Nu Wave gameplay footage (Retro Gamer issue 226)
1To accompany my article on Nu Wave software in Retro Gamer issue 226, here is footage from three of the four games released on CRL's innovative and unusual label.
See https://youtu.be/ZDy7kBGZ66U for the unboxing video.
0:00 Intro
0:20 - iD by Mel Croucher and Colin Jones (ZX Spectrum):
Interact with an alien intelligence trapped in your computer, by gaining its trust and finding out the objects/people it has been in the past.
Note: this footage has no audio.
08:45 - IQ by David Maynard (C64):
Originally released by Electronic Arts as WORMS? in 1983, control up to four "worms" as they try to feed on the dots and occupy as much of the grid as they can. Written in FORTH and ported from the Atari 8-bit, Nu Wave rebranded the game as IQ for the European market. Particularly interesting is the sound, with notes generated on a pentatonic scale.
20:05 - TUBULAR BELLS by The Zen Room (C64):
A "light synthesizer" with ten tracks from the classic Mike Oldfield album, this was fully licensed from Virgin Music and featured SID covers by Clever Music. Key inputs change the colour, mode and symmetry of the drawing routine, or it can be left to "sync" with the music output.
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