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Glory Hunters is an all-new action-adventure RPG for the original Game Boy console where you progress by obtaining achievements that grant glory points.

Glory points are the main currency within the game, and they are mainly used to open paths and move forward in this world. You will find several glorious deeds that award glory points, such as gathering materials, aiding the townsfolk in various quests, or diving into dungeons and caves to defeat different kinds of mobs.

Players can freely choose where to go and discover different zones with unique minigames, enemies, and eccentric characters!

You can also upgrade your health, buy more items, and even hire people to help you on this quest. You are free to spend glory points to create your very own experience!

Be careful on how to spend your glory points, though; the next achievement might become harder to get.

Attempt to save the land by awakening one of four gods and cleanse the shameful monsters that lurk in the shadows.

Created to run on Game Boy consoles. You can join the hunt by playing on original hardware, any emulation device or Steam!

Become a glory hunter and remember pain is temporary, but glory is eternal!

Pledge here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/98220550/glory-hunters-a-unique-game-boy-action-adventure-rpg

The year is 2021, and thanks to AGD & his son Nate, Dave Sloan has fulfilled a childhood ambition to make a game for the ZX Spectrum.
He longs to go back to the 80s so he can give his younger self the tools to make some fun little Speccy platform games, so he sets about building a time machine.

The fabric of time is not something to be trifled with however and Dave being Dave, the time machine goes a little wonky.
Due to a misunderstanding relating to the metric system, Dave & Nate get sucked into the time vortex and for reasons unknown the only thing that will save them is collecting 42 Maguffinanium crystals.

This is where you come in, can you save our intrepid duo and prevent an irreparable tear in the space-time continuum?

More here https://www.phoenixware.co.uk/product/forward-to-the-past/

Cassette 50 was an infamous collection of games published by Cascade in 1983 and an early example of shovelware, marketed on the basis of sheer quantity rather than the quality or playability of its games. So Phoenix Ware and The RVG Squad created a competition in the hope of creating a brand new compilation tape â€" with all proceeds after costs to be donated to charity, (this is guaranteed to be a minimum of £5 for every tape sold) â€" featuring games by C64 developers of all levels of experience, focusing on great gameplay in a mini-game format while still retaining the look or feel of a Cassette 50 game, such as it was!

The Competition ran from December 8th 2020 to March 31st 2021, we was amazed with the level of interest, lots of very good games all having to be created within the confines of some very hard and challenging rules. For those of you that know about coding, you will understand what we mean if you look at the competition page, so with that said, everyone of these games (56 in total) deserve there place on this tape.

More herehttps://www.phoenixware.co.uk/product/cassette-50-collectors-usb-tape/

Chiller 2 by Cosine Systems is a multi-level single-screen platform game inspired by the Mastertronic game Chiller.

The aim of the game is to collect 20 crosses on each level while avoiding all sorts of nasty ghouls, witches, and critters that drain your energy when you make contact with them. While you’re at it, make sure you also look out for where you stand as each level is littered with poisonous mushrooms that will also result in a loss of energy.

There are 12 challenging creepy levels for you to complete so I hope you are not afraid of the dark.

More here https://www.phoenixware.co.uk/product/chiller-2/

Towards the end of the 11th century, a young crusader named Sir Ababol from Manchester starts off on a venture to Jerusalem. The brave knight travels across the ever-green prairies of French Britain and climbs the infinite heights of the Pyrenees to arrive at Alcoraz River.

Sir Ababol witnesses the courage of St. George from Cappadocia against the infidels and is so astonished from what he sees that he stumbles over a rock, falling into the Alcoraz River that carries him to the Monegros Desert.

When he wakes up, Sir Arabol realises that he has lost his sword. Fearing that his journey to Jerusalem has come to an end, he searches around for the sword when he comes across a farmer tending to his crops.  When he asks the farmer about the whereabouts of his sword, our knight is directed to a land full of Ababol flowers. Sir Ababol is confused but believes the red flowers may be tied to recovering his sword and decides to collect them, hoping to then continue his journey to Jerusalem.

More here https://www.phoenixware.co.uk/product/sir-ababol-nes-om-edition/

Metamorphosis is a game about evolving. You start as a spider which is the lowest lifeform in the game. The aim is to evolve into a human in order to complete the game. Increase your energy by eating worms, as your energy level increases, you will evolve into a higher lifeform. Hitting enemies a few times will make them devolve to a lower lifeform until their energy level is zero and then they will end as a worm. The screens are a kind of ecosystem, enemies attacking each other, running away and evolve/devolve.

