Gates of Zendocon
Epyx, Inc. · 2022 · Retro, Action, Side Scroller, Shoot 'Em Up, Shooter
PC
4 user reviews75% · 4
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About Gates of Zendocon
Originally released in 1989, Gates of Zendocon brought the excitement of arcade-style side scrolling shooters to the Atari Lynx handheld console. Now, relive those days in this remastered emulated version.
The droids of your old nemesis, the evil spider Zendocon, captured you. Zendocon itself sentenced you to wander its web of deadly universes. Zendocon's universes are connected by a web of transporter gates and alien bases.
Zendocon orders its droids to transport you to an alien base on the first of the 51 interconnected universes and to give you a starship. You must survive dangerous universes inhabited by hostile aliens while searching for transporter gates. When you find a transporter gate, fly through the gate into another universe.
You will find allies in Zendocon's universes. Aliens held as slaves by Zendocon's minions will help you if you can free them. They will follow your ship, aiding you with strange weapons unlike any you have ever encountered!
Will you survive Zendocon's challenge? You must survive! Your reward for success is the chance for sweet revenge – a duel to the death with the evil spider itself!
This enhanced version introduces a number of modern features to this retro classic, including:
The droids of your old nemesis, the evil spider Zendocon, captured you. Zendocon itself sentenced you to wander its web of deadly universes. Zendocon's universes are connected by a web of transporter gates and alien bases.
Zendocon orders its droids to transport you to an alien base on the first of the 51 interconnected universes and to give you a starship. You must survive dangerous universes inhabited by hostile aliens while searching for transporter gates. When you find a transporter gate, fly through the gate into another universe.
You will find allies in Zendocon's universes. Aliens held as slaves by Zendocon's minions will help you if you can free them. They will follow your ship, aiding you with strange weapons unlike any you have ever encountered!
Will you survive Zendocon's challenge? You must survive! Your reward for success is the chance for sweet revenge – a duel to the death with the evil spider itself!
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
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
If you had this game on your Lynx and want to experience some nostalgia, absolutely buy this. If neither point applies to you, probably give it a pass. The Lynx and its games were groundbreaking at the time, but haven't aged particularly well. Especially Gates of Zendocon.11 found this helpful
Look I'm as big of a fan of this game and the Atari Lynx as it gets but this is such a lazy "port" it's mind boggling how this was allowed to be released on Steam as it is. All this is is the LibRetro port of Handy that is programmed to run alongside the ROM that's in a separate folder. And seeing the name of the ROM in the files is "Gates of Zendocon, The (USA, Europe).lnx" they very very likely got the ROM for Gates Of Zendocon off a ROM set on the internet and not via Atari, Epyx, or whoever they got the license from. The naming scheme of the ROM here is how the files are typically named in ROM sets across the internet. Also nothing stops the user from taking a ROM, renaming it to the identical file name and play their own ROM as the program used doesn't check if the current ROM is in fact Gates Of Zendocon and not some other game. It'll play any ROM as long as you rename the ROM file to be identical to the file name I mentionned in the paragraph above. No features or anything special that you would realistically expect from a retro re-release. No rewind, no soundtrack, no artwork, no extras, etc. Just extremely barebones features and a basic emulator. They couldn't even do t…4 found this helpful
Epyx -> Handy -> Atari -> Lynx <3
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