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Exolon

Developer(s) Raffaele Cecco
Publisher(s) Hewson
Platform(s) Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Release date 1987, 1989
Genre(s) Run and gun
Mode(s) Single player
Rating(s) N/A
Media Cassette, Floppy disk
Input methods Keyboard, Joystick

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Contents

Gameplay

The player takes control of a futuristic soldier across several flick-screen levels of gameplay. In Computer and video games, the term flip-screen (sometimes also known as flick-screen or page-flipping) refers to games in which the playing environment The screens that make up these levels are filled with various generic aliens as well as gun-emplacements, homing-missiles, land-mines and other hazards. The player can defend themselves with both a gun and rocket-propelled grenades. The two different weapons are effective against different enemies.

The enemies themselves are very varied taking the form of flying aliens of the type traditionally found in shoot 'em ups as well as homing missiles, fixed guns, tanks, land mines, swarming red pods and "crushers" which shoot out of the ground. A tank is a tracked, Armoured fighting vehicle designed for Front-line combat which combines Operational mobility and tactical A land mine is an Explosive device designed to be placed on or in the ground to explode when triggered by an operator or the Proximity of a vehicle person

Part-way through each level, there is a pod in which the player can "upgrade" until the end of the current level to an armoured exoskeleton with improved weapons and armour. An exoskeleton is an external Skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body in contrast to the internal Endoskeleton of for example a Human. Attempting to finish the level without this upgrade results in a score bonus.

Legacy

In December 2005, Retrospec released an updated remake of Exolon for Windows-based computers. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Retrospec is an internet based collective of coders graphics artists and computer musicians Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. It can be downloaded from their website[1]. It was also one of the games featured on the C64 Direct-to-TV, released in 2004. The C64 Direct-to-TV, called C64DTV for short is a single- chip implementation of the Commodore 64 computer contained in a Joystick with 30

See also

External links

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