990 Lightsource Productions
Platforms: Commodore Amiga
Next into the archives is a game you will never have heard of, and was due from the creators of Shockwave on the Amiga. This was a very early top-down multi-directional shooter called Aftershock – also for the Commodore Amiga.
The game was being created by Lance Abson, and had a neat feature where you could zoom in and out of the background, similar to the arcade game Metal Hawk by Namco.
Unfortunately it seems the game didn’t get very far at all before it was cancelled. There is a simple prototype where you can control the main ship that flies around a test landscape, but there are no enemies or bullets, no sound and the game will crash if you exit part of the map. Lance tells us that the game was inspired by the ZX Spectrum classic Cyclone.
There is a sophisticated intro sequence though on one of the disks, minus sound – though one of the disks has some samples and a mod file lurking which hasn’t been added to anything. We hope to learn more from Lance about why the game was cancelled, but here it is for now for you to check out.
With thanks to Lance Abson for allowing us to preserve and release.
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