Iconic indie developer's early works collected in new retrospective
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Jeff Minter is an iconic indie developer who has pursued a unique style of arcade games, psychedelia, and ungulates for over 40 years.
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Llamasoft The Jeff Minter Story interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse collects 42 of Minter's games from 1981-1994 plus an remaster, showing his evolution.
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Playing all 43 games in order shows Minter's personality and design ideas emerging over time as he riffs on arcade classics with visual touches and gameplay twists.
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The collection is truncated, cutting off after 1994's Tempest 2000, right when Minter reached his prime.
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Five highlights are the brutal action of Gridrunner; the multi-axis shooting overload of Hellgate; the mesmerizing light synth Colourspace; the characterful shmup Revenge of the Mutant Camels 2; and Minter's masterpiece Tempest 2000.