You have to collect 3 objects and bring them to the central room with the circles. In this room, there is a location to drop the objects into the circles. When all 3 objects are in the circles, a pink teleport to the next level appears.

There are 3 levels to explore. To obtain some objects, you first have to get a Combat room key. If you got the key, a black teleport appears somewhere in the map to enter a combat room.

After entering the combat room, you have to kill all enemies before an object appears.

At the bottom, there is an energy bar. This bar shows your current energy level. Your energy level can be raised by eating worms and is decreased by getting hit by spit or toxic drops. The dots indicate the max energy level at a certain stage. The maximum energy level is increased after you drop an object in the circles. When you have a Combat room key, a small key symbol appears on the left side of the energy bar. If you have an object, a red dot is shown on the left side of the energy bar.

More here https://www.phoenixware.co.uk/product/metamorphosis/

The year is 2033; scientific advances in quantum physics research results in an accidental opening of an interdimensional portal. Beings from parallel worlds have exploited the wormhole â€" with catastrophic results for Earth. Only a noble warrior from the future can fight for humankind and avenge the destruction wreaked upon it so far. It is now or never, it is time to Fight for Vengeance.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/fight-for-vengeance/

The game tells the story of Pineapple Kid, a courageous pineapple that lives in a distant land where pineapples live a happy life. The pineapples always dreamt of having a happier life in a place called Pineapple Paradise. The legendary Tower that can grant the passage to Pineapple Paradise is rumored to appear once in a 100 years but no one dared to challenge the Tower, and so the legend became only a tale. Until one day, Pineapple Kid stood up and made a journey to the Tower. This time the player (You!) can help out Pineapple Kid reach Pineapple Paradise!

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/pineapple-kid/

Baaary: Mutton Commando is a cyborg sheep from a distant future who must ensure the safety of mutton-kind by defending the fields from an invasion of Traazkists led by the evil combat lizard, Traazk. Armed with a basic plasma spitter, Baaary is teleported into fields on various planets where he must destroy Traazkists and collect charges to prime the gateway and clear the level.

Firing your plasma spitter, moving and colliding with meanies will consume energy. Standing still or shooting a meanie allows Baaary to regain energy. The more energy Baaary has, the faster he will move and the score awarded for eliminating a meanie will be higher.

    If his energy gets too high, Baaary will burn out.
    If his energy drops too low, Baaary will run out of power.

Burning out, running out of power, falling down one of the many holes of doom or jumping into orbit will end the game.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/ewe-woz-ere-deluxe-edition-c64/

CyberSphere is an icon-driven game developed with text-adventures in mind.  Explore a cyberpunk-themed world spreading across a fictitional town, its
undergrounds and the outerspace above it to discover its secrets. Traverse the voxels-made environment using an icon-based mechanics istead
of typing text.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/cybersphere-collectors-edition/

You are the inheritor of the royal and prestigious Naud’Ar family. In the pure family tradition, you have been sent to the capital to complete your education and so be able to carry on the family tradition. This also allows you to make friendships with other young people from great families. A letter arrived, telling you of a great tragedy, your whole family was decimated months ago by a curse and now the castle is home to evil creatures. You, the only heir must search the family mansion to find the golden scepter and the crown and ring which are the marks of the family inheritance and which will allow you to lift the curse and recover your throne. Good luck on your journey.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/throne-legacy/

The fall of the great Angarth Empire has thrown High Toro into provincial warfare; as regional barons struggle to reunite fractious kingdoms.  Rulers rush to reunite the land under a single banner, fighting over the prosperous ports of the east floodlands, exploring the highlands and deserts, and hunting for the hidden temple of the Angrath Lords.  As a hopeful king you must use your villagers to explore the lands, control other kingdoms and overcome the many battles ahead.

Slayers of High Toro is a game of intense turn-based strategy.  Your objective is to conquer enemy kingdoms, by collecting taxes on your land and raising an army for conquest.  On each turn you move your units on a hexagonal map, buy units and forts, explore territory, and defend your kingdoms from attack.

