Nebulus (video game)

Nebulus
Cover artwork by Steve Weston[1]
Developer(s)Hewson Consultants
Publisher(s)Hewson Consultants
U.S. Gold
Triffix Entertainment
Designer(s)John M. Phillips
Composer(s)John M. Phillips
David Whittaker (Game Boy/NES)
Platform(s)Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Game Boy, NES, Atari 7800, Acorn Archimedes, Wii Virtual Console, MS-DOS
Release1987
Virtual Console
  • EU: June 13, 2008
  • NA: May 4, 2009

Game Boy
  • NA: May 1991
  • JP: October 30, 1992
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Nebulus is a platform game created by John M. Phillips and published by Hewson Consultants in the late 1980s for home computer systems. International releases and ports were known by various other names: Castelian, Kyorochan Land (キョロちゃんランド, Kyorochan Rando), Subline, and Tower Toppler.[2]

The game's original 8-bit release received some critical acclaim, in particular the Commodore 64 release, which garnered a Gold Medal award from UK magazine Zzap!64.

Nebulus was followed by the lesser-known Nebulus 2 for the Amiga in the 1990s.

  1. ^ "Censored!". The Games Machine. No. 20. Newsfield. July 1989. pp. 54–56. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
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