Editing Llamatron (section)

==Reception==
''Llamatron'' received positive reviews upon its initial Amiga release. ''[[Amiga Computing]]'' featured ''Llamatron'' as the [[Covermount|cover disk]] for its October 1991 issue, summarizing their positive review by saying "All in all, the most apt comment one can make about Llamatron is that Mr Minter makes exceedingly good shoot-'em-ups."<ref name="AmigaComputing"/> ''[[Amiga Format]]'' reviewed the game in their September 1991 issue, giving it a score of 89% and highlighting its "simple gameplay [that] is fast and massively addictive."<ref name="AmigaFormat"/> The review did mention several sound and graphical glitches, as well as occasional problems with [[collision detection]], but overall recommended it as having "superb value".<ref name="AmigaFormat"/> ''[[Amiga Power]]'', reviewing the game in August 1991, gave it four stars out five, criticizing the graphics as having a "slightly cluttered and unclear look", but praising it overall as "[a]n excellent game that deserves to be supported by anyone who's ever paid out £25 for crap and been cheesed off about it."<ref name="AmigaPower"/> ''[[Zero (video game magazine)|Zero Magazine]]'' recommended it as "a no-nonsense megablast" in its January 1992 issue.<ref name="Zero"/>

''Llamatron'' also received positive reviews for the Atari ST version. Writing for ST News, Richard Karsmakers called the game "brilliant" for its "sheer playability, playing fun and other things that really count. I mean functional graphics that are fun to see, I mean good sonix that fit the game, and I mean oodles and oodles of gameplay."<ref name="STNews"/> Out of 10, Karsmakers gave ''Llamatron'' 7 for graphics, 8.5 for sound, 9 for hookability and playability, and 10 for value, with a concluding remark of "Wonderful! Unbelievable! Playable!".<ref name="STNews"/> A retroactive review of the Amiga ST version by ''[[The Inquirer]]'' in March 2007 said that ''Llamatron'' "without any question [...] is, was, and will always be a great game."<ref name="Inquirer"/> ''The A–Z of Atari ST Games'' by Kieren Hawken gave ''Llamatron'' 10/10, claiming that "[t]he graphics in ''Llamatron'' are great but the biggest props have to go the amazing [sic] digitised sounds [...] [i]t's rare that you will hear sound effects this good in an Atari ST game."<ref name="AtoZ">{{cite book|last = Hawken|first = Kieren|title = The A–Z of Atari ST Games|publisher = Andrews UK Limited|volume = 1|date = 6 June 2017|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CtEnDwAAQBAJ&q=Llamatron&pg=PT90|isbn = 978-1785387012|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180503015115/https://books.google.com/books?id=CtEnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT90&dq=Llamatron&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5hJXnwuTaAhUCfywKHf4dDzcQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=Llamatron&f=false|archive-date = 3 May 2018}}</ref> In 1996, [[GamesMaster (magazine)|GamesMaster]] ranked Llamatron 93rd in their "Top 100 Games of All Time."<ref>{{Cite journal|date = July 1996|title = Top 100 Games of All Time|url = https://retrocdn.net/images/c/cf/GamesMaster_UK_044.pdf|journal = [[GamesMaster (magazine)|GamesMaster]]|issue = 44|page = 74|publisher = [[Summit Media]]|accessdate = 24 July 2022}}</ref>

By March 1992, Minter had collected 800 registrations, which had earned him £4000. With registrations "still arriving" and the Amiga release "just out", he estimated that he would make £10,000, "not as much as a conventional release, but more than a budget game would generate."<ref name="Sales">{{cite news|last = Gerrard|first = Mike|title = Caring about sharing ware|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]|page = 33|date = 26 March 1992|url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19696976/llamatron_sales/|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = 1 May 2018|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180503015116/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19696976/llamatron_sales/|archive-date = 3 May 2018}} {{free access}}</ref> His success was seen as unusual in the shareware market and due in large part to the fact that ''Amiga Computing'' featured ''Llamatron'' as its cover disk. Additionally, Minter was already popular due to Llamasoft's previous games. One critic of the concept, however, noted that "if you compare the response of a few hundred to the tens of thousands of people who have probably played the game, then it works out that quite a low percentage of people have actually sent him money."<ref name="Sales"/>