Dominator
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Spectrum 48k
Dominator for the Spectrum, based on an original game for the Commodore 64 released by System 3 in 1989. Spectrum +3 disk version used here but its another of those lazy transfers that make no use of the 128k what so ever. The disk does help with the multiload levels I guess though.
"Warnings, S.O.S's and stories of total planet absorbtion had been banded around a terrified solar system for some time now but had been conveniently overlooked by spineless, bureaucratic so-called 'leaders'.
And now it was too late. This was incomprehensible. This was immense. Its vast appetite was closing in on Earth and the putrid smell of partly digested nations hung ominously in space above a society that had refused to believe that its very existence would ever again be in question.
W h o c o u l d f i g h t ?
Who would dare go inside this mutant horror and battle against its bodily defence mechanisms, to obliterate its sustaining organs, to stop its crazed hunger stampede across the universe?
It started an enquiring whisper, mounting into a crescendo of international hope and worship. Mankind needs you, the 'Dominator' ... You need to fight ... IT NEEDS TO FEED
…"
While the game doesn't really resemble the C64 original, I isn't a bad shoot em up for the spectrum in its own right. It kind of sits between Darious and R-type. It just would have been nice if in 1989 they could have added some 128k music and sfx. The weapon pick up system can be annoying as you do not know what you are going to get and what you do get is time limited. Sometimes you get nothing at all!
Its worth mentioning that on the title screen you can see a high score table. You seem to only get to enter a score if you get a game over. If you finish the game its right back to the title screen and your achievement was all for nowt
Dominator for the Spectrum, based on an original game for the Commodore 64 released by System 3 in 1989. Spectrum +3 disk version used here but its another of those lazy transfers that make no use of the 128k what so ever. The disk does help with the multiload levels I guess though.
"Warnings, S.O.S's and stories of total planet absorbtion had been banded around a terrified solar system for some time now but had been conveniently overlooked by spineless, bureaucratic so-called 'leaders'.
And now it was too late. This was incomprehensible. This was immense. Its vast appetite was closing in on Earth and the putrid smell of partly digested nations hung ominously in space above a society that had refused to believe that its very existence would ever again be in question.
W h o c o u l d f i g h t ?
Who would dare go inside this mutant horror and battle against its bodily defence mechanisms, to obliterate its sustaining organs, to stop its crazed hunger stampede across the universe?
It started an enquiring whisper, mounting into a crescendo of international hope and worship. Mankind needs you, the 'Dominator' ... You need to fight ... IT NEEDS TO FEED
…"
While the game doesn't really resemble the C64 original, I isn't a bad shoot em up for the spectrum in its own right. It kind of sits between Darious and R-type. It just would have been nice if in 1989 they could have added some 128k music and sfx. The weapon pick up system can be annoying as you do not know what you are going to get and what you do get is time limited. Sometimes you get nothing at all!
Its worth mentioning that on the title screen you can see a high score table. You seem to only get to enter a score if you get a game over. If you finish the game its right back to the title screen and your achievement was all for nowt
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