Game Over is a computer game developed by Spanish

Spain

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 software company Dinamic Software

Dinamic Multimedia

Dinamic Multimedia was a Spanish software house and publisher created in 1993 which was created after the bankruptcy of Dinamic Software in 1992 by some of its former members. After having released several titles, they filed for bankruptcy in September 2001....

 and published by Imagine Software

Imagine Software

Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20...

 in 1987

1987 in video gaming

-Notable releases:* January 14, Nintendo releases Zelda II: The Adventure of Link in January for the Famicom Disk System in Japan only. The game would go unreleased in America for nearly two years afterwards.* February 20, Konami releases Contra...

 for the ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...

, Amstrad CPC

Amstrad CPC

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, Commodore 64

Commodore 64

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 and MSX

MSX

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.

Story

The game's hero is 'Megaterminator' Arkos, the former loyal lieutanant of the beautiful but evil galactic empress Gremla and now a rebel dedicated to end her cruel tyranny. The first part of the game takes place on the prison planet Hypsis, from where Arkos must try to escape, to eventually leave towards to the jungle swamp planet Sckunn, to infiltrate the queen's palace and blow it up.

Gameplay

The game is a fairly typical side-scrolling shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em up

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 of this time period. The second part has some adventure game

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

 elements.

Sequel

Game Over was followed by the sequel Game Over II

Game Over II

Game Over II is a side-scrolling video game developed and published by Dinamic Software in .Although originally conceived as an independent game under the title Phantis, it was launched in the United Kingdom as the sequel to Game Over...

(also known as Phantis in Spain), published by Dinamic Software for the same platforms, in 1988

1988 in video gaming

-Events:*June — Nintendo releases the last issue of "Nintendo fun club news";*July — Nintendo releases the first issue of Nintendo Power magazine.-Notable releases:*January 8, Konami releases Super Contra....

.

Controversy

Game Over is best known as a controversial game in which a visible female nipple

Nipple

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 can be seen in its advertising and inlay artwork which originally appeared on the cover of Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal (magazine)

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(May 1984 - Vol.8 No.2) called Cover Ere Comprimee and is attributed to Luis Royo

Luis Royo

Luis Royo is a Spanish artist, known for his sensual and dark paintings, its apocalyptic imagery, his fantasy worlds and mechanical life forms...

. Oli Frey

Oli Frey

Oliver "Oli" Frey is a magazine illustrator and artist who worked on comic strips in the 1970s and 1980s.- Biography :Frey was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 30 June 1948. He grew up fluent in Italian and German...

, the art editor for Crash

CRASH (magazine)

Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress.-Development:...

magazine, painted over the original bare-breasted image with a thin grey corset so that it could be printed, but retailers still demanded that logos be placed over the nipples.

External links

• Game Over at MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...
  
  
• Game Over at World of Spectrum
  World of Spectrum
  World of Spectrum is a website devoted to cataloging and archiving material for the ZX Spectrum home computer popular in the 1980s, and has been officially endorsed by Amstrad which holds the rights to the ZX Spectrum brand...