There have been many games inspired by Andrew Braybrook’s 1986 cult-classic horizontal shoot ’em up Uridium, which originated on the Commodore 64 and was ported to most of the popular ’80s home computers of the time as well as to the NES as a strange movie tie-in with The Last Starfighter. Chances are you’ve played or at least seen the game in some form over the years. In the mobile world, two titles come to mind as being especially inspired by Uridium. There was the fully 3D polygonal take Futuridium EP (I mean, it’s right there in the title) that was incredibly awesome but is sadly no longer on the App Store, and there’s the similarly awesome Starseed: Origin ($2.99) which was truer to Uridium in looks but played around with the concept a bit. That one is still on the App Store but hasn’t been updated in ages.
Then there’s Hyper Sentinel ($1.99), a game that looked to stay truest to the original Uridium’s concepts but updating them in a number of ways that positioned it as a true candidate for being an official spiritual successor. In fact, Hyper Sentinel developer Four5Six Pixel partnered up with Huey Games to help finish off and publish the game, and Huey is a direct descendant of Hewson Consultants who published the original Uridium (and countless other classic indie computer games in the ’80s) back in 1986. This is as full circle as a story can get, and it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Anyway...