Your home solar system of 15 planets has been attacked by a horde of Super Dreadnoughts, from a race who wish to harvest your universe's minerals for their own use.

You must pilot your craft through some of the hardest levels ever created and shoot down all the enemy space craft and ground weapons, and avoid the many indestructible hazards.

The innovation is that you do not simply travel in a single direction, but instead move from left to right or right to left depending on where the current targets are, in a manner more similar to Defender than most shoot 'em ups.

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Uridium series

Merchant	Title
	Uridium
	Uridium
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User Reviews

A new direction in shoot'em-ups	Игги Друге (31844)
A defining moment for shoot-em-ups.	RUSSELL HUGHES (9)	unrated
Another Great Andrew Braybrook game	Scott G (732)

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The Press Says

Zzap!	Mar, 1986	94 out of 100	94
Zzap! (Italy)	Jun, 1986	94 out of 100	94
Happy Computer	1986	92 out of 100	92
GamesCollection	Apr 05, 2008	9 out of 10	90
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Apr, 1986	8 out of 10	80

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Trivia

Awards

Happy Computer
- 1986 - Best Action Game of the Year
- Issue 04/1987 - #4 Best Game in 1986 (Readers' Vote)

Spectrum joystick issue

Initial copies of the Spectrum version only supported the Kempston joystick protocol, rather than the Sinclair system which was the only one available to users of the then-new +2 models. After complaint from several people who'd bought the game and only been able to play it using the keyboard, Hewson altered the code.

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