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Arcadia is not only a pretty traditional shoot ’em up, but this remake is also a remake of one of the earliest big-selling action games on the ZX Spectrum. There are only two rules; shoot... and survive. Published by Imagine Software in 1982, Arcadia is a Space Invaders style fixed shooter that also took elements of Gorf and Galaxians to create a simple – yet for its time – fast action game. The player controlled a space ship as the aliens scrolled and moved freely down the screen. The game consists of 16 different levels of descending aliens. After level 16 the game looped back to level 1. Advancing to the next level involved staying alive until the timer in the top left corner ticked from 99 to 0, once zero was reached the surviving aliens descended rapidly down the screen. Points awarded per alien destroyed were in line with the current level: Shoot down an alien on level 1 and you were awarded 1 point, roll around the levels and the same alien killed on level 17 was now worth 17 points. . |
