Lunar City [Commodore 64]

The New Dimension is very proud to present to you Lunar City. This is a fun and challenging space shooting gallery type of game written for the Zzap! 64 Micro Action Covermount. The game was inspired by Atlantis for the ATARI, but Lunar City is slightly different, as you will probably see when you play the game.

Lunar City consists of the following:

• Nicely presented loading bitmap with loading music
• Front end presentation with Drum 'n Bass style music
• End scene presentation
• Hi score table with saver (if playing in disk mode)
• 16 action-packed levels with an increasing level of difficulty
• Arcade style sound effects
• 4 different landscapes
• 8 different aliens (where newer aliens will appear after completing every fourth level).

Game instructions

Lunaris, your home planet has been a peaceful safe haven. That was until a discovery of a giant alien mothership hovering above the planet. It beams out an army of aliens ready for a big mission - to destroy Lunaris by entering Lunar City and bombing all of its defences and radioactive domes (stored on top of the building).  Lunaris activated a shield to protect its city. Unfortunately it makes no match for the aliens's powerful laser beams.

You are our commander. Your task is to defend Lunar City by firing lasers from Lunar City's Sentinels, towards passing aliens. You will have a limited amount of aliens to destroy, and also a limited amount of lasers for each level. 

Lunaris's fate

Lunaris will be destroyed completely if:

• Aliens have destroyed all six reactor domes
• Aliens have destroyed all three sentinels
• Amount of lasers is less than the number of aliens destroyed

Bonuses

Every time you complete a level, you will score a bonus of 100 points per ammo remaining and a further 100 points per dome saved from being shot by the aliens.

There are 16 waves to complete before you have saved Lunaris for good.

Controls

Use or emulate Joystick plugged into port 2.

Directions are as follows:

LEFT = Fire from left sentinel
RIGHT = Fire from right sentinel
UP or FIRE = fire from central sentinel

Other keys:
CONTROL (TAB in VICE V2.4 or higher) = Pause game
BACK ARROW (¬, ` in VICE V2.4 or higher) = Abort game (while game is paused)
SPACEBAR (or fire) = Resume game.

Credits

Programming, sound effects and music by Richard Bayliss
Graphics, sprites and loading bitmap by Hugues (Ax!s) Poisseroux
Level graphics decompression routines by Magnus (Zagon) Lind
IRQ Tape Turbo loader source by Martin Piper

(C) 2023 The New Dimension  
You are welcome to copy this production and host it on your web site, videos, etc. This is providing that everything is free. However, it is not legal to reproduce this software in digital or physical media for sales or marketing purposes without permission from the developers of this production.