Tower Toppler

Description

You play a small green guy who needs to blow up eight towers, because their presence is somehow poisoning the water of planets which could potentially be ideal colonies. Unfortunately you need to get to the top of these towers to blow them up.

You make your way up to the top of the tower via walkways around the outside of the towers. You need to jump over, kick, and run from various enemies in your journey to the top. Most vertical movement is achieved by jumping onto moving ledges at the right moment.

The game was considered revolutionary in its time for its graphic technique. As the main character walked around the outside of the tower, the character was fixed in the middle of the screen while the tower itself rotated. This gave it a pseudo-3D effect.

Towers are linked together via a voyage through the sea in your trusty MK.7 submarine. This plays out as a side-scrolling collect-'em-up in which bonus points can be obtained.

Alternate Titles

• "Nebulus" -- European title
• "Kyorochan Land" -- Famicom title
• "Castelian" -- NES title

Part of the Following Groups

• Games with frogs
• Nebulus series

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User Reviews

Dismal instructions and some random elements try but fail to scupper a classic

Atari ST

Martin Smith (64035)

The Press Says

Zzap!	Amiga	Dec, 1988	97 out of 100	97
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	DOS	Apr, 1989	952 out of 1000	95
Retrogaming History	Atari ST	May 12, 2009	9 out of 10	90
The Games Machine (UK)	Commodore 64	Dec, 1987	90 out of 100	90
The Games Machine (UK)	ZX Spectrum	Dec, 1987	87 out of 100	87
Abandonia	DOS	Feb 17, 2006	4 out of 5	80
Power Play	Game Boy	Oct, 1991	76 out of 100	76
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Nov, 1987	7 out of 10	70
IGN	Wii	May 05, 2009	6 out of 10	60
The Video Game Critic	Atari 7800	Aug 15, 1999	C+	58

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Trivia

Nebulus/Tower Toppler was also ported to the Atari XE Game System, but never released. Copies of the cartridge surfaced in the late 90s, and it turned out that the XE version ran in black and white, except for on poor display systems, where the black and white patterns turned into colours due to cross-talk on low-bandwidth colour signals. This is only true for PAL systems; on any NTSC system the game would run in full color, it looks pretty close to the 7800 version. Since the prototype uses the "Tower Toppler" name this probably was intended for US release, so the developers would be expecting the game to display in color and not black and white.