Terramex

A tricky