Reptalia
Release type: Shareware
Release date: March 31, 1994
Levels: 7
Author: Antares Bros.
Registration bonus: Complete game + custom character
Registration price: $10-19.00
Related games: Time After Time
The second game in the New Age Warrior series, Reptalia is, as with its predecessor Time After Time, a result of the entrepreneurial pairing of Paul Callahan and James Russell, and one of the oddest Game-Maker games out there.
With an easy game development kit at hand, Callahan and Russell chose to advertise their services as custom game designers. Send in a portrait of yourself, and they would scan it in, anti alias it, and slap it on a stock militiaman's body to roam around a desert and shoot things.
Along with the games of Sheldon Chase and Marty Valenti, the New Age Warrior games are amongst the few examples of digitization at show in a Game-Maker game. They are also the least effective, as there is no animation and little attempt to blend the photographs into the surrounding imagery.
Of the two games, Reptalia is the stronger. Unlike its predecessor, there is a certain amount of event and legitimate exploration to the design, and the gameworld is filled with distinctive structures that allow the player to navigate fairly easily. The attacks and the enemy threats are also more dramatic than in Time After Time.
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Contents
Story
(YOUR NAME HERE), The famous "New Age Warrior", has been dropped on the island of Reptalia to investigate many strange disappearences at a top secret biological testing site.
There you find a new race of semi-intelligent reptiles preparing for war against the human race under the guidance and domination of a powerful lizard king.
You must battle your way through their barbarous lands to the palace of the lizard king and destroy him and thereby prevent the certain catastrophe that will follow if he is not stopped.
GOOD LUCK!... You'll need it!
(Jungles, caverns, palace of the Lizard King, and more levels are in the full version naturally.)
Instructions
Button one and two control shooting on keyboard and joystick. Use arrow keys for keyboard movement. P is for pickups, D for drop offs. F1 is the general help menu.
HINTS: goodies are hidden, you must seek them out. Grenades are limited, keep enough to blow your way through the demon doors! Make sure your Sound Blaster path is correct so that you can hear my .voc files. You may have to recopy the game to the hard drive to remedy it.
YES! YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW CAN ACTUALLY BE IN THE GAME! Imagine yourself as the hero battling your way through the barbarous lands of REPTALIA or dispatching the bizarre minions of Dr. Vladimir Von Technoface in TIME AFTER TIME! It's fun! It's new! We invite you to experience a new level of game playing action.
Credits
Game idea and graphics shared by two wonderful fellas. Me (Jim Russell) and my pal, Paul Callahan. Enjoy.
Thanks to all the people at Recreational Software Designs for their great Game-Maker software which is the engine that drives this game. Thanks to Haruyasu Yoshizaki for the free use of his LHarc software.
All CMF files included with this software are given freely without charge, and are included for the users enjoyment.
Availability
Available on several shareware compilation CD-ROMs, including:
- Chicago Computer Broker's Current Shareware Volume 2 (July 1994),
- Software Vault: Windows 2 (December 1994),
- Terry Blount's Cream of the Crop #4 (1994),
- Software Vault: The Ruby Collection (1994),
- Software Vault: Games 2 (January 1995),
- Beachware's 1000 Games for Windows and DOS (November 1995), and
- Game Empire (1995).
Archive History
Added to the archive on July 25, 2010. Located on demu.org during a methodical search for possible Game-Maker games.
Links
Interviews / Articles
- Cut-and-Paste Opportunism (DIYGamer -mirror)
- Reptalia (Nap'n'Retrogaming)
Listings
- archive.org entry
- demu.org entry
- Game Empire blog
- SWE: Game Empire (PC) 24: New Additions, Part 5 (YouTube)
Misc. Links
Downloads
- Reptalia (381.9 kB)
- Level 0 map (23.1 kB)
- Level 1 - Easy map (365.6 kB)
- Level 2 - Easy map (346.3 kB)
- Level 3 - Easy map (399.8 kB)
- Level 1 - Hard map (379.8 kB)
- Level 2 - Hard map (411.9 kB)
- Level 3 - Hard map (406.8 kB)
