Game:

Artifact (2018)

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Review

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Fly your P-47 through eight frenzied levels of enemy activity, bombing ground vehicles and shooting aircraft. At the end of each level you must confront and destroy a large enemy battleship, tank or 'plane to progress to the next level. Along the way there are several pick-ups. Each time you collect one of these, your energy level increases, starting at level one and increasing to a maximum level of four. Your energy level determines the number of special weapons that each pick-up releases. For example, when you have collected the pick-up for bombs, you will fire one bomb for a each level of energy.

PICK-UPS:
B Bombs................These drop from the 'plane each time you fire.
E Spray missile........These fly from the front of your 'plane as missiles and then split into small projectiles (2 - 8 depending upon your energy level), flying out in fan formation.
M Multi-missile........2 - 8 missiles fly from the front of your 'plane, split into a wing formation, and then continue onwards.
S Speed-up.............Depending upon your energy level, these cause your 'plane to speed up.
T Directable Fire......2 - 8 bullets are fired in the direction you are currently holding the joystick. The 'plane will also move in the same direction - a deadly but tricky manoeuvre.
1 Up Extra Life........Gives you an extra life.

This is a fine looking game, and back in the days it also became very popular, and the only flaw it had was that the P-47 you control was kind of slow, which made the game extremely tough when you came to the later levels. This version is a Slider/Goodboy release from 2005 where the speed of your P-47 has been doubled, and it plays magnificent!

You have to blast the hell out of everything in 8 levels, there is plenty of different weapons to collect, and there is a boss fight at the end of each level. Even with the x2 speed selected you will get a good challenge completing the game, and if you find it too tough you can enable the trainer at the beginning where you also select x2 speed.

If you have a CRT TV this game will also have some artifact colors, and the review and rating for this game is for the x2 speed version with CRT TV.

The game was published by Firebird Software Ltd in 1990.
Rating = 91%

The game played in this video is a special Beta disk version (The program SAMdisk can change .scl to .trd so it also can run on DivIDE/DivMMC devices) with x2 speed for the P-47. It was made by Slider/Goodboy in 2005 and it can be downloaded here: https://vtrd.in/gamez/p/P-47_.ZIP

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