Wow. What a beautiful remake. I never played or even heard of the original gsme. Anyone know if it’s available in an archive for the c-64. Was it ever ported to any other system?
played it on zx spectrum, a LOT great game. computer hide and seek. always on the move, trying to stay ahead of the sentinel or it's sentries.
what amused me at the time was that there are 10,000 levels loaded in from tape and within a few weeks of it being released magazines had accumulated codes for all of them from readers playing at home iirc. pre internet that was a lot of information gathering.
I played it on the speccy too. It looked incredible when you read that it had 10000 levels. And also recalled that after a month or so all the codes were appearing on the magazines at the time. Beautiful absorbing game.
The Wikipedia article states, “The Sentinel has no ending sequence; upon completion of the last level, the player is looped back to level 1. When questioned about this, Crammond said he never thought anyone would go so far as to finish the game”
I played it on my Spectrum and Amiga. It’s one of those games that has a particular feeling, it always struck me as lonely and a little weird. TIL it was written originally for the Beeb. Also I didn’t know it was released as “The Sentry” in the US.
There’s some download links for the C64 on this page at the very bottom, scroll down quickly to avoid gameplay spoilers! Looks like there are other remakes linked there too.
what amused me at the time was that there are 10,000 levels loaded in from tape and within a few weeks of it being released magazines had accumulated codes for all of them from readers playing at home iirc. pre internet that was a lot of information gathering.
That’s a fun reward!
There’s some download links for the C64 on this page at the very bottom, scroll down quickly to avoid gameplay spoilers! Looks like there are other remakes linked there too.
https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/The_Sentinel
So you're saying the its a more fluid Myst for the C64/Amiga/Beeb.