Cyclone
COSTA’S CEREBRAL FOLLOW-UP
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» ZX SPECTRUM » 1984 » VORTEX SOFTWARE One of my favourite developers from the 8-bit era was Costa Panayi. His games often reminded me of early Ultimate titles in that they were often very slick looking, very polished and very reminiscent of the arcade games I used to enjoy.
Cyclone
is Costa’s follow-up to the excellent
Tornado Low Level
and while it features many similar elements of that earlier game, including impressively smooth scrolling and a distinctive, slightly skewed, slightly overhead perspective, mechanically
Cyclone
is rather different.