New AGA game for Amiga in 2019! and a twist or two on the top down shooter too! welcome to SkillGrid
YES believe it Amiga Fans! The long time Amiga and Commodore 64 developer Simone Bevilaqua who runs RETREAM and brought us great new original games like BOH, HUENISON, KOG for the Amiga and MAH & Quod Init Exit (QIE) for the C64 has done it again for our AGA, PAL Amiga 1200, 4000 & CD32's!!!
SkillGrid very briefly is a good old relentless rack up score vertical top down shoot em up with loads of power ups (blue cells) & power downs (yellow cells) and to keep things spiced up there's some hybrid cells (50/50 blue/yellow) and a few UFO (undefined cells) to boot. You can see some great screen shots and gameplay video in the links provided above but I just want to emphasize the importance of opening up the beautiful SkillGrid manual (either physical or PDF copy) and yes READING it lol Ya I know I'm guilty of the 'pff I've played a million of these games so I'll just figure it out as I go' and I'm sure if you do this ..yet again :-) you'll still have fun but once you experience the frantic pace by hitting an acceleration or boost cels (purposely or not hehe) you'll understand the importance of reading the manual to get the most out of the game and also your high score ! Every Amiga user with an AGA equipped miggie should buy this new one of a kind game for our favourite computer and OS and support our developers in 2019 !!!
Here's what is included in my Deluxe package:
Front of package:
Front of package |
Rear of package
Package open:
RETREAM & RGCD post cards:
post cards |
Cool pins for kids school bags :-)
Poster framed on mancave wall!
SkillGrid running on my X1000 via E-UAE
what the mancave looks like at time of this post less the A1200 & C64 section that is