Slayers brings advanced 21st century AI and quick-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay to the Amiga.  With 9 procedurally generated game modes, hundreds of thousands of maps, as well as single and mutiplayer deathmatch.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/slayers-of-high-toro/

Two years have passed since Yojar was defeated by Sophia. She was granted by the Emperor the title of Princess of Xixerella and now she rules her small country promoting peace and tolerance. However, people are lately disappearing without trace. Investigations carried out by secret agents establish a connection of this fact with the secretive Society of the Inner Light, behind which an obscure entity known as Grim Reaper hides. He exploits the life force of people by turning them into hideous beasts, to boost his might, as well as to build and supply energy to deadly fighting machines, which he plans to unleash in order to take over the whole Empire. An all-out attack is out of the question, since Imperial forces would risk to be annihilated, thus it is Sophia who has to turn to action. She will have to penetrate the tower where the Society has its seat, crossing a dungeon and an underwater passage, finally confronting the Grim Reaper face to face.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/sophia-2/

Aliana is the first Human/Xenoform hybrid from planet Atlas, piloting her spaceship to start her personal war with only the help of her navigation system “aLMa”.

Aliana wants to become the one and only Queen of Races â€" Xenoform and Human â€" and balance them under her rule.  To achieve her objective, Aliana must accomplish three missions in order to purge her realm of every threat. The first one pits her against Alien invaders that overran the human investigation center and massacred every human. The second takes place on Aqueronte, a planet hosting the Alien colony. Finally, the third and final mission sees Aliana aboard the Decoud, a human spaceship transporting Alien specimens.

Will Aliana rise as the Queen in the end?

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/alien-girl/

Fungus 2 is a previously unreleased sequel to the original Fungus game released by Players Software in 1986. Karl Hörnell and Bitmap Soft have worked together to bring you this exclusive and official release. The game is readily available free online and this version is only enhanced for Tape release.

The game is an arcade style game represented in an elevated 2.5-dimensional graphical perspective.

Along with the ability to move left or right across the landscape, you can also move up and down the screen as well as jump up onto ledges and over gaps. To complete each level, you need to collect all the mushrooms and return back to your starting point within a given amount of time.

Along the way, Fungus can pick up bonus bricks to increase the score points and use teleporters to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. Unlike in his first adventure, Fungus has prepared himself with a pistol to help him see off some of the more difficult creatures that he cannot avoid. If Fungus comes in contact with a creature or falls off the island into water or down a chasm, then he loses one of his three lives and respawns back at the starting point.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/fungus-ii/

Bitmap Soft is proud to bring you the third installment of Mr Hairs adventures, this time its Super Hair, again Simon Phipps has returned to do the artwork for the inlay and I think you will agree, its stunning.

The Story

Planet Hairtooine is under attack by the vile mutant Empire!

You are our only hope of obliterating this threat!

Good Luck, SuperHair!

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/super-hair/

THE GARDEN, a pastoral haven. The sun shines, the birds sing, the grass grows and the fruits, vegetables and other creatures live peaceful and happy lives. In this idyllic place live brother and sister Turbo and Nitra Tomato, enjoying the simple life with their friends.

But all is not as it seems…

Turbo Tomato is a high-explosive arena battle game for the Classic Amiga platform.

Take control of Turbo and Nitra Tomato in fast, one or two player co-op arcade action across four non-linear worlds. Use speed and sprouting explosive pods to do battle with increasingly dangerous mutant fruit and vegetable enemies â€" and other things. Gather power-ups and bonus items to increase your abilities and survive to continue the fight. Clear each level of mutants to progress and choose your route forward.

Can you uncover the terrible secret?

Can you save The Garden?

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/turbo-tomato/

The Empire is in danger. A mysterious evil wizard called Yojar has occupied three major regions of it and placed there his tokens of power, in the form of large skulls. Since magic can only be defeated by magic, the Emperor asks the mighty Inner Circle of the small territory of Xixerella for their help. A young sorceress, Sophia, volounteers for the dangerous mission.

In the first three game zones, you must guide Sophia to find the four skulls and throw them, each one at a time, in a magic cauldron to destroy them. In order to proceed, you need to open some magic doors bearing the symbol of a geometrical shape. The door will disappear when Sophia carries an amulet of the same shape of that symbol.

Against Yojar’s minions she can throw projectiles of light and dark mana, but some enemies will be unaffected by a certain shot, other might even be transformed into two other ones. It is up to you to discover their effects! Sophia can also cast a defensive spell â€" the Shield â€" which will make her invulnerable for a short time. Magic is activated through mana; you receive a raw mana point each time you destroy an enemy, and in the Wizard Guild’s Hut you can exchange it for shots, a Shield or an extra life. After liberating the third zone, Sophia can enter Yojar’s dimension. Here the atmosphere is saturated with mana, so you won’t have to worry about running out of it. Your task here will be to find Yojar and defeat him.

Side B Bonus level: This edition features an exclusive bonus level. Your task, as in the main game, will be to find the four skulls and destroy them.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/sophia/

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