Thrust Legend

A wonderful remake of the BBC Micro classic. It faithfully recreates the original planets whilst adding little more challenge in normal play and really forces you to use the shields alot more. The scoring system has also been improved. Childhood Nostalgia Peaks!

Enjoying this a great deal. Thrust is probably one of the 100 greatest games every made and this is a worthy Thrust game, within the Thrust lineage. Pinback became the greatest player in the world at Thrust. We're all just gunning for second place.

EDIT: Since I wrote this review I've spent dozens of more hours with it, achieved all the achievements, took the top spot on the global leaderboard, analyzed it to death, etc. I take back any hint of any misgivings in the below review. The new mechanics and control sensitivities are all absolutely perfect. The new levels are a serious challenge, but not remotely impossible. This is the best arcade game on Steam. ----- Original Review ----- A fitting tribute to a 40-year-old masterpiece. I only recently discovered the original BBC Micro game "Thrust", on an emulator site that still plays is perfectly well. I fell in love, and then immediately came over here on a Steam friend's glowing recommendation (yo, RB!) It includes the original six levels, each of which has been given a fresh coat of paint. The original's "reverse gravity" levels have been replaced by "underwater" levels, which are an amusing and well done re-introduction of the same mechanic. There are a few design choices which may not sit well with everyone. Particularly, after shooting down an enemy cannon, pieces of it fall away, and the pieces are deadly to your ship, so the cannon can still get you after …

Massive Retro goodness... I played the original Thrust to death on C64 and loved Gravitar on Atari 2600. Incredibly, this game is WAY better than the official Atari Gravitar Recharged. Works great on my Xbox 360 controller too. The zoom feature is cool and the music is not depressing like Gravitar Recharged and Pixel Junk Shooter. Finally a Thrust game worth putting the hours of practice into. LOVE IT!

A great version of the BBC B game which I remember fondly.. Very challenging but certainly warrants just one more go..oh and cheap as chips

Great remake of the classic Thrust, but I do have a couple of things I dont like. Would be nice to choose your control keys as I found that Z & X dont work, I had to use Z & Y (not good). I also felt that gravity was a little too quick to react on the ship, other than that, nice game :)