Computer Platform Games #10

Gods (1991)
By: The Bitmap Brothers Genre: Platform/Shooting Players: 1 Difficulty: Medium-Hard
Featured Version: Amiga First Day Score: 99,884
Also Available For: Atari ST, PC, MegaDrive, SNES, Jaguar, PC-98, Archimedes

My determination in the 80s into the early 90s that consoles were superior to even the most powerful home computers meant that I got into the Amiga pretty late, and accordingly I missed out of a good number of its classics. One game that I didn't miss out on, however, was Gods by the revered Bitmap Brothers. It cast me, and indeed anyone else who played the game, as the mighty Hercules who seeks to attain immortality by reclaiming the Citadel of the Gods which has been taken over by four idiotic 'guardians'. Quite why Hercules has a greater chance of liberating the citadel than actual gods, I don't know. Can't they just zap the guardians with lightning or something? Hercules is a mighty man indeed, but still just a man at this point. Hmm, anyway, I'm sure his quest won't be an easy one. Let's find out.