Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the ’80s and ’90s, nobody made games like Jeff Minter.
Revealed in the Day of the Devs showcase, Digital Eclipse’s Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is an interactive documentary coming to PC and consoles in 2024. Play the history of one of the weirdest, wildest game developers to ever exist — a man who loves shooters and sheep, lasers and llamas!
PS: We are looking forward to playing the (never released) Konix Multi-System – Attack of the Mutant Camels ’89!!
Journey back in time to an era of cassette tapes, photocopied zines, and README.TXT. An era in which a kid with a Commodore VIC-20 and dreams of radioactive sheep could become one of Britain’s best-known game makers. A virtual museum of design documents, playable games, and all-new videos tell the fascinating story of a true independent game designer.
FEATURES
- Four “interactive timelines” tell the story of Jeff Minter and Llamasoft through archival photos, design documents, playable games, and more historical artifacts.
- Over an hour of all-new video featurettes from Paul Docherty, director of the upcoming documentary film Heart of Neon.
- Game library features 42 classic games from 8 different platforms, including the unreleased Konix Multi-System hardware.
- The all-new Gridrunner Remastered updates the classic game’s graphics and sound, while still running on the original Commodore 64 code for 100% accurate gameplay
- Two of Jeff Minter’s innovative “light synthesizers,” Psychedelia and Colourspace, are fully playable with all-new console controls.
- Save, load, and rewind your gameplay at any point, plus other quality-of-life features.
- Supports English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Japanese.
INCLUDED GAMES
- Sinclair ZX81
- 3D3D
- Centipede
- Commodore VIC-20
- Abductor
- Andes Attack
- Deflex V
- Gridrunner
- Hellgate
- Laser Zone
- Matrix: Gridrunner 2
- Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time
- Ratman
- Commodore 64
- Ancipital
- Attack of the Mutant Camels
- Batalyx
- Gridrunner
- Hellgate
- Hover Bovver
- Iridis Alpha
- Laser Zone
- Mama Llama
- Matrix: Gridrunner 2
- Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time
- Psychedelia
- Revenge of the Mutant Camels
- Revenge of the Mutant Camels II
- Rox 64
- Sheep In Space
- Voidrunner
- Sinclair Spectrum
- City Bomb
- Headbangers Heaven
- Rox III
- Superdeflex
- Atari 8-bit
- Attack of the Mutant Camels
- Colourspace
- Gridrunner
- Hover Bovver
- Turboflex
- Konix Multi-System
- Attack of the Mutant Camels ’89
- Atari ST
- Llamatron: 2112
- Revenge of the Mutant Camels
- Super Gridrunner
- Atari Jaguar
- Tempest 2000
- Reimagined
- Gridrunner Remastered
image source: Digital Eclipse
You’ve either heard of Jeff Minter or you haven’t. If you have, then that means you know he creates high-octane, psychedelic retro-style shoot’em up video games, usually with a camel, llama or some other ungulate. Perhaps you don’t know Jeff, but you have played 
image source: Paul Docherty – Heart of Neon