Earthlight (video game)

Earthlight
Cover art
Developer(s) Nexus
Publisher(s) Firebird Software
Designer(s) Pete Cooke[1]
Platform(s) ZX Spectrum
Release
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.[1]

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.[3]

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.[3] Your Sinclair awarded 8/10, describing it as a polished game but without the depth of Pete Cooke's previous releases.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers". dadgum.com.
  2. ↑ Earthlight at GameFAQs
  3. 1 2 "Earthlight review". CRASH (53).
  4. ↑ Jonathan Davies (July 1988). "Earthlight review". Your Sinclair (31). Archived from the original on 2006-09-24.


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