|  Aster | | Title: | Aster | | Category: | Game/Platformer | | Release Date: | 1993-07 | | Language: | English | | Size: | 64K | | Device Req.: | Disk only (1 side) | | Machine: | PAL Only | | Code Type: | Machine code | | Distribution: | Freeware | | Game ending type: | Has an end, game ends | | |  | | Code by: | KiCHY | | Credited (Additional code by): | Coby | | Notes: | Guide the hero across 5 levels to save the galaxy. To make progress, you must touch the blue vases to open doors. |
User Rating: 5.1/10 (4 votes)
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| | Description | Announced as forthcoming release in the scrolltext intro of Dynamoid Original, "Aster" is a multiscreen platform game in one disk side, with graphics taken from The Sacred Armour Of Antiriad for the sprites, and from First Samurai for the background elements.
Once the game was finished, it was sent to Nukeman, to be spread as freeware or shareware. However, this did not happen. KiCHY later sold his Plus/4. In the 2000s, he tried to find the game on his old disks, unfortunately with no success. In 2024, a copy of the game was found by BSZ, it is now preserved forever.
It used to display a multicolor character set with more than 4 colors per character. The player was the guy from Antiriad without the armour, moved it by character boundaries but XORed with the background graphics. The enemies had 4 animation frames and they moved pixel by pixel, over the black background with no masking. There were some animated chars on screen like waterfall and so on, and the gameplay was a simple 'avoid enemies - jump'n'run - reach the exit'.
About the title: since KiCHY had no ideas, he took a dictionary and opened it at a random page and pointed to a random word. A flower called "aster" is what he ended up picking. |
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| | Cheats - How do I use cheats? | | >6187 AD | Unlimited lives (enter in emulator monitor) |
| >2096 A9 | Invulnerability (enter in emulator monitor) |
| G 1FA0 | Win current level (enter in emulator monitor) |
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