On the latest episode of Down Home Gamin, I discuss a game that was a staple of early childhood. Penetrator, developed by Beam Software of Australia, is a Scramble clone made for the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and C64 in 1982. It has a number of features which set it apart from the many other Scramble clones of its time.
My brain misread the blog title as "Down Home Ganon" and I expected something Zelda related lol
*Update* My notifications DOES say Ganon! I'm not crazy!
For whatever reason, I don't remember seeing Scramble in arcades, and if I did see it, it didn't draw me in like Pac-Man did. Really the first early Konami games I remember seeing in arcades were Gyruss and Time Pilot, and I loved those!
Our family's first computer was the Apple ][+. I have good memories playing games on it like Lode Runner, Spare Change, and Aquatron.
Subscribed. This looks more fun than Scramble. It doesn't look like you need to shoot fuel tanks to refuel your ship. That's a relief.
I remember seeing the TRS80 around in the 80s but I never had one. I didn't know it began in '77. I'll have to add it to my list of 70s systems and games to play. I love that still shot of the whole system, monitor and disc drives. It gives me retro fever.
Were you playing the game outside?
