Hikari no Senshi Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth

a.k.a. 光の戦士フォトン惑星ゾルディアスの戦い / Foton: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth / Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth

published by Takara in 1987-08-28, developed by Advance Communication Company, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: maze, shooter
genre: Science Fiction
perspective: 3rd person
player options: single player

languages: jpn

Personal review

"The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth"? Well, not really. Photon is a rather unplayable game. It looks similar to first-person dungeon-crawlers, but you control and move your character inside each screen. From time to time you are attacked by monsters which you must shoot down. Killing them replenishes some of your energy. Some sort of keycards give you access to elevators which let you move between the different floors of the maze. The controls are not good. Your character can only shoot up and not side-ways. The maze is very difficult to navigate due to the strange mixture of perspective.