And speaking of Elite, the Archimedes got a remake of it in 1991. Zarch was followed by another title using the same engine, a tank action game called Conqueror.īoth Zarch and Conqueror were developed by David Braben of Elite fame. It was later ported to other computers as Virus and spawned imitators like Zeewolf and modern remakes. It's a cool game but the controls take some getting used to. The full game was released under the name Zarch. For the system's launch, the technological showpiece was Lander, a demo of a polygon shooter unlike anything the home market had seen before. It had a 32-bit RISC processor and was able to handle 3d graphics well for its time. This was powerful hardware in the late '80s.
I'm not going to talk about each one but the wiki gives a list, and some later models don't use the Archimedes name. This thread is devoted to the Acorn Archimedes computer line. It was overshadowed by other systems like the Commodore Amiga and IBM PC, and didn't have a huge number of good exclusive games, but it has enough cool stuff to intrigue me.
If you didn't grow up in the UK then chances are you haven't seen one of these computers in real life.
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