Question
This is one for gamers from the PC's CGA era. It's a game I remember playing as a kid on my Dad's WYSE PC (Had a green monochrome CGA display, 5.25" floppy drive and 20MB hard drive!!)
Game description
It's a puzzler/platformer, where you control an alien looking for parts to fix his ship. You can move left, right, jump and after picking up a pistol a few screens after starting you can shoot (until the pistol runs out of ammo).
The game is divided up into screens, you have to reach the left/right of your current screen to move to the next one.
There are enemies in the game that kill you on contact, you are able to kill them by shooting them.
You are able to pick up items in the game. I remember there being drinks you could have, some would kill you, others would swap the controls round for a time.
Also you had a health/air/power (One of those) level, which slowly go lower as you played the game. If it ran out it was game over.
I thought the name of the game was Galactix - but I can't find anything on the internet to support this.
Above is a mock-up of how I remember the starting screen for the game. You start standing in front of a large rocket, the one you have to recover parts for. The right hand column of the screen is used to show inventory and health information.
Any ideas?
Answer
The game is Galactix. It was a free game that came with the September 1988 issue of PcPlus.
For your viewing pleasure: http://youtube.com/watch?v=h1t01JMvHXg
Heres a screenshot:
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