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Interactive Documentary “Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story” Coming To PC, Consoles In March | #RetroGaming #Xbox #PlayStation #NintendoSwitch #RetroGames

Superzapper recharge… Publisher Digital Eclipse recently revealed that Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, the second interactive documentary in the Gold Master Series, will release for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch on 13 March. This special collection allows players to explore Jeff Minter’s catalogue of groundbreaking games with pixel-perfect recreations of many of them. These also…

‘Gridrunner’

[ATARI 8-BIT / C64 / VIC-20] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1983]

“Gridrunner is a series of shoot 'em up games written by Jeff Minter/Llamasoft. The original Gridrunner was first published for the Commodore Vic 20 in 1982, and ported to various 8-bit computer platforms. It is the developer's longest running series, and remains one of his most enduringly popular, with eight titles released between 1982 and 2018.

(...)Llamasoft released Gridrunner in 1982 for the unexpanded VIC-20. The game was written over the course of a single week, which Minter refers to as "the best week of work I've ever done." Although it draws its inspiration from the arcade game Centipede with the concept of a snake-like enemy descending the screen through a series of obstacles (mushrooms in centipede, pods in Gridrunner) it plays much faster. Versions of the game appeared for several of the home computers of the early 1980s.” ~Wikipedia

Llamasoft Working to Revive Minotaur Project Games

The two-man crew of Llamasoft has been busy lately with Polybius and Tempest 4000, but while Giles works on the last pass of bug-fixing Jeff Minter has a tiny bit of spare time to pursue the next project, which turns out to be a software platform perfect for porting over sprite and tile-based games. 

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Greatest Arcade Shooter Ever Made, Gridrunner++, Now Free on PC

Loads of Cave shooters, Treasure re-releasing Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun, and even an actual sequel in Gridrunner Revolution have all failed to top the pixelicious chaos of Gridrunner++.  

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