North Star

Information

Genre

Arcade - Platformer (Scrolling)

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick, Keyboard

Players

1

Resolution

Low

Programmer(s)

[unknown]

Graphic Artist(s)

Kerry, Steve

Game design

O'Brien, John

Musician(s)

Daglish, Ben

Sound FX

[unknown]

Year

1988

Publisher

Gremlin Graphics

Developer

Sentient

Software

English

License

Commercial

ST Type

ST, STe, TT, 0.5MB

Number of Disks

1, Single Sided

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 4.4/10 · Votes: 7 · Downloads: 2,382 · Hits: 7,666

Screenshots (6)

Trivia (1)

Book / Magazine Reviews (2)

Génération 4 · Eté 88, 1988 · Rating: 70 %

ST Action · July, 1988 · Rating: 42%

Comments (3)

• IntoTheVerticalBlank — 1 Jul 2022

  A game that should be remembered more fondly that it seems to be. A lot poor magazine reviews hide the fact that Gremlin had created quite a nice ST 8-bit+ console game here. The colors are saturated in that early Amstrad to ST conversion way, but the action is furious, the scrolling is fast, and the music and SFX are great. It certainly is worth a 2nd look and one I'll be going back to play more. You start out with robotic arm as your only weapon and the deaths come cheap and fast. Once you get the hang of it, it becomes a blast to play and you get better weapons.

• Jeff D. Fulton — 11 Dec 2021

  Quite posibly this is one to take a second look at. fIt has all the trappings of an Amstrad port to the ST...but the Speed of the ST makes this a really fun game with good grahics, sound, games play...and some cheap deaths. 8bitchip has a good cheat version.

• Dma-Sc — 18 Aug 2019

  That's one game i kept coming back to. Although i found it quite hard, and not very fun. Go Figure.