About This Game
Memlog Hunter.10/thmw1:
âLost in space. Surrounded. Strange structures that build themselves â hive-like. And at their core, alien starcells... Must get home. Back to Hunterâs Moon. Must... survive! Am attacking now â full thrust â cannons locked in â FIRE!â Little do you know what you face: over 180 levels of galactic mayhem. Hope you are a CLEVER psychoblaster â or else...'
Originally released in 1987,
Hunter's Moon
is a strategic shoot 'em up set in deep space. Beautifully presented and thoughtfully designed, the game became an instant classic thanks to its measured balance of strategic planning and psychotic blasting. Boasting one of the earliest uses of procedurally-generated content in a computer game,
Hunter's Moon
pushed the boundaries of the genre and helped redefine what a shoot 'em up could be.
Hunterâs Moon Remastered
is a fully remastered, overhauled, and updated version of the seminal C64 shoot âem up. The game has been remastered for C64 cartridge and boasts a host of amazing new features including over 50 new levels, 5 new star systems, new level types, new music, new playing modes, stunning intro and outro sequences, built-in level editor, and enhanced presentation including foreign language support.
After flying your trusty ship
Hunter
too close to a black hole, you find yourself lost in space on the wrong side of the galaxy, surrounded by sprawling, hive-like cities. At the core of each city lie mysterious alien
Starcells
â these contain valuable navigational data and must be collected to plot a course back home.
The aim of each level is to blast through the hive and grab the Starcells, a task made more challenging by the invincible
Worker
cells which patrol the cities repairing any damage inflicted. These Workers also bring the hive's defenses to life, causing them to spew deadly spores that can only be resisted by using your ship's trusty
Perma-Shields
.
The game features over 180 levels spread across 21 star systems. When
