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Armalyte Commodore 64 Thalamus John Kemp 1988 Andy Haywood When this game first hit the C64 - released by the Newsfield-owned software house, Thalamus - collective jaws dropped. Never before had such superb graphics being married to equally fabulous gameplay. This was officially the sequal to 'Delta' but was in a completely different vein to its inferior forerunner. |
 See that big thing on the right? Shoot the f**k out of it ... |
 Graphics: 98%  |
Sound: 85% |
Gameplay: 96% |
Overall: 97% |
| Fantastic. Brilliant use of colour and the scrolling is ultra-smooth. Amazingly, the action never slows down, despite the huge number of sprites that litter the screen endevouring to bring about your destruction. | Typical shoot-em-up sound effects, nothing more, nothing less. The music's quite funky though. | Difficult but not unfair. Navigating the tightly-packed levels will test the most ardent games-player, but the important thing is that you'll WANT to keep coming back for more. And far superior to the memory test that was Delta. | The finest shooter to grace the C64 in the machine's history, it even puts many arcade games to shame. Apart from R-type of course. |
R E C O M M E N D E D A L T E R N A T I V E S Katakis • Delta • Salamander O T H E R F O R M A T S R-Type (Arcade) • R-type (Arcade) • R-ty-you got the message yet?  -- What do you think of this game? Rate it!! -- Commodore 64 Main Page
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