Tags: °roguelike

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Author: Dave Scheifler
Released: 1986, 1992, 1994
Platform: DEC, Mac Classic, Windows 16-bit
Features: 256-colour graphics, sound effects, sci-fi theme, single-player, randomly generated maps



Likely the rarest sci-fi Roguelike game in existence, JauntTrooper - Mission: Thunderbolt was originally developed on a DEC VAX mainframe computer in 1986, as part of the Doomsday 2000 series. In 1992 the author ported it first to mac and later windows, giving the game graphics and sound.
Mission: Thunderbolt was the only game in the planned 4-part series that made it out for the PC and it was sold only by mailorder; the second game called Mission: Firestorm was released for the Macintosh only and sold very briefly. The third mission (Quicksilver) was never ported from DEC and the fourth mission (Tsunami) never left the concept stage.

You play a rebel freedom fighter whose mission it is to fetch the prototype of a lightweight antimatter bomb (L.A.M.B.) from the bottom of the vaults of Megacorp, so that the Resistance can fight back against alien invaders of Earth. Starting out with a butcher knife, a laser pistol with two charges left, and a suicide pill, wandering around anything but Region 1 will be extremely dangerous at first. Crawling into warrens beside the main dungeon will make for interesting and bloody dangerous detours.

Modelled along the lines of games such as Rogue, Hack, and Larn, the game was specifically designed to have much greater depth of game play and greater freedom with regard to interacting with the game world.
For example, one trick is to blow a hole in the floor above a particularly troublesome foe lurking on a lower level, then lob grenades through that hole to destroy the critter from relative safety; though some foes are clever enough to clamber up after the player.
While you are exploring the high-tech bunker, monsters will move about, attack each other, and track you down. There is an impressive variety of high-tech devices in the game, hidden areas, a huge range of inventory items and interesting tricks abound like making maintenance robots follow you.

About
http://web.archive.org/web/20060206072349/http://tvilsom.org/roguelike/125.html
http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/39-rpg/23888
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=JauntTrooper_series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Thunderbolt
http://www.tiktok.com/pages/game_addictions/94.11.04_thunderbolt.html

FAQs & Cheats
http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/mainframe/file/mission_thunderbolt.txt
http://www.cheatbook.de/wfiles/missionthinderboltfaq.htm