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the NES game condensed the battle elements to missiles and hover tanks against ground defenses, none of which can be upgraded. The message area is much larger in the other versions, and placed along the right hand side of the screen, compared to bottom center of the NES game. The NES game allows a single saved game to be stored, compared to up to four on the home computer version. In the NES version only credits are required to buy craft, whereas the original versions require the player to spend money, minerals, fuel and energy (though this varies depending on the difficulty level). Finally, the use of the docking bays is more complex in the home computer versions, which also feature an image of the face of the enemy that grows clearer the closer the player is to completing the game.
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conquered this reviewer's taste". Though in a later 1992 survey of science fiction games in the same magazine it was criticised for not running correctly on faster PC's, with the magazine including the score of one and a half stars out of five for the game.
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and defeat a computer adversary who is trying to do the same. There are four skill levels, each represented by an enemy race, and each featuring a progressively stronger opponent. The more advanced a system is, the more freedom a player has when purchasing
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730:Wesolowski, Leah (June 1991).
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1141:Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
959:Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.
687:"Nintendo NES Cartridge List"
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464:Planetary information screen.
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1002:Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble
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1171:Science fiction video games
871:Back to the Future Part III
622:High Voltage SID Collection
612:The main theme composed by
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16:Not to be confused with
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732:"Life in the Vast Lane"
415:artificial intelligence
988:Acme Animation Factory
714:Game's official manual
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788:"HVSC's Top 100 SIDs"
766:Computer Gaming World
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597:Computer Gaming World
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507:The NES version is a
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1166:Probe Software games
885:Beauty and the Beast
675:. 26 September 2020.
945:The Incredible Hulk
673:"Home - Game Gavel"
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78:Virgin Games
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1097:Extreme-G 2
1012:Other games
899:Judge Dredd
742:17 November
641:"NES Games"
530:Publication
442:atmospheric
438:terraformed
349:David Perry
186:Platform(s)
159:Composer(s)
124:Nick Jones
93:David Perry
88:Designer(s)
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1062:Body Count
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150:"Chronos"
143:Nick Bruty
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1076:Jelly Boy
820:MobyGames
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516:Reception
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447:starships
440:using an
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138:Artist(s)
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815:Overlord
602:Overlord
399:colonies
389:Gameplay
364:Atari ST
340:Overlord
315:Strategy
310:Genre(s)
195:Atari ST
48:Overlord
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878:Alien 3
321:Mode(s)
217:Release
177:"Jimy"
129:"TGMS"
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772:4 July
554:(1992)
543:(1991)
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478:homing
455:mining
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651:(PDF)
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533:Score
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486:hover
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