Uridium
| Uridium | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Graftgold |
| Publisher(s) | Hewson Consultants |
| Designer(s) | Andrew Braybrook |
| Programmer(s) | Andrew Braybrook (C64) Dominic Robinson (Spectrum) Nick Eastridge (NES) |
| Composer(s) | Steve Turner (C64) Rich Shemaria (NES) |
| Platform(s) | Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, MS-DOS, NES, ZX Spectrum |
| Release | 28 February 1986 |
| Genre(s) | Scrolling shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Uridium (released for the NES as The Last Starfighter) is a horizontally scrolling shooter designed by Andrew Braybrook for the Commodore 64 and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986. The game consists of fifteen levels, each named after a metal element, with the last level being the fictional metallic element Uridium. The manual quotes Robert Orchard, who invented the name, as saying "I really thought it existed".
Uridium was ported to the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum. A version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990 by Mindscape. The company purchased a license based on the film The Last Starfighter, but decided to recycle an existing game. The title screen, sprites, and soundtrack were modified, but the levels and gameplay are identical.
In 2003, Uridium was re-released on the C64 Direct-to-TV. On 28 March 2008, the C64 version was published for the Wii Virtual Console in Europe.