Mission: Thunderbolt

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What is Mission: Thunderbolt?

Some say the best computer games are those that cause players to lose sleep, shun family and friends, and neglect vital aspects of personal hygiene. “I made myself wretched for six days!” an adolescent identified only by initials might testify in a press release. Although we haven't seen the press release from Casady & Greene, we expect no less praise for Dave Schefiler's Mission: Thunderbolt,

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by aliens. You must fight or charm your way through a multitude of beasties that inhabit 30 levels (some of which are side warrens) of a laboratory. Your mission is to recover an antimatter device that can make hash of your enemies. Along the way, you pick up weaponry, armor, strange devices, and pills of various colors (which occasionally prove harmful).

The keys to survival in Mission: Thunderbolt are forethought and cunning. Unlike in many other adventure games, there's no single way to do things correctly, For example, say you need to get around a threatening collection of nasties to reach the floor below: You can tough it out with your available weaponry, pound a hole in the floor and jump through, or set a group of recently convened friendlies on the baddies while you take a snooze.

With this much flexibility, Mission: Thunderbolt won’t be one of those games you play just once and then put onto the shelf. Each new game generates different character attributes, floor plans, and pill colors plus a new distribution of weapons and beasts.

This complexity brings with it some frustration. The manual provides virtually no guidance, so you learn as you play. You may spend hours repeating idiotic tasks before you realize there are more-subtle workarounds. You can save games in progress, but points are deducted for each save and there is no Revert command.

Will Mission: Thunderbolt cause our apocryphal teen to become a complete social misfit for the duration of play? Without question. If playing computer games until you're bug-eyed is your idea of a good time, you could hardly be in better company.

Breen, Christopher. (October 1992). Mission: Thunderbolt. MacUser. (pg. 83).


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Architecture


Motorola 68K



System Requirements

From Mac OS 6.0





Compatibility notes


Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II





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