Earthlight
Earthlight is a shooter featuring parallax scrolling and shadow effects, a novelty for the Spectrum.
Earthlight is a shooter developed by Nexus, released 31 December 1988 on ZX Spectrum.
What Earthlight is
Earthlight is a shooter game developed by Nexus and released in 1988. It was published by Firebird Software. It is available on ZX Spectrum only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player takes the role of an alien explorer from the star-system of Arcturus, called Slaatn, who has been drawn off-course by a beam of energy from Earth and has had to make a landing on the moon. Slaatn must neutralise the box-like transmitters and thus eliminate the force field.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Earthlight launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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