Are you ready for another trip? Jeff Minter, known for his kaleidoscopic arcade games like Polybius and TxK, is back with yet another rainbow-coloured adventure. This one's called Moose Life, and you can get it right now on PlayStation 4.
The game has been out for months on PC, but is now available on Sony's last-gen console. We've embedded a gameplay video above to give you an idea, and, well, yeah. As with all Llamasoft titles, this is designed to be a euphoric experience about entering a trance state. Created in the style of an 80s arcade game, it's all about chilling out with psychedelic colours and a techno soundtrack.
In terms of gameplay, this is essentially an arcade shooter, only you're playing as a moose and there are moose-themed power-ups. The whole thing is playable in PSVR too, if you really want to lose yourself. Frankly, we've watched that video and struggle to grasp what's happening, but maybe it's one of those that makes more sense when you're playing.
Again, it's out right now, and will only set you back $12.49 / £9.79. Will you be living your best life in Moose Life on PS4? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source gematsu.com]
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I'm that old that I grew up with Minter's stuff on Commodore 64.
Never warmed to his stuff meself.
Tempest was decent though.
I'll never knock Jeff Minter but I think his games can be filed under 'an acquired taste.'
IMHO.
Jeff Minter is a national treasure. Still making games like a home coder from the good old Sinclair Spectrum days. The fact he's still working in the industry is fantastic because god knows it's changed beyond all recognition and not all for the better.
@Hyperluminal I sort of agree with that.
Happy memories of the bedroom coder and suchlike.
@hypnotoad yeah. In those days kids could write a game, send the cassette to a publisher and if they were lucky they'd get a cheque in the post.
I just went to WHSmiths to write..
10 PRINT "***** Off"
20 GO TO 10
30 RUN
..like any decent school kid would 😊
@Hyperluminal Pretty much what I was going to say.
@Hyperluminal Hehehe.
Andrew Braybrook was my gaming hero.
Then along came Miyamoto.
Polybius is one of my favourite PSVR games and Minotaur Arcade Vol.1 is great too. I saw this had come to Steam a while back and was hoping it would arrive on PS4. Now where's my wallet...
I don't think I have played ANYTHING made by Jeff Minter since the Commodore 64 era but did play quite a few of his going back to the ZX80/Vic 20 era. Its not a name U recall hearing after the 80's LOL
@BAMozzy unless you have a PSVR. the games he's got on there are fun.
@hypnotoad I still have a soft spot for Jon Hare - Sensible Software. His games on the Amiga were special. Actually the Amiga was special. The best generation out of them all. The Amiga was a sublime machine and those days were the peak of pure gaming.
I pity anyone who didn't live through it and has only known gaming since we've had the internet.
@Hyperluminal Absolutely.
As for Amiga, I loved it. I discarded my treasured Atari ST for it.
Happy days.
@captainaverage
Me too.
Paradroid was my fave C64 game of all time.
@hypnotoad I was wondering if that was the same Jeff Minter. I too remember him from the C64 days!
@Hyperluminal yes!100% agree!
Zzap 64.
One of my fave gaming mags of all time.
Minter is extremely overrated imo. He's largely known for ports or games derivative of other more original games.
@hypnotoad I follow Braybrook on Twitter and he actually made a shooter on PC (unpublished) a couple of years ago. "Astierods" I think it was called.
A lot of cool stuff (actually more cool stuff now than ever) happening on the C64 stage.
@Hyperluminal well, the Sensibel games on C64 is just as special. Wizball is one of the greatest C64 games ever. Thay also made that 'Shoot'em up construction set kit' on the C64! A program for creating your own shootem'ups on the C64, it's mind blowing what they achieved.
But of course 'Cannon Fodder' 1 and 2 on the Amiga is unparalleled. I spoke to Jon Hare about a possible Cannon Fodder 3D back in 2002. He had plans, but sadly it hasn't happened.
But nowadays he is back with 'Sociable Soccer' on several platforms.
So the Mutant Camels have been replaced by Moose eh? Minter's games were already quite trippy but I can image that in PSVR it'd be a major freak out, eventually resulting in a technicolour yawn and a banging headache!
@gamer_since_83 I backed the Kickstarter campaign for Sociable Soccer a few years back but Jon cancelled it 😔
@Hyperluminal wut? I thought this game was out on Windows, iOS etc. and I read news about it in late 2020?
Also started my gaming life with a c64 and remember the mutant camels. Jeff is and will be a legend, it just wasnt my kinda game. Im more into rpg's . Back then i was a huge fan of 'lords of midnight' and the 'ultima' series
Well, I picked this up last night and have been absolutely loving it. Really great 'just one more go' arcade fun that works perfectly in VR (as with Minter's other PSVR games).
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