#severn software

1985 - The Day After is a poorly implemented clone of the Atari game Gravitar, in which the player navigates a series of screens by turning and applying thrust to a craft that is yoked by gravity. It’s nice to look at – the screenshots of colourful pseudo 3D caverns were what prompted me to buy it at the time – but the gameplay is rotten. 8-bit era gaming was frequently challenging but here, a combination of an unresponsive thrust key, over-sensitive turning control, unforgiving inertia and one-touch death creates an experience more akin to Flappy Bird, as the ship meets its firey doom again and again and again before you even leave the first screen.