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Another future sport game, with relatively rare 2 player support, which used simple vector graphics in order to get super fast scrolling speeds on the underpowered Spectrum.

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This was a frustrating game to work on - not that I did much work on it - because Steve Hughes, the designer and programmer, liked to be self-sufficient and design games where he could create everything himself, hence the computer generated vector graphics for the ship and the arena.

I think Steve did the ship, so there was nothing left for me to do but the font, the panel and the Spectrum loading screen.

 

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