Llamasoft The Jeff Minter Story Nintendo Switch
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Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron . In the British gaming world of the 80s and 90s, no one made games like Jeff Minter.
Today, in this brand-new interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse, you can play and relive the story of one of the strangest and most captivating video game developers the world has ever known; a man with a passion for shooters and sheep, lasers and llamas.
Description
Discover the history of titles that have marked the history of video games with THE GOLD MASTER SERIES
New from Digital Eclipse (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story), the Gold Master Series presents iconic games through an innovative "interactive documentary" that brings together the shared history of video games and their creators in a single format.
Step into the mind of Jeff Minter, creator of some of the strangest games of all time.
Take an in-depth look at 42 of the weirdest, most psychedelic, and sheep-like games ever created
PUBLISHER Clear River Games
GENRE History, Retrogaming, VS Fighting
SUPPORT Video game on cartridge
PLATFORMS Nintendo Switch
LANGUAGES Voice in English - Texts in French, English, Italian
German, Spanish, Japanese
PACK in French, Italian, Spanish, English
PEGI AGE RATING 12
Features
LLAMASOFT
Step back in time to the days of cassette tapes, photocopied zines, and README.TXTs. A time when a kid with a Commodore VIC-20 and dreams of radioactive sheep could become one of Britain's best-known game designers. A virtual museum of design documents, playable games, and brand-new videos tell the fascinating story of a true independent game designer.
PLAY THE ORIGINAL GAMES THAT ENTER HISTORY
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story includes 42 classic games across 8 different platforms, from Jeff Minter's early work on the Sinclair ZX81 and Commodore VIC-20, to his later work on the Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Atari 800, and into the 16-bit era with the Atari ST and Atari Jaguar.
GRIDRUNNER: REMASTERED
Jeff's shooter masterpiece, Gridrunner, gets a brand new look from Digital Eclipse, with modern, thrilling graphics and sound, while retaining the core of the Commodore 64 version for 100% gameplay accuracy.
GAMES, GAMES, GAMES!
Sheep in Space. Attack of the Andes. Attack of the Mutant Camels. The Matrix. Metagalactic Llama Battle at the Edge of Time. Hellgate. Laser Zone. And many more. All the Minter classics you've heard of (and several you probably haven't), now with new quality-of-life features to make them more fun than ever.
NEW PRODUCTS AND EXCLUSIVES!
Two of Jeff Minter's early "light synthesizers," Psychedelia and Colourspace, are also included, with all-new options and features optimized for controller play. Finally, Jeff Minter's demo of Attack of the Mutant Camels for the unreleased Konix Multi-System console is also included.
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