![]() ![]() Key ( F1 / Space ) = activate cloak - all keys except F1 and space activate the undestroyable shield.Also some trailers will be left, when a spore has been set free. Space = release strata bomb - this bomb destroys all aliens in sight except for androids.When no horizontal push is done, you will land on the surface of the moon. Through the gravity the flying height needs to be corrected constantly. / = vertical push - to change the flying height push the joystick forwards or backwards.To turn around or to stop, move the joystick into the opposite direction. / = horizontal push - the longer the joystick is held into a direction the higher the speed gets.The shooting direction is normally the viewing direction, but is is also posible to shoot into the opposing direction by holding the joystick into the desired direction for a short time. = shoot - for each upwards or downwards movement of the fire button a small laser impulse is released.F1 = pause (continue with fire button).In this game you need to acquire a feeling for your backpack, because moment of inertia and gravity have an effect on your movement. Hints Controls ĭropzone is played with the joystick and to a small extent with the keyboard. ![]() As the most elements of the game are seemingly put into practise through signs and not sprites, some effects often overlap the enemy, so the game can get confusing. The collision query is unfortunately net very precise. There is no music, but very good sound effects. In the lower part of the screen there is a big radar. The explosion of the character is virtual identical with the one in Wizball. Scrolling and animation of the own character are very fluent. Furthermore there is a cloak-mode for the own man, which makes it invulnerable, as long as the energy lasts. A difference is, that the hostile ships do not try to hijack the people spreading around, but rather drop killer androids. You have to shoot a lot of aliens and bring your own men back to the base. The future of mankind depends on your success.ĭropzone is a Defender clone. You need to bring back safely every survivor and its crystal to the "Dropzone", where the landing platform of the moon base is situated. You were equipped with the newest impulse laser backpack system, which can carry an additional man and can make itself (and its users) invisible and indesctructible for a short time. Now it is your task to protect the humans and their crystals against the murderous descendants from the Jupiter. Not long after the construction of a moon base, the first wave of aliens from Jupiter arrive, to free their moon from the human intruders. The crystals are constantly thrown out of the depth of the moon by the three active volcanoes, that had already been detected in 1980. But the whole sources of crystals on earth were used up during the development of the prototype, so that humans are brought to the hostile second-inmost moon "IO" of Jupiter, where these can be found abundantly and are scattered over the surface. The Tacheon Drive is based on the technique, that rare ionic crystals are bombed with quartz. By this, the relativistic restriction in travels to far away star systems can be overcome. The last scientists developed together a new means of transport, the so-called Tacheon, which should power a star cruiser. Sign up to the mailing list at is the year 2085, the earth is widely destroyed and only a few humans have survived the robot wars. My Time As A Shadow is a post-apocalyptic zombie survival thriller set in the UK.ĭead Formats is a near-future tech-noir sci-fi detective mystery.įleet Rats is the first in the Dropzone mil-SF series, also set in the same universe as the Kassini books. Its sequel, Rise Of The Exiles, was released in January 2023.Ĭonversations With Droids is a collection of 12 short stories set in the same universe: sign up to the mailing list at for a free eBook copy. It offers military sci-fi with character, space opera with a dose of realism and futuristic espionage with a heart, and is a non-stop thrill ride that lovingly references the best retro science fiction. He has stayed immersed in the sci-fi realm ever since, only reluctantly re-materialising in this dimension to walk among you and undertake a variety of menial tasks. ![]() During this time, his mind was exposed to such powerful phenomena as Elite, Blade Runner, Alien, Hitch-Hiker's Guide. He was brought up in the 80s surrounded by dog-eared paperbacks, games that may or may not load and pirated Betamax copies of sci-fi classics. Esa Ortega is a UK-based writer of science fiction. ![]()
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