Game:

Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper (1987)

Category:

Review

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INTRODUCTION:
Trantor served as a stormtrooper on the front lines of an interstellar war. During this war, Trantor mistakenly killed an infant with his flamethrower. The game's action takes place in Trantor's troubled mind, as he fights through a fictional base while attempting to collect remnants of his soul. Enemies represent varying aspects of his psychosis and the player's eventual death dooms Trantor to a life of despondency. (From Wikipedia)

REVIEW:
The game has an intro and it shows your spaceship and everything else than you being destroyed, and from then you are on your own. You are equipped with a flamethrower with limited fuel, but you can pick up extra fuel as you proceed.

When the game starts you have 90 seconds to find and activate a security terminal, and when you do this you have 90 seconds to find another one. There is eight terminals you need to find, and every time you activate one you will get a letter which you have to write down. When you have got all eight letters you have to puzzle them together to a word that has something to do with a computer. This word will be different from game to game.

When you have got the eight letter word you have to find the main security computer and type in the password, then you will get a new password for the transporter system that will take you out and end the game.

The game is programmed by Nick Bruty and Alan Tomkins that also did fine Spectrum titles like Savage and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, but Trantor was made before these titles and they have not yet figured out how to mix together lots of colors without color clash.

Generally the game is nice looking and plays well but there is some color clash here and there, and it is a very tough game, that will need a lot of practice before it is possible to get anywhere.

Originally this was a 48k game, but this version has got three different AY soundtracks added for the intro, menu and in-game by LPV.

The game was published by Go! in 1987.

Rating:
Original 48k version: 75%
Unofficial 128k version: 80%

If you do not have Beta Disk / TR-dos this version can also run on ZX Spectrum Next and emulators. The game can run on a standard ZX Spectrum 128k with tape recorder if someone changes the loading routine to tape format.

48k tape: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/t/Trantor-TheLastStormtrooper.tap.zip
128k Beta Disk / TR-dos: https://vtrd.in/gamez/t/TRANTLPV.zip

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