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Oids Atari ST Review: Gravity, Rescue and a Construction Kit From 1987
FTL’s other founding classic: Thrust-style physics, androids to rescue and a planet editor years ahead of its time.
Author: Sal Benedetto
From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
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Llamatron 2112 Atari ST Review: Robotron, Rebuilt by a Llama Farmer
Jeff Minter’s shareware arena classic: save the dudes, fear the Grunts, and enjoy the purest panic on the ST.
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Another World Atari ST Review: Ninety Minutes That Rewrote the Rules
Eric Chahi’s wordless cinematic masterpiece on one of its birth machines: lethal, lyrical and authored to its bones.
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The Chaos Engine Atari ST Review: Two Mercenaries, One Broken Timeline
The Bitmap Brothers’ cooperative swansong for the ST: six mercenaries, a mad Baron’s England and the machine’s finest two-player blast.
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Gods Atari ST Review: The Platformer That Refused to Run
The Bitmap Brothers’ marble-slow, secret-stuffed action adventure: a siege disguised as a platform game, worth meeting on its own terms.
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Xenon 2: Megablast Atari ST Review: The Shooter With a Shop and a Soundtrack
Bomb the Bass on the title screen, Colin in the shop and the Bitmap Brothers’ chrome everywhere: the ST’s defining shooter.
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Speedball 2 Atari ST Review: Brutal Deluxe, Chrome-Plated Violence
The Bitmap Brothers’ future sport at its peak: a steel ball, a star target and the ST’s greatest two-player game.
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Stunt Car Racer Atari ST Review: Eight Tracks in the Sky, Zero Forgiveness
Geoff Crammond’s elevated racing classic: jumps, cracked chassis and the finest driving feel on the machine.
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Falcon Atari ST Review: The F-16 Sim That Treated You Like a Trainee Pilot
Spectrum HoloByte’s stern masterpiece of systems simulation: working radar, lethal SAMs and a manual that is the course.
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Carrier Command Atari ST Review: Admiral on the Map, Pilot in the Cockpit
Realtime Games’ island war before real-time strategy had a name: logistics above, dogfights below, one carrier against another.