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THAT OTHER GAME

◼ After wrapping up the C64 version of , Manfred and Andreas intended to port the game to the Amiga – but right then they had neither the time nor the necessary technical understanding to do so. Enter Factor 5, or rather The Light Circle, which was the name of the demo and cracker. They were so enthusiastic about it that on the way back from Hanover to Cologne they decided to create a similarly good shmup on the Amiga – which led to The Light Circle’s very first game.

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