26: Overkill

Number 26
(168.2 points)
Overkill
1994: 35 (39.6)
1995: 29 (57.6)
1996: 30 (71.0)

Remember Defender, the game we just looked at in the last entry? Well, this is a clone of it. Like Anarchy, in fact.

As in Defender, you have to kill aliens before they can take away people on the surface, after which you can progress to the next world. What distinguishes itself from Defender is the various extras for your ship, such as better weaponry, and the smooth parallax scrolling and colourful graphics (it is an AGA-only game).

For crying out loud, another Defender clone? The fact we have two imitations and a PD recreation of the actual game in this list suggests someone in the Amiga Power office was a particularly big fan of Defender and insisted as many renditions of the thing were included. Anyway, it looks and sounds nice.

Recommended TOSEC disk(s):
Overkill (1993)(Mindscape)(AGA)(Disk 1 of 2)
Overkill (1993)(Mindscape)(AGA)(Disk 2 of 2)
Overkill & Lunar-C (1993)(Mindscape)[!][compilation] (CD32)