Editing Project-X

{{short description|1992 video game}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Other uses|Project X (disambiguation){{!}}Project X}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Project-X
|image = ProjectX-Box Art.jpg
|developer = [[Team17]]
|publisher = Team17
|designer = 
|engine = 
|released = [[1992 in video gaming|1992]]
|genre = [[Scrolling shooter]]
|modes = [[Single player]], [[Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]]
|composer = [[Allister Brimble]]
|platforms = [[Amiga]], [[MS-DOS]], [[Amiga CD32]] (special edition)
}}
'''''Project-X''''' is a [[scrolling shooter|horizontally scrolling shooter]] developed and published by [[Team17]] for the [[Amiga]] in 1992. It was ported to [[MS-DOS]] and the [[Amiga CD32]]. The game resembles [[Konami]]'s side-scrolling shooter games such as ''[[Gradius (video game)|Gradius]]'', ''[[Salamander (video game)|Salamander]]'' and ''[[Parodius (1990 video game)|Parodius]]''.

==Plot==
Taking place many years in the future in colonized space, military scientists have disposed of countless, defective military droids on an un-colonized terrestrial planet called Ryxx. The droids eventually become sentient and, by way of revenge, start an attack against mankind, using a station to continually create more war machines. It is the player's mission to undergo Project X and eliminate the droid forces.

==Gameplay==
Players control a spacecraft of their choice, battling hundreds of alien ships. Various [[power-up]]s, frequent in the first level, but progressively rare afterwards, permit an exponential increase of the spacecraft's seven different weapons (Guns, Buildup, Side Shots, Homing Missiles, Plasma, Magma, and Laserbeam).

The game is composed of five levels. Many players never completed the second one (which had a very difficult ending), and most of the rest never went past level three. When Team17 realized this, they released ''Project-X SE'' on [[Amiga CD32]], a special edition with the difficulty toned down. It was released as a budget game.<ref name=Budget/> A hack for the original game to enable the player to skip levels by holding down the fire button and pressing the escape key was also distributed on the coverdisks of several Amiga magazines.

==Reception==
According to ''[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]'', ''Project-X'' was highly successful in Europe, but only sold in moderate numbers in the U.S.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=In the Studio|magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=23 |publisher=[[Imagine Media]] |date=November 1996|page=17}}</ref> ''Amiga Computing'' called it one of the best shooter games for that platform at the time, both for its technical excellence in graphics and sounds, and for its difficult and interesting gameplay.<ref name=AmigaComputing/>

==Legacy==
The game was followed by a [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]]-only sequel, titled ''[[X2 (video game)|X2]]'' in 1996. A second sequel, ''Project X: Light Years'', is currently in development.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yarwood |first1=Jack |title=Team17 Gives 'Project X' Kickstarter Successor The Thumbs Up |url=https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/09/team17-gives-project-x-kickstarter-successor-the-thumbs-up |website=[[Time Extension]] |publisher=[[Hookshot Media]] |access-date=23 September 2024 |date=23 September 2024}}</ref>

The game was parodied in one level of Team17's own ''[[Superfrog]]'', as ''Project-F'' (with the 'F' presumably standing for "Frog"), even going as far as using a remixed version of the original game's theme tune.<ref name=Guinness/>

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=AmigaComputing>{{cite journal |last=Maddock |first=Jonathan |date=June 1992 |title=Project-X review |url=http://amr.abime.net/review_8151 |journal=Amiga Computing |volume=49  |access-date=7 August 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=Budget>{{cite book |last=Tenas |first=Ignacio Rufas |date=2015 |title=Catálogo en Color de Juegos para Commodore Amiga: Volumen 2 |page=206 |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |isbn=9781904994473}}</ref>
<ref name=Guinness>{{cite book |title=Guinness world records 2009: Gamer's edition |publisher=Guinness World Records Ltd |page=152 |isbn=9781291004427}}</ref>
}}

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[[Category:1992 video games]]
[[Category:Amiga games]]
[[Category:Amiga CD32 games]]
[[Category:DOS games]]
[[Category:Horizontally scrolling shooters]]
[[Category:Team17 games]]
[[Category:Video games scored by Allister Brimble]]
[[Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games]]
[[Category:Science fiction video games]]