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Uridium
Sign in to saveUridium (released for the NES as The Last Starfighter) is a horizontally scrolling shooter designed by Andrew Braybrook for the Commodore 64 and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986. The game consists of fifteen levels, each named after a metal element, with the last level being the fictional metallic element Uridium. The manual quotes Robert Orchard, who invented the name, as saying "I really thought it existed".
Game data
- Released
- 1986-01-01
- User rating
- 0.00 / 5
- Platforms
- PC, iOS, Wii, NES, Commodore / Amiga, Atari ST
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Uridium (released on the NES as The Last Starfighter) is a science fiction side-scrolling shoot 'em up originally designed by Andrew Braybrook for the Commodore 64, and later ported to other 8-bit machines. It consists of fifteen levels, each named after a metal element, with the last level being called Uridium (a fictional metallic element, not to be confused with the real metallic element iridium). The manual quotes Robert Orchard, who invented the name as saying "I really thought it existed".
- Released
- 1986
- Genres
- Shooter, Arcade
- Platforms
- BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Wii, Atari ST/STE, iOS, DOS, Amstrad CPC
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Developer
- Graftgold
- Publisher
- Mindscape, Inc., Hewson Consultants, Elite Systems, Commodore, Rack-It
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- publication date
- 1986-01-01
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- www.stairwaytohell.com/games/h/Hewson-Uridium.html
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Uridium (released for the NES as The Last Starfighter) is a horizontally scrolling shooter designed by Andrew Braybrook for the Commodore 64 and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986. The game consists of fifteen levels, each named after a metal element, with the last level being the fictional metallic element Uridium. The manual quotes Robert Orchard, who invented the name, as saying "I really thought it existed".
Uridium was ported to the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum. A version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990 by Mindscape. The company purchased a license based on the film The Last Starfighter, but decided to recycle an existing game. The title screen, sprites, and soundtrack were modified, but the levels and gameplay are identical.