Shadow World for Atari 8-bit: Planet Jantor is doomed

Shadow World by Mike Potter is one of several excellent games released by Synapse Software for Atari 8-bit in the early 1980s. An excellent showcase of the Atari 8-bit's gaming chops thanks to its speedy smooth scrolling and myriad on-screen enemies, it's an entertaining twist on the Defender formula and a stiff challenge for shoot 'em up fans. Played here on The400 Mini.
Note: Shadow World's original release crashes on anything other than a 400 or 800 (or an emulator running in one of those modes). A fixed version of Shadow World for XL/XE computers can be found here: atarionline.pl...
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[@DownHomeGamer]

Anyway, I had a lot of Synapse games. Much like JD Casten at ANTIC, I’d consider Mike Potter (along with the late Bill Williams) to be one of the company’s star programmers - and Synapse was one of the best game companies on the A8.

[@ryansease7066]

Great video. Definitely a very interesting and cool game. I can see how you got into it as a kid as it has a good blend of action and explosions. In the meantime, take care and I look forward to many more explorations into the A8's game library soon enough.

[@sheets75]

The amount of stuff on screen is quite impressive.

[@DownHomeGamer]

On my copy, the amount of stuff on screen sometimes crashed my computer.

[@ThisIsPete]

@DownHomeGamer It doesn't like the XL and XE's revision of the OS, so crashes after playing a little while on them regardless of stuff on screen. Works fine on a 400/800, and a community member made a patched version a while back that plays nice with XL/XE - link in the description.

[@zockeromi1970]

never played this, but looks like a title i would enjoy