Earthlight (video game)

Earthlight

Slaatn's ship (left) is approached by hostile forces (right)
Developer(s) Nexus Productions
Publisher(s) Firebird Software
Designer(s) Pete Cooke
Platform(s) ZX Spectrum
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Scrolling shooter
Mode(s) Single-player

Earthlight is a scrolling shooter video game published for the ZX Spectrum in 1988 by Firebird Software. It was written by Pete Cooke.

The player takes the role of an alien explorer from the star-system of Arcturus, called Slaatn, who has been drawn off-course by a beam of energy from Earth and has had to make a landing on the moon. Slaatn must neutralise the box-like transmitters and thus eliminate the force field.

Earthlight is a shooter featuring parallax scrolling and shadow effects, a novelty for the Spectrum.[2]

Critical response

CRASH awarded the game 90%, with the reviewers impressed with every aspect of the game, particularly the 3D shaded graphics and the sound effects. The gameplay was compared to that of Uridium.[2] Your Sinclair awarded 8/10, describing it as a polished game but without the depth of Pete Cooke's previous releases.[3]

References

  1. Earthlight at GameFAQs
  2. 1 2 "Earthlight review". CRASH (53).
  3. Jonathan Davies (July 1988). "Earthlight review". Your Sinclair (31).

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