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| | Blazing Thunder | | Genre | Shoot em Up | Developer | Hi-Tec Software | Publisher | Hi-Tec Software | Released | 1990 | Rating
| Graphics: | 7.0 | Sound: | 7.0 | Gameplay: | 7.0 | Overall: | 7.0 |
| Reviewed by | ndial | Blazing Thunder is a vertical scrolling action shooter that looks pretty much like Ikari Warriors. The game was released for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and the 16bit Amiga and Atari ST. |
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STORY / GAMEPLAY The story takes place somewhere in the future where you find yourself in the middle of a tank battle. There are no outstanding features to the game really. Your main goal is to just control your tank around the levels shooting anything that moves, until you reach the end of the level where a large enemy vehicle awaits (a tank, a chopper etc). The further you advance, the better weapons and power-ups you'll collect. Along your way you must also avoid enemy minefields! The game is quite playable but hard enough to last. It's surely fun for a while but it's not as addictive as Ikari Warriors but that doesn't stop Blazing Thunder from being a great little shooter. GRAPHICS / SOUND The Commodore version has great graphics with a variety of enemies and backgrounds that look like Ikari Warriors. Comparably, the visuals look better on the CPC version, mainly due to the better color palette of the CPC hardware, while the C64 manages better scrolling and larger playable area. The sound on the C64 is equally good, with a variety of cannon and machine-gun firing effects along with explosions but again, no music at all. | |
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| Commodore 64/128/Plus4CPU: C64 MOS Technology 6510 1.02MHz (NTSC version), 0.985MHz (PAL version) / C128-D MOS 8502 2MHz, Zilog Z80A 4MHz MEMORY: 64 KB or 128 KB RAM Expandable to 320-640 KB / 20KB ROM GRAPHICS: VIC II 16 colors, 320x200 (2 unique colors in each 8x8 pixel block), 160x200 (3 unique colors + 1 common color in each 4x8 block), 8 hardware sprites, Smooth scrolling SOUND: MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID, 3-channel synthesizer with programmable ADSR envelope, 8 octaves
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| VIC20: 16-colors YPbPr palette (16 on screen) | | C64/128: 16-colors YPbPr palette (16 on screen) | | C-16,Plus/4: 121-colors YPbPr palette (16 on screen) | |
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