Zamzara Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]
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Developed by Jukka Tapanimäki and published by Rack It Hewson in 1988.
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Released by Hewson in 1988, Zamzara is a horizontal shoot 'em up where the player assumes control of an alien warrior who must escape from a research complex before a time-bomb detonates and destroys the facility. Along the route to freedom, you must locate and collect 20 gene bottles that are strewn throughout the game.
The game itself is divided into multiple screens, each of which will have one or more exits to a different screen. Each of these sections is inhabited by all manner of alien adversaries that are determined to prevent your escape. Whether it's a static sentry gun or a fireball-spewing mutant, every enemy is lethal and must be approached with extreme caution.
Fortunately, you remembered to pack a veritable arsenal of weaponry to help despatch the foes that you'll be facing. These include your trusty laser rifle, which comes with an unlimited amount of ammunition, to trip mines and lasers that ricochet off walls, floors and just about every other surface. It's up to you to discover which weapon is best suited to beating enemies on each screen, but be warned: your special weapons have a limited number of uses, so don't be too frivolous in their use. Occasionally, you will find an ammunition pack that will restock the supply of one particular weapon type, but these are few and far between, so conserving ammo should always be foremost in your mind.
Although the main objective of the game is to locate your ship and escape, you must collect all of the gene bottles in the game to get the "good" ending message. I had to backtrack through a number of screen near the end of the video to get the gene bottles that I'd left in an earlier screen and nearly ran out of time...
The game features some excellent graphics and some super-smooth scrolling. For a game made mostly by one person, this is an impressive effort to say the least. The main player sprite is well animated and even rotates properly when changing directions, rather than instantly flipping the sprite's direction.
Charles Deenen from Maniacs of Noise produced some decent title and hi-score music and rounds off what already feels like a polished product. Although the main game only features sound effects, all of the weapons sound great and enemies explode with suitably rumbly explosions.
The one sticking point with the game is just how darn tough it is. Many of the enemies spew out waves of projectiles that must be quickly destroyed (or avoided altogether) and I quickly found that my trigger finger started to ache. Whilst it's a blessing that you at least have a health bar that allows you to take a few hits before dying, the enemies will sap it extremely quickly; this is a game that you'll need to continually practice at before you'll come close to beating it.
Despite this, it's difficult to complain about a game this polished, especially when considering it was originally released on budget for a paltry £2.99. There are also those of us who got to play the game for no money at all since it was released for free on the Power Pack tape of Commodore Format (issue 9)!
Zamzara might be hard as nails, but it's definitely worthy of your attention. You might just want to have a spare joystick handy for when the fire button breaks...
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Off sick from school in 1991 playing this on a 10inch CRT drinking a mug of lemsip - that's livin'!
"For a game made mostly by one person, this is an impressive effort to say the least." This pretty much sums up everything. Awesome gameplay. And awesome programming skills for Mr. Jukka Tapanimäki. His sprite multiplexer works flawless.
this one was very good..the music and graphics...i was 10..now im 41..still playing this game....really ..artwork
I remember the freebee on Commodore Format! Always had good games.
@mrchoobly2409
Жыл бұрын
Same here bro. Coming home from the shops with latest Commodore Format was a beautiful thing.
@avastaley3379
Ай бұрын
Oh my god me too!! That’s how I got this game!! Oh wow this feels so weird
My brother and myself spent hours playing this one. Favorite C64 game definitely
Everything is PERFECT about this game. Loved it then, love it now....
I remember buying this for 40dkk, which is around 6.25 usd, in a small photo developer/camera shop, which was one of the only places they sold video games in my city. My friend and I loved the title music so much, we recorded a full tape of it. I also remember my dad breaking the joystick playing this, trying to move left faster. It took a while to forgive that. Definitely one of the best and challenging games I had for the C64.
That Soundtrack! I remember it still.... after all those years.
I just cant believe how awesome this music is, it's unfathomable.
it's so weird that zamzara(잠자라) means 'go to sleep' in korean.
This is beautifully smooth. Great sound effects and animation as well.
This looks incredibly slick
Pro skills Superb game, graphics, ideas etc
The best rendition.
Holly shit,only one man :D
very well played
I miss this game loads! 7:42 Hangon lemme turn on my autofire hax! 🖤 (loved the vid, thanks!) I think my favourite part watching it might have been noting how similar our weapon selections often were! I also watched the whole run thinking 'oh god, was child-me an idiot for doing all those extra levels and finding this game so hard?!'... Then I got to the last mad-dash for bottles at the end. Some super-metroid race against the clock stuff right there!! Haha!
23 secs to go! Wow!
i quite like the look of this.
A game with very nice graphic ad sounds. I must to play righr now:)
Boy this takes me back... Title screen is creepy do 😄
Reminds me a slight bit of The Plague for the Amiga, where every level has sections with certain enemies.
I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED
I remember this game being only £2.99, which was incredible considering there were tons of far worse games costing £9.99 or more.
pretty nice game
animation is out of this world how that is possible on c64!!!amazing computer!!!!!master of 2d back in the days!!!!
Wait, this isn't a Thalamus game? It always reminded me of Hawkeye.
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays
4 жыл бұрын
No - it was published under Hewson Consultant's Rack It label (budget games)
I want to like this one more but found the enemies to be a bit too tanky and have too similar attack patterns for my liking, especially considering the time limit. At least there's options even before the game starts to mitigate this problem though. That said, is it just me or are the main protagonist's sprites kinda cute? Especially the way he sometimes opens his mouth, almost like he's yawning or talking
i bet the team that made in this game is the same of the Ork team on amiga
@ZEUSDAZ
9 жыл бұрын
HOKMAPH STORE Looks more like an Atari 800xl game with the metallic looking graphics tbh.
@HOKMAPHSTORE
9 жыл бұрын
ZEUSDAZ - THE UNEMULATED RETRO GAME CHANNEL You mean Ork or Zamzara? :D
Why at 17:50 you suddenly start going backwards?
@kevinedward6132
3 жыл бұрын
I think he went back to clear that dead-end path and collect the weapon powerup there. Saved it for later basically.
@francescodeg
3 жыл бұрын
@@kevinedward6132 I think that he wanted just to show off!! I never actually made it before the timeout!! Awesome player!
the graphic for this game is inspired from DRACONUS and ZYBEX