Take a journey back in time with Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

Remember gaming in the 1980s? If so you should be extremely familiar with the works of Jeff Minter; iconic game developer extraordinaire. If that retro scene is your bag, then you should be taking a trip back in time with Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.

Available to purchase and download right now is Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. It’s present on the usual digital stores through Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC. And you should find it present around a price of £24.99. 

A trip back in history

Dip into Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story and you’ll find history like never before. See, this is the latest from Digital Eclipse as they once again allow gamers the chance to enjoy some old classics, working as an interactive docu-game. It’s something that they did with the brilliant The Making of Karateka, and this time they are doing it with the works of Jeff Minter. 

Brought out of a time controlled by cassette tapes and README.TXT, if you’re of a certain age you’ll know all about Jeff Minter. And now, with Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story you’ll get to take in the very best of that era. It plays out as a virtual museum, complete with 42 games picked from 8 different platforms.

And as you may expect, it is also full of design documents, video features and more too. 

We’ve reviewed Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story and you can take in our thoughts right now. 

Key features

Need more selling? The key features that come with Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story include: 

• The acclaimed originals. Play all the Minter classics you’ve heard of (and several you probably haven’t) — Sheep In Space, Andes Attack, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Matrix, Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time, Hellgate, Laser Zone, and many more — now with new quality-of-life features that make them more fun than ever before.
• Gridrunner: Remastered. Digital Eclipse has updated Jeff’s signature shooter masterpiece with thrilling modern graphics and sound, while still running the core of the Commodore 64 version for 100% gameplay accuracy.
• Light synthesizers. Explore two of Jeff Minter’s earliest light synthesizers, Psychedelia and Colourspace, with all-new options and features optimized for controller-based play.

Buy now!

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is on the Xbox Store for £24.99. From there, it’s playable on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. You’ll also find the game on PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC – Steam, GOG.

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Description

Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the 80s and 90s, nobody made games like Jeff Minter. Now, in a new interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse, you can play the history of one of the weirdest, wildest game developers to ever exist – a man who loved shooters and sheep, lasers and llamas.