Nebulus 1987

Is it still worth playing?

Created by John Phillips in the late 1980s for home computers, this vertically scrolling platform game was released in other regions as Castelian, Kyorochan Land, Subline and Tower Toppler. The player is Pogo, a green creature on a mission to destroy eight towers built in the sea by placing bombs at their peaks. Each tower is a cylinder with ledges outside, either horizontal like stairs or linked by elevators, and Pogo starts at the bottom. When he walks left or right the tower turns behind him, giving a 3D effect. Enemies are mostly geometric shapes and some can be shot. Contact knocks Pogo down a ledge, and with none below he falls into the sea. A rotating tower is a trick that is still easy to enjoy.