Penetrator

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!

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

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…