Commodore 64

X-Out

The opening sequence

And your craft takes off for its mission!

Title screen

Selecting / equipping your craft

Attacking enemies!

Uh oh, I'm surrounded!

A very large boss!!

Stage 2 Boss - there's no indication of where to shoot it.

Stage 3 - Now with destructible terrain.

Stage 3 - The track leaving enemies could have been borrowed straight from R-Type.

Stage 3 Boss - Mutant grasshopper of doom?

Stage 4 - Trust me, it's a new stage even though it looks exactly like stage 3.

Stage 4 - This time with no enemies, maybe the designers got bored.

Stage 4 Boss - Mechanoid green thing with a teeny tiny head.

Stage 5 - Actually looks different!

Stage 5 Boss - Relentlessly crushes you against the border of the screen.

Stage 6 - Featuring the evil and near indestructible snails of indestructibleness.

Stage 6 - The little walker enemies are surprisingly well programmed.

Stage 6 Boss - Some sort of giant green angry guinea pig...

... which turns into an even unhappier angry green, um, thing.

Stage 7 - Dying so often now it's difficult to get a screenshot with the player ship on.

Stage 7 - I don't remember why I kept this screenshot, probably because the player is visible.

Stage 7 Boss a - Will kill you beyond dead...

... except when it gets bored and wanders off the top of the screen.

Stage 8 - I haven't the foggiest what those things are.

Stage 8 - An intermediate boss, haven't had one of those since stage 2.

Stage 8 Boss - Again I've no idea where to shoot it. Lots and lots of patience is required.

And with a everything destroyed it's time to leave the planet...

... and our name in volatile computer memory. So much for going down in the annals of history.