Awesome

Awesome is a science fiction action video game released by Psygnosis for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1990. It features a variety of gameplay styles, from overhead shooting to Asteroids-esque sequences, and a pre-rendered ray-traced intro sequence. The antagonist of the game is John Winner. Scenes and music from the game were featured in Psygnosis's later game Lemmings as in-jokes, in a Taxing rated level called "What an AWESOME level". The theme music for Awesome was composed by Tim Wright. The box art for Awesome was painted by science fiction artist John Harris.

Released

1990 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player

Perspective

Third person · Bird view / Isometric

• Reflections InteractiveDeveloper
• PsygnosisPublisher
• FFujitsuPublisher

• Action
• Science fiction
• aliens
• boss fight
• countdown timer
• explosion
• fuel management
• ice stage
• multiple gameplay perspectives
• pixel art
• planet jumping
• shopping
• spaceship
• swarming enemies

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