Tornado Low Level

Tornado Low Level
ZX Spectrum cover
Developer(s)Costa Panayi
Publisher(s)Vortex Software
Ocean Software
Designer(s)Costa Panayi
Programmer(s)ZX Spectrum
Costa Panayi
Amstrad CPC
David Aubrey-Jones
Commodore 64
Simon Nicol
Platform(s)Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Release1984: Spectrum, C64
1985: Amstrad
Genre(s)Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Tornado Low Level (also known as T.L.L.) is a multidirectional flight game developed by Costa Panayi and published in 1984 by the company he co-founded, Vortex Software. The game was first released for the ZX Spectrum, and later ported to the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64.

The game has the player control a Panavia Tornado fighter jet, tasked to destroy targets throughout the map. Tornado Low Level received positive reviews for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions by video game critics, both on release and in retrospective reviews. The game was also a commercial success, with the Spectrum version debuting at number three on Personal Computer Games' top fifty charts. The success of the game led to a sequel titled Cyclone, which featured a similar graphical style and similar play.