Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition

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Moonshadow title screen (1988) 🔗


Don't worry if you've never heard of Moonshadow—on top of being an obscure C64 game, it was never actually released with that title. After the originally intended publisher Ocean dropped it, it was finished up by another company called cascade and released as Zone Trooper. The original title screen was entirely ditched in the process, not sure it was because someone noticed that the cool skull planet was totally ripped from the cover of Time Tells no Lies by Praying Mantis.

Info about Moonshadow was documented by Fabrizio Bartoloni and the image source identified by Hoagie on Games That Weren't.

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