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3.5/5 GamesNostalgia Initial release date 1993 Publisher Creative Dimensions Mode Single-player video game | 3.9/5 Google Play Composer(s) Ott Aaloe, Hasso Brück Developer Bluemoon Genre Platform game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems Similar Dangerous Dave, Tasty Static, Street Rod 2, Slipstream 5000, Super ZZT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bluemoon's SkyRoads is a polished-up remake of the video game Kosmonaut. The three months spent working on it paid off when the shareware title was released in 1993, selling internationally and getting low cost retail (LCR) distribution deals from the U.S. to Taiwan.
Contents
The space bar and directional keys are used to create an easy "jump and move" motion. Up accelerates the ship and down slows down the ship. Meters at the bottom indicate the ship's speed, Oxygen Levels, and Fuel Levels. The meter to the left indicates the level progress, next to a grav-o-meter that describes the planet's gravity (100 is the lowest, giving a weightless feeling, and 1700 is the highest, allowing no jumping). The level is restarted if the ship is destroyed, runs out of fuel or oxygen or falls off the roads.
The demo and full versions of both games are now available for download as freeware from the homepage of Bluemoon Interactive.
Game
Certain colors on the roads indicate special properties upon contact:
The levels always end with a tunnel that ends into space, signifying a win.
SkyRoads XMAS-Special
Following the success of the original Skyroads, Bluemoon released a "Skyroads XMAS-Special" version in 1994, which featured exactly the same interface and features, but different and considerably harder levels. Because of this substantial increase in difficulty, the XMAS-Special version never became as popular as the original.
Clones
The following table shows known clones as of 07 Sep 2015.
Continuity
Bluemoon made a simple non-interactive hardware demo to be bundled for the Texas VR gear company titled Stellar Xpress which effectively was a more modern update to SkyRoads/Kosmonaut, but the project was then cancelled.