Tower Toppler (beta) for the Atari 8-bit family
15Came out for:
Acorn 32-bit
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari 7800
Atari ST
Commodore 64
DOS
Game Boy
NES
Symbian
Wii VC
ZX Spectrum
Game description:
You play a small grey guy who needs to blow up eight towers, because their presence is somehow poisoning the water of planets which could potentially be ideal colonies. Unfortunately you need to get to the top of these towers to blow them up.
You make your way up to the top of the tower via walkways around the outside of the towers. You need to jump over, kick, and run from various enemies in your journey to the top. Most vertical movement is achieved by jumping onto moving ledges at the right moment.
The game was considered revolutionary in its time for its graphic technique. As the main character walked around the outside of the tower, the character was fixed in the middle of the screen while the tower itself rotated. This gave it a pseudo-3D effect.
Towers are linked together via a voyage through the sea in your trusty MK.7 submarine. This plays out as a side-scrolling collect-'em-up in which bonus points can be obtained.
What I think:
Quite fun game, shame this version never made it past beta.
Note: This version is actually black and white, but I used artifacting. I highly recommend to use artifacting, as it makes the game easier to play than in black and white.