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@tumbleduke I found a working K-Tel Storm Warrior ROM! Overall more exciting than Elite’s. This game obliterated me pretty quickly haha.

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@tumbleduke requested Storm Warrior (Front Runner version), and having never played this, I am not sure which version that is. I found a 1984 release by K-Tel (top image), and a 1988 release by Elite (the remainder of the screens). Tumbleduke, does one of these look right?

I would have gotten more screens of the former one but I couldn’t seem to start the game. As for Elite’s version, the music was very good, graphics fairly good, but I found the game a bit boring because it was kind of...empty. Besides the enemies, there are no sprites aside from an odd turret that flings projectiles at you, and static landscape. Even though the landscapes and backgrounds feel inspired by Ghosts & Goblins, there’s a lack of movement and energy that G&G achieved.

It’s also really amusingly obvious during gameplay that the player character design and animation was heavily based on Palace Software’s Barbarian, which was released the year before. The movement, attack sequences and even the way the enemies fall over dead are very close to Barbarian’s design; however, what it lacks in similarity to G&G it also lacks in similarity to Barbarian - the overall gameplay is stiff and somewhat slow.