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Huge playlist archive with games from 2020: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxOanVBhqd3uaUbZJnzjW5Sv0Mot2ntmx
Yandex Retro Games Battle 2020: "I wanted to write a Spectrum game from scratch that was based on one of my favorite games from the 80s. I wanted to see how long it would take to create. To put myself under the pressure that those programmers from the 80s had to endure, writing games and getting them out on time. Those programmers had weeks to get a blockbuster game written. This game took three years to write where time sitting down in the evenings was spent writing lumps of code. Most of the time was spent fixing bugs. This game is so vast that I had to release as a beta. Cygnus Alpha was a quick idea that came up on speaking to a few key people on social media. I mentioned that I was writing this game but I needed ideas. I was presented with a list of ideas that just kept growing as I was writing them into the game. The game has been written on the Z80 assembler called Zeus which is freely downloaded. Without this and the help from Simon Brattel, this game would not have been possible. The game was formed by a collaboration of people on social media. Most of the graphics, cover art and loading screen by Andy Green Ingame music by David Saphier Game coding by me, Steve Broad."
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You are controlling a spaceship, your playfield is the whole universe, and you can travel wherever you want. You can trade with other spaceships (if they are friendly, else they will attack you), or you can attack planets and steal their goodies. You have to maintenance your ship, it can do some self-repair, but you can land on planets and pay for getting it totally fixed.

How to play:

1-5 – Speed of ship (5 uses less fuel)
6-9 – Moves up/down and left/right
0 – Fire
A – Status screen (press B and N to switch between the two status screens)
S – Sites (use this to aim at enemies)
H – Pause
O – Unpause
F – Shields for protection against enemy fire
L – Sector select
J – Hyperdrive to selected sector
P – Land/take off from planet (Can only be done from planets that looks like 7:25 and 10:53)
M – Mute

The game was released by Steve Broad in 2020.

Download here: https://rgb.yandex.ru/2020?fbclid=IwAR1XPKnUK4ItmlAen0i-2n7ipvvT8gYlu9T-ye9_XR3yw1-LG0yPeudRJ8w