Thunder Bird

The New Dimension in co-op with Annwn Games is very proud to present to you Thunder Bird, a Wild West themed sideways push scrolling arcade adventure inspired by a classic arcade title from the 1980s. Thunderbird was an entry that participated in the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 and made it to second place. The game features the following:

• Polished loading bitmap
• New front end presentation
• Western themed music
• 3 levels of arcade platform action
• In game power ups
• Animated background
• Parallax scrolling
• Compatible with theC64, Ultimate 64, the Commodore 64 Ultimate and also works on NTSC C64s (With a limitation of the score panel visibility).

SCENARIO

Zintkala of the Lakota has lived as an outlaw since the massacr of her tribee by gold miners ten years ago. Now she must return to defeat the demon serpant Unk Cekulaq reawakened ages past.

INSTRUCTIONS

Guide Zintkala through three different stages where she must fight against evil bandits whilst having to avoid getting shot. She must also try to avoid falling into the water, getting bitten by venomous rattlesnakes, avoid getting crushed by rampaging bulls, plus many other enemies and hazards which she will encounter.

On starting the game you will start at the old mining town. Your first task will be to get to the train station and clamber on board the train. Once you are on board the train, you must reach the destination to the Eastern Caves. Once you have reached the caves you must reach the inner cave and fight Unk Cekula and destroy it with many shots.  

CONTROLS

You can control Zintkala by using a joystick in port 1 or port 2. When Zintkala is walking, she can shoot the direction she is facing. When jumping she can shoot diagonally. Search the barrels for power ups as these can improve the firing range for Zintkala giving her better capabilities to shoot enemies withing her range.

S - Detonate dynamite (Kills all enemies on screen)

RUN STOP - Pause game

Q (While paused) - Abort game

CREDITS

Game design, graphics, in game enhancements and sound effect by Eleanor Burns

(Created using the Right-Left scrolling version of Sideways SEUCK by Martin Piper with aid of a machine code monitor for enhancements)

Front end code and music by Richard Bayliss 

Tape loader system by Martin Piper

Loading bitmap by Carl Mason

(C)2025 The New Dimension and Annwn Games

This production is freeware. You are welcome to copy and share this production, providing that it is done for free. You may not reproduce or copy this production for any marketing/sales/profit use without permission from the game author. 

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