Penetrator

Penetrator

Beam Software · May 17, 2022 · Side Scroller, Shoot 'Em Up, Retro, Pixel Graphics, Flight

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Penetrator price by region

Penetrator costs $1.39 in Georgia (USD), £1.69 in the United Kingdom, $1.99 in the United States, €1.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$2.59 in Canada, A$2.95 in Australia, NZ$2.99 in New Zealand, R$6.99 in Brazil and zł8.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Penetrator offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $1.39 $1.39 — 1
United Kingdom £1.69 £1.69 — 1
United Statesyour region $1.99 $1.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €1.99 €1.99 — 1
Canada CA$2.59 CA$2.59 — 1
Australia A$2.95 A$2.95 — 1
New Zealand NZ$2.99 NZ$2.99 — 1
Brazil R$6.99 R$6.99 — 1
Poland zł8.99 zł8.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Penetrator

Originally released in 1982, Penetrator was a classic side-scrolling shoot-em-up for the ZX Spectrum, praised at the time for its impressive scrolling graphics on the home computer. The game also included a level editor, a novelty at the time. Now, relive those days in this remastered emulated version.

Gameplay


Steer your spaceship through continuously scrolling levels that flow seamlessly into each other, to reach and destroy an illegal cache of neutron bombs. Dodge the mountains and, in later levels, the cavern ceiling. Deadly missiles fire up from the ground at your craft. Fire back at them, and drop bombs to destroy radar bases. Each level becomes more and more difficult as you are challenged to weave your ship through tight, narrow corridors.

The game contains a level editor, which allows you to modify the first 4 levels, changing the floor and ceiling, and adding radar bases and missiles.

This enhanced version introduces a number of modern features to this retro classic, including:
  • Saving/loading the game at any point
  • Support for most modern game controllers
  • Full control remapping
  • Image scaling and smoothing options

Penetrator — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player, Online PvP, Split screen
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Dec 15, 2022
First of all... I AM SO ANGRY THAT CLASSIC ABANDONWARE IS BEING BOUGHT OUT AND AT PRICES WORTH MORE THAN IT SHOULD BE! Second, I can't stand that they only allow us to play the worst versions like they did by giving us LOST PATROL for dos, the worst version and giving us the worst version of Penetrator! The loud annoying klunky speccy version of the game. Look for the c64 version! It works better! Steam please give us the option of other platforms!
4 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 4, 2022
i used to love this game when i was a child and yes its still really really hard ive made a steam controller config for it too
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 13, 2024
I have extremely little experience with the ZX Spectrum computer console. So little that I never even knew what it looked like until writing this review. The only other ZX Spectrum game that I had ever played was a port of Jetpac that was bundled with its digital-only remake on the Xbox 360, Jetpac Refueled. So going into Penetrator, I had a small idea regarding what the console was capable of. And this game didn't seem very well optimized in comparison, along with a couple of other problems. For starters, the main menu gives you the option to disable the annoying siren going off on that screen and no other sound. Honestly, for that, I could just mute the entire game altogether, especially considering how loud the "music" is in the rest of the game. But while we're in the menu, I do like that it has a feature to make and save your own levels, which uses the default one as the template. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to alter the length or set any level marks, so designing levels would probably get pretty restrictive as you would either start making parts of it without an idea in mind or you would have to condense or cut out a lot of stuff that you'd want in. So the main obje…
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