Games - I Wanna be a Rebelstar Raider!
Spectrum 48K classic Rebelstar by Julian Gollop is without a doubt my favourite computer game of all time. I've recently been poking around at its predecessor, Rebelstar Raiders (don't get the two confused!) as part of my research for the article I'm putting together on Rebelstar for OVS4.
It has many of the features of Rebelstar in more primitive forms, but the background is something of a treat, for anyone who wants a blast of SF nostalgia. It's a shame Julian didn't produce board, roleplaying and wargames for a living instead of computer games, our loss, not his I expect!
I own a copy of Rebelstar Raiders, one of my all time greatest car boot fair finds, but I haven't played it much as I don't have a spectrum and I've never had a working emulation copy till now. Well, that's changed as I've found one on this site, simply follow the link and search for Rebelstar in the Games Category along the top bar, once on the Rebelstar page, click on the picture to get a download of the game and manual.
Anyone who wants to play a game via e-mail should get in touch, it's a tad frustrating and not quite the game Rebelstar is, but an interesting slice of history all the same.
http://www.goodolddays.net
It has many of the features of Rebelstar in more primitive forms, but the background is something of a treat, for anyone who wants a blast of SF nostalgia. It's a shame Julian didn't produce board, roleplaying and wargames for a living instead of computer games, our loss, not his I expect!
I own a copy of Rebelstar Raiders, one of my all time greatest car boot fair finds, but I haven't played it much as I don't have a spectrum and I've never had a working emulation copy till now. Well, that's changed as I've found one on this site, simply follow the link and search for Rebelstar in the Games Category along the top bar, once on the Rebelstar page, click on the picture to get a download of the game and manual.
Anyone who wants to play a game via e-mail should get in touch, it's a tad frustrating and not quite the game Rebelstar is, but an interesting slice of history all the same.
http://www.goodolddays.net
posted by paulvonscott at 9:50 PM
1 Comments:
Did you ever try Laser Squad? was a kind of sequel to Rebelstar- with 'better' graphics and IIRC some of the same characters, but as stick men instead of dots.
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