Dead on Time

Dead on Time Developer Paul Kooistra Company Publisher Psytronik Software Musician Targhan Release 2010 Platform(s) CPC Genre Shoot-'em-up OS Game Modes Single player Controls Media Language Information

Dead on Time is a shoot-'em-up game developed by Paul Kooistra (aka Axelay) and released in 2010. The game is available as a free download, although physical copies of the game on cassette, for use on an actual Amstrad CPC, can be purchased from the Binary Zone Retro Store.

Publisher : Psytronik Software

Game Code and Graphics by Paul Kooistra

Music, SFX, Player & FDC Code by Targhan

Cover Art CPC Conversion by Super Sylvestre

Artwork by Matthew van Rooijen

Dead on Time is an "arena shoot-'em-up" where the goal is to survive as long as possible while destroying enemy waves to get bonus time. Full details can be found in the in-game instructions.

This game works on all models of CPC, but you must leave the disk in the drive for 64k models (multi loadings?). You don't need to leave the disk in with more than 64k, but if you do it will save the high-scores to disk.

Jason Kelk reviewed Dead on Time in issue 77 of Retro Gamer, giving it an overall rating of 93% and a 'Retro Gamer Sizzler' award.

• Entry for Dead on Time on CPC-POWER
• Paul Kooistra's blog
• You can find a review there (and may soon buy it) : http://www.psytronik.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80:dot&catid=41:cpc&Itemid=63 (link not working as of 19th June 2010)