Developer The Bitmap Brothers
Publisher Renegade Software
Released 1993
Format PC, Amiga CD32, SNES, Mega Drive, Amiga, Atari ST
Get it Steam, GOG, eBay, car boot sales
Thumping techno; blasting hand-cannons; working with your sibling, friend, parent, guardian, enemy, grandma; chanting along with the voiceover man as he proclaims ‘EXIT OPEN’; dying repeatedly because it’s way too difficult – The Chaos Engine has gone down in history as an impactful game for many a reason. All of them are shared experiences, while at the same time they’re all deeply personal – the Amiga game is a legend for far too many reasons to count.
The origin
Someone at The Bitmap Brothers had played Gauntlet when they were younger and liked it quite a lot. Enough, in fact, that they decided…
