The game you remember from your childhood, Mercenary - Escape from Targ - is now available to do download for free (PC, Mac and Linux), with enhanced graphics, but keeping all great aspects of the original game.
The legendary 1985 MERCENARY game for 8-bit computers ATARI (later C64, Spectrum, Amiga) is one of the games that influenced my life. As a tribute to the brilliant author Paul Woakes and for sentimental reasons, I decided to create a remake with the great help of Paul Spark, who carried out the reverse engineering and brought his extensive knowledge to the project, from the ground up, with better graphics but keeping all aspects of the original game. Upscaling or porting this game can never achieve the necessary quality, so I decided to create it from scratch in Unity.
It took over half a year to sort out all the details that the original game contained. I just have to marvel at how brilliantly they did it almost 40 years ago...
Playing retro-games is like reading a good book. When the player isn't oversaturated by the explosive graphics and sound effects, his imagination can soar...
ZIP package includes 3 versions of build,
choose one suitable for your machine then run in Finder
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Buy us coffee if you are happy with this remake or want to support us to make Mercenary - Second City remake...
Yes sure! This is classic example of Paul Woakes sense of humour. If you find a cheese item, you can store it into your pocket, then on the ground just drop it down and use to fly above the city. I took special attention to preserve all these great details...
Yes you can. All solutions revealed by players (including these published in Atari magazine) should work in Mercenary Restart as well.
Another Paul Woakes' joke and reason, why this remake still use wireframe graphics. Without it this joke wouldn't be possible. And, ah, you asked what does it mean? Well, just find this item and look at it from another side...
I think the less the better. I didn't want to make another Far Cry or another game with realistic graphics because we would lose the atmosphere we remember from our youth. So I stuck to the principle of improving the game to be able to enjoy it on current computers but keeping all the features of the original game. It gives room for our imagination...
Yes, it is. I don't want to profit from the ideas and work of the original authors. On the other hand, working on this remake still takes me and Paul Spark more than half a year of daily work, so if you'd like to contribute to our coffee, we'd love it. That's why I've added a Donate button...
We have the necessary materials to create this sequel to Mercenary. It depends on the interest of the players and the amount of financial support. We would even like to create a third city - a sequel with completely new building models, items, underground rooms, scenario and new quests and logic puzzles...
I work as a senior programmer for CAD/CAM solutions in the garment industry. However, my other interests include design, music and movies production, making electronic devices for paranormal and UAP phenomena research, studying art history (especially the works of Leonardo da Vinci), creating simulators in the field of astrophysics and electromagnetic field physics, and... many more. Yes, it's crazy, that's why I'm happy for every completed project and Mercenary Restart is one of them...
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