Petscii Robots

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Petscii Robots

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heh, 8-bit guy rules. :D

the game is ported to most retro-platforms. awesome, awesome...
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I just finished fifth map and must say, it is very playable game. I cannot compare with other platforms yet, but i am very happy with version for ZX Spectrum :) (i am playing mostly 02 - GFX Robots.tap)

Petscii robots is something between action game, maybe dungeon crawl and sokoban with very weird esthetics. But in summary it works perfectly together.

And soundtracks from Shiru are just perfect. 10$ well spent.
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To be fair it was designed originally for the Commodore PET (which is a text only green screen machine) and then ported to other systems.

Other systems (including the Speccy) get a colour graphical version as well as a version with a simulation of the PETSCII 'graphics'.

It does seem a little pricey for a download only Speccy game, but it's inline with the other versions.
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this is an underrated game... It reminds me Laser Squad... :)
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