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Hidden in the Thalamus archives is a game called Nuker. A bizzare name, but a rather interesting game!...
Standing for "NUclear SnooKER", the obective is for the player to guide his spherical craft around randomly shaped areas, shooting spherical toxic dumps into pockets. The player is constantly frustrated by enemy craft but you can gain some excellent power up's.
The game is 8 directional scrolling with parallax effects, viewed from above in assorted spacecrafts. Due to cash flow problems Paranoid Software (the games developer team) closed down at this point and the game never saw the light of day.
Stu Cook originally got in touch with GTW, and believed he may have something of the game to uncover. However things went quiet and nothing came about. Luckily though in 2011, C64.com preserved a bunch of Darren Melbourne's disks and GTW64 filtered through to see what had been found. On there was a few versions of Nuker, pretty much complete - one complete with sound effects!
And here it is for you to finally enjoy! ....It is a neat little game, with a classic 1987 feel to it. It gets a little repetitive and there are far too many levels, but it is fantastic to see a Thalamus title preserved at long last! (Thanks to Slator for the fixes!)
Check it out! ... Case closed!...
Frank.
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source credits - Darren Melbourne, Stu Cook, C64.com, Slator, The Ignorance) |
