Aaargh! - Atari ST / STE

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Published on November 20, 2021 5:30:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWHHhHmftlY

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Aaargh! (1987)

Duration: 10:53

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In this video, Aaargh!, released in 1989 for the Atari ST by Melbourne House.
What we got here is an arcade Rampage-like game where the protagonists are two giant monsters, a cyclops (an ogre according to the manuals) and a giant lizard, who destroy human villages belonging to different historical civilizations. The game is for one or two simultaneous players, each controlling one of the monsters. The game screen is fixed and shows a village, with the monsters roaming and destroying the buildings with their fists or breathing fire. The village is defended by catapults or mobile cannons and by giant flying animals. Once destroyed, the inhabitants flee the crumbling buildings, and the monsters can grab and devour them to regain energy; in addition, each destroyed building can drop food or power-ups. One of the buildings can hide a giant Roc egg, which, if collected, immediately ends the level and starts a bonus level, where the two giants fight each other, for the conquest of the egg and a higher score.
Graphically is a bit raw, not much polished (but maybe it's my capture rig that don't work well with this game because everything is too much bright), sometimes the controls are a bit unresponsive, the sound is good with a digitized intro track. The playability is good in solo but, if played with a friend, it becomes very funny.
Here you'll find loading music and gameplay of first level where at first I try to figure out what to do and later I wasn't able to grab the f*****g egg. But in the end I succeded and lost the battle for the egg.

All footage taken from original hardware machines and upscaled to 1080P.

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