Last Days of Atlantis

I had been working on a remake of Atlantis which is based primarily on the Atari 2600 and Intellivision versions. Yeah it’s gonna be a mix of the 2 plus some new features added in. I also took inspiration from the Atari 8-bit personal computer system version.

Download the manual here (preview has issues but is still readable): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9aBX97zgGJ0TXdMcXJybmRWaFU

Difficulty options:

• Easy: Slowest enemies, Bandits don’t appear during the first night and destroy other ships when shot

• Normal: Normal speed enemies, Bandits don’t appear during the first night

• Hard: Faster enemies, Bandits appear in the first night

• Contest: Fastest enemies, Bandits appear during the first night and destroy other ships when shot. Also different font and scoring.

A few words about the game. Atlantis was one of the first games I wanted to remake but I dropped the project due to lack of motivation (it was gonna be in a package with a Missile Command and Exed Exes remake, though that one was solely based on the 2600 version). This one here is completely redone cause I no longer have the files for my old version (other than the screenshot below), graphics or the game, though I tried to imitate the original style I had, with some improvements.

There are things I wasn’t terribly happy about but with the direction I’m taking it, I feel I’ve done the best I could without ruining the game or having to do a completely do-over which would probably cause me to lose motivation for finishing this game entirely (long story on that), so I wanted to do the smaller fixes and push this game along to be released.

#shooter #atari #intellivision #arcade #retro