Portal Buster
A downloadable game
A fast-paced bidirectional horizontal shooter – and perhaps too fast for some of the armchair scroller fans, but what do I care, I need speed.
To sweeten the deal, you get infinite continues, nine levels of weapon power-up, built-in trainer modes, portals and respawn points. So battle your way through a gigantic 32k pixel-wide level to find and destroy the end boss.
You need to pick up fuel barrels to keep your spaceship afloat. If you activate both sides of a colour-coded portal, you can reap the benefits of hyperspace and travel instantaneously. Doors require buttons to be pressed.
Key mapping:
- M : Music on/off
- Space : Pause
- H : Half-speed trainer
- I : Invulnerability trainer
- O : Overtime
The game is PAL only and uses VSP for scrolling, so you may encounter some problems on a small subset of original C64 hardware that has the VSP bug. It has been tested on several C64/C128, TheC64 and emulators.
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Great game with great music, thank you. I also included it in my new "Gameplay of New C64 Games from October 2024" video, in addition to the other C64 games released in October.
Wonderful game, do you have an email I could contact you on please?
You can usually find me on the EverythingC64 discord
Excellent shooter! Here’s my longplay of it.
Very nice and fast, but hard shooter with great scrolling! Our German-language review can be found in our recorded livestream starting at 01:28:07. English subtitles are also available. Subscription to our YouTube and Twitch channel is welcome. 🙂
Is it possible that the [O]vertime cheat does not work? I presume that time is the bar below the lives counter.
I just verified again, that it is working by using a vice screen recording. Without overtime the fuel tank lasts for 15 seconds and with overtime for 30 seconds. So it seems to work.
Ah OK, just a slowdown.
Many thanks for this, here is my tribute !
Amazing work! :) https://c64universe.wordpress.com/2024/10/04/portal-buster-2024-drmortalwombat/
Many thanks! Keep C64 alive. :)
We have already played and had a great time. It's a very cool space shooter. We will write a review for issue #27 of our magazine. Greetings :)
A very tough game with superb graphics, music and game play.
Cool game, thanks.
Awesome game !
Amazing shooter!
Awesome game!
You may have linkte the wrong video
hahaha...for being so fast buddy.
It happens. He makes no mistakes who does nothing :).
If you say so. Saberpepin!
Corrected, apologies :)
Great game! A friend of mine played it: