Planet Bob - Playing Nebulus (C64)

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Hi there!

 

Let's topple some towers for a new "Playing..." article:

 

 

I was actually playing this one for two days on the Wii already, but no matter how much I tried, I could never beat the fourth tower...

 

Your mission in this game is making it past all elevators and obstales to the top of 8 different layouted towers - in order to blow them up. Inbetween the main stages there's a little submarine mini-game where you're shooting helpless fish for some bonus points.

 

Nebulus is another classic example of the cool-graphics-effect-turned-into-game game. In my opinion the rotation effect really stood the test of time and still looks great today. The hardcore try & error gameplay unfortunately not so much.

 

It's pretty frustrating actually. E.g. even once I worked the first two towers out, there was still only about 50% a chance of beating them without dying at least once. That and the high amount of required memorizing would be my major points of critic.

 

Using save-states makes life a lot easier of course:

 

 

BTW: I can recommend the Wii version mentioned above, if you want to give it a try. Emulation is perfect and the controls work very accurate with the Wiimote. About the only flaw is the missing title (loading) screen, but it's not looking good anyway

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another climb it up in the form of "Impossible Mission 2", but first it'll continue with something else.

 

Greetings,

Manuel

 

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