I especially like the Starcraft-styled missile silos that you can flatten enemy bases with, once you've scouted their territory out well enough to know the exact X and Y coordinates on the map to shoot at. ![]() Planet X3 is a a base-building RTS game, designed around a keyboard-only UI and featuring direct unit control. Planet X3 is designed to scale down to run on nearly any early PC, and be fully playable in four-colour CGA, as you can see in the Kickstarter pitch/work-in-progress gameplay video below. In fact, it's technically not even a gameplay screenshot, just a mock-up, as right now the game only goes up to EGA graphics. ![]() For some time he's been working on a PC-based sequel designed to support even the most ancient of IBM-compatible machines, and recently launched a Kickstarter to further fund development, which hit its target within mere hours.īefore anyone gets smart in the comments, yes, the screenshot above is from the planned VGA mode of the game. On top of his hardware breakdowns and restoration projects, he semi-recently made a strategy game for the Commodore 64 called Planet X2. Among the folks I follow on YouTube, I tune into The 8-Bit Guy whenever I feel like seriously learning about retro computer history.
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