It’s the year 1997, with the recent surge in developing homebrew for the PICO-8 home computer, I've decided to take a crack at it and remake my favorite LX-II game, OVERBOLD, which I have fond memories of playing back in the 80's.
DISCLAIMER: This is a fan-made remake of the UFO 50 game OVERBOLD, I have no association with Mossmouth (the studio that made the game this is based on).
Overview
OVERBOLD FME (fan-made edition) for the PICO-8 is a brutal, topdown shoot-em-up, with strategic planning. You fight various enemies, gaining more rewards the more enemies you choose to fight. Play aggressively to net powerful upgrades- just make sure not to go over bold!
Features
- 16 unique upgradable abilities! 3 of them new!
- 3 difficulties!
- A pretty woman!
- 7 various enemies to encounter!
- Creative liberties taken for more QOL!
- GAMBLING!
- Built from the ground up with original graphics, music, and sound effects!
- A secret ending?
Controls
- Up//Left/Down/Right - Move/aim
- X - Shoot (Hold to lock direction)
- Z - Bomb
Controller recommended!
You can find OVERBOLD FME on Itch.io as well!
And for more stuff like this, please check out what this is based on, a single game from Mossmouth's UFO 50 collection. It is peak and so worth the $25 price tag.
Gameplay preview
Neat remake of the original game in UFO 50! I've only ever watched other people play it, so this was my first time playing something like it. I'd like to brag that I beat it on master difficulty on my first try (though I didn't get more than 4200 Zoldnaks). For my run, my first three upgrades all went into blood draining, and I only took on two waves at a time, then three for the 3rd and 4th rounds, then 4 for the 5th round. I got the shields for projectiles and for explosions, got a bomb capacity upgrade, and eventually upgraded fire rate and damage once each. I was extremely poor at dodging in the final round, so I think the blood draining upgrades saved me and might be overpowered. I liked how the final boss was still a challenge just to fight by itself, and I think your remake was a faithful interpretation of the original while taking interesting and successful creative liberties!
Spot on detailed review, glad you had a blast playing it! Blood 3 is by far my favorite upgrade. Second place for me goes to bounces bullets. Congrats on beating master mode first try:) that’s no small feat!!
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