A while back, I saw a video of a homebrew game for the Atari Jaguar CD called Superfly DX. It’s a simple game, but it looked pretty good (especially for a homebrew). The developers offer the game free as a download (which you can burn to a CD). So I had downloaded the file, but I never burned it onto a CD. Until today.
So I gave it a try. You play as a superhero (or at least a guy wearing a cape) who flies or swims from left to right as the screen constantly scrolls. The game only requires one button to play. And I don’t mean the directional pad plus one button, I mean only one button. Pressing the B button makes you go up by a little bit. Gravity then pulls you back down of course, so you have to strike the right balance to keep from hitting the cavern walls above or below you.
In some modes, you have to collect objects (such as stars) as you go, but other modes have you just trying to survive as long as you can. The game seems to be just a score-based game at first, but a story mode can also be unlocked. There are four worlds, but so far I’ve only seen the first two–the underwater world and the lava world.
Superfly DX has good music and it’s surprisingly fun to play. It’s honestly better than a lot of the professionally-made, retail games released on the system. I’ll be playing this game more in the coming days, and you can expect a review in the near future. If you’re interested, the developers’ site is at reboot.atari.org.
UPDATE: My Superfly DX review has since been posted, and here is a video to give you a better sense of what the gameplay is like.
