Slayer is a side scrolling shooter released by Hewson in 1989 for the Atari ST.
NOTE: A trainer was used for making this capture.
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Now, a gripe I have first of all, is the title. Why is this titled Slayer? I do not think this title makes sense. I would put Slayer along with a platform or slasher type of game, not a space shooter. Not a very creative choice, but the best I can come up with for a title might be Prehistoric Raid based on a couple of the end bosses.
As far as I can tell, the game does not end; once the player reaches the end of level 6, the games goes back to level 1. I did 3 playthrus and had the same behaviour each time.
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Overall, the game looks nice, and performs decently on the ST. There is some slowdown when the screen is busy, and also at times the scrolling gets rough. I am not a fan of having no music in the background while playing; it just has sound effects.
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Unfortunately, I could not locate an Atari box for the game, so I had to use an image of the box from the Amiga.
The intro music heard here is an Atari 8-bit Pokey rendition of the Amiga music.
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Capture info -
This gameplay was captured on November 8, 2018.
Game was played on an Atari 1040 STf, TOS 1.4, 1MB, equipped with a CosmosEX from Jookie.
A Best Electronics ST Monitor to VGA cable was used, connected to an OSSC 1.6 (processing the video in Line4x mode), with the output being captured by a Startech USB3HDCAP.
Video was edited with Shotcut.
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