{"id":548,"date":"2025-05-17T23:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=548"},"modified":"2025-05-17T23:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:25:48","slug":"pyxidis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Pyxidis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Strange name, but still a cool game! A vertically scrolling shooter, with ground and air-based shooting, multi-colour sprite use, challenge stages, power-ups and end-of-stage bosses.\u00a0To get this one to fit in the SVI-318&#8217;s 16k of RAM (12k practically available), I had to make the 3rd level a little shorter than I had originally designed and drop the music that I had created (probably a good thing &#8211; music is definitely NOT my strong point).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game is quite challenging, and it can take a bit of effort to get through all three stages. Then the movement clock is doubled, making a harder set of the same three levels to get through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still to this day regret that I was never able to produce the 1,000 copy sample requested by ASCII corporation in Japan. It is interesting to postulate on what would have happened next.\u00a0Pyxidis was still the biggest selling title from Electric Adventures (followed by Video Graffiti and Frontier), with\u00a0many of my later teenage computer collection funded by the sale of the titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"476\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-49.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-49.png 638w, https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-49-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-50.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-550\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange name, but still a cool game! A vertically scrolling shooter, with ground and air-based shooting, multi-colour sprite use, challenge stages, power-ups and end-of-stage bosses.\u00a0To get this one to fit in the SVI-318&#8217;s 16k of RAM (12k practically available), I had to make the 3rd level a little shorter than I had originally designed and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legacy-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}