Spectre WEB: classic Mac OS series returns as a browser game
Sept 1, 2022 6:46:33 GMT -5
Post by Dracula on a bike on Sept 1, 2022 6:46:33 GMT -5
If you were a Macintosh user in the early 1990s, you might remember the Spectre series of tank-themed 3D shooter games.
In 2010, following a 16-year hiatus since the previous 2 installments in the series (namely the CD-ROM enhanced version of Spectre VR and the SNES port/remake of Spectre), a Spectre game for iOS titled Spectre 3D was released by a company named Brilliant Bytes Software... but at some point during the 12-year timespan since then, it was delisted from the iOS App Store.
Well, as of this year, they've revived Spectre 3D as an HTML5/JavaScript-based play-in-browser game titled Spectre WEB, here. According to the developer, it's still in alpha test status as of this writing:
(Also note: throughout 2005-2007, Brilliant Bytes Software also released a freeware game for Windows titled Virtua Combat. This was more-or-less a series of 3 beta-test versions of what would eventually become Spectre 3D. In total, they appear to have released 3 pre-release builds of it to the public, and you can still find them here, here, and here.)
In 2010, following a 16-year hiatus since the previous 2 installments in the series (namely the CD-ROM enhanced version of Spectre VR and the SNES port/remake of Spectre), a Spectre game for iOS titled Spectre 3D was released by a company named Brilliant Bytes Software... but at some point during the 12-year timespan since then, it was delisted from the iOS App Store.
Well, as of this year, they've revived Spectre 3D as an HTML5/JavaScript-based play-in-browser game titled Spectre WEB, here. According to the developer, it's still in alpha test status as of this writing:
Jun 20, 2022 9:52:00 GMT -5 Brilliant Bytes Software's official Twitter account said:
The multiplayer should be working again on the web version (this is still considered to be an alpha test)(Also note: throughout 2005-2007, Brilliant Bytes Software also released a freeware game for Windows titled Virtua Combat. This was more-or-less a series of 3 beta-test versions of what would eventually become Spectre 3D. In total, they appear to have released 3 pre-release builds of it to the public, and you can still find them here, here, and here.)