Description
Nebulus is a platform game with some distinctive unique
features. Your character, a small green creature
called Pogo, is on a mission to destroy eight towers
that have been built onto the sea.
The actual game play happens at each tower in turn.
Pogo starts from the bottom and has to find his way
up to the top. The towers are cylinder-shaped and
have ledges on their outside, either horizontal,
forming stairs or connected by elevators. Because of
the cylindrical shape, the towers have no "left" or
"right" edges, instead allowing Pogo to walk all
around the tower.
A graphical innovation, and perhaps the most notable
feature of the game, is that when Pogo walks left or
right, he always stays in the centre of the visible
screen. Instead of the Pogo sprite moving, the tower
behind him turns clockwise or counterclockwise with
a convincing sense of depth. This was featured
favourably in reviews of the game.
Along his way to the top of the tower, Pogo
encounters many different enemies, mostly shaped
like basic geometric shapes. Pogo can shoot some of
the enemies, while some are impervious to shooting.
Contact with an enemy knocks Pogo down to the ledge
below. If there is no ledge below, Pogo falls into
the sea and drowns.
Once he has reached the top of the tower, Pogo needs
to enter a door to trigger the tower's destruction
mechanism. After that, the tower crumbles to the
sea. Pogo then boards his submarine and enters a
bonus stage, where he can shoot various kinds of
fish to score bonus points.
Nebulus was followed by a lesser-known sequel,
Nebulus 2, in the 1990s.
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