Thrust Legend

Thrust Legend is a modern remake of Jeremy C. Smith’s 1986 game Thrust. You pilot a spaceship through increasingly hostile planetary caverns, lock onto each enemy power pod with your tractor beam and escape the planet’s gravity to reach space.

Navigate the caverns

Enemy defenses activate automatically when you come near, and are powered by a power station. Shooting the station temporarily stuns the defenses, but it can only take so much damage. Destroying it triggers an explosion whose shock wave engulfs the entire planet, so you must escape before the wave reaches you.

Use your shield to block enemy projectiles and soften impacts with cavern walls. You cannot shoot while the shield is active. Use the fuel extractor above fuel canisters to refuel; running out of fuel ends the game.

Levels and modes

Reaching a planet unlocks it, letting you practice or resume play from that point later. Destroying power stations earns bonus points. You can also earn extra points and achievement stars by completing a mission within set limits for time and fuel, and without losing a life. Legendary Mode starts a play-through from the beginning so you can pursue a high score.

The game includes 29 levels:

• 6 remastered original levels.
• 5 remastered original reverse-gravity levels reworked as underwater levels.
• 6 new levels.
• 6 difficult levels designed by Martin Burchell in 1992 as a mod of the original BBC-B ROM.
• 6 underwater, reverse-gravity versions of those difficult levels.

The soundtrack is an original composition titled “Thrust Legend” by Matt Gray.