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!

Old enough to remember original. Feel this has been over-produced; less attention to graphics & more to game play would have produced much better game.

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.

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

Tolles Remake eines der besten Spiele des C64. Gutes Beispiel dafür, dass Spielspass keine Highend Grafik braucht. Ich kann Thrust Legend nur empfehlen, den es ist ein kurzweiliger Spaß für zwischendurch und gehört zu den Top5 der aufgekommenen Retrowelle.

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 The original's "reverse gravity" levels have been replaced by "underwater" levels, which are an amusing and well done re-introduction of the same mechanic.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 it's gone. Also, the controls are MUCH more finicky and sensitive than the original. Both elements add additional layers of difficulty to an already extremely difficult game. You will either like them, or get used to them, or wish there was a way to turn them off. Also, other than the original six levels and six more "underwater" levels, there are only a couple other sets of levels, called "New" and "Brutal", and they are all so laughably difficult as to be considered impossible to anyone but the most hardcore Thrust-heads and gravity experts. But I'll keep banging my head against 'em, because the original Thrust game is one of the perfect, incredible achievements in the history of computer gaming, and it hasn't lost a step in the 40 years since its introduction. For $3, if you have any interest in the subject at all, or any interest in cave flyers, it is absurd for you to not purchase this product immediately.

Great game in it's simplicity. Much better then the old version on C-64 which I already loved. Thumps up!