Nebulus

INFO
Nebulus is a platform game with some distinctively unique features. Your character, a small frog-like, green creature called Pogo, is on a mission to destroy eight towers that were built onto the sea surface.

STORY / GAMEPLAY
As Pogo, you are spawned via a submarine and have to climb from the bottom finding your to the top of each tower. During gameplay, Pogo always remains at the centre of the screen with horizontal movements causing the screen to scroll in a "three-dimensional" circular motion, thus turning the tower around. The towers are cylinder shaped and have ledges on their outside, either horizontal forming stairs or connected via elevators. Along your way there are several enemies (Aliens) flying or jumping around (mostly bouncing balls) and upon collision they will instantly send you at a lower ground or directly into the sea. It must be pointed that there are a few platforms that cannot bear your weight so they easily break and Pogo falls all the way down. Note that there is a underwater bonus game featured in-between the levels, which is a nice horizontal scroller shooting fish and collecting bonus. Although the gameplay is quite interesting (and unique), Nebulus is among the most difficult games to play so I think that the 3 lives given are way too short to survive on a time-limited quest!

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The Amiga version is a is a port from the ST and almost similar to the Atari ST version, with greatly animated sprites, but better frame-rate and a few more colors on screen (50+ colors). As with the ST and Archimedes versions, you get "rotational" 3D scrolling with precise hidden-surface removal running at 25 frames per second and multi-layer parallax scrolling on underwater levels at about 50 frames per second here! Impressive that is! As far as the sound, the game here offers a nice sampled introductory tune and some high-quality sampled SFX with watery splashes and gunshot sounds, but unfortunately there is no music during gameplay!

GAMEPLAY SAMPLE VIDEO
On our video below you may watch the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64/128 and Atari ST versions of the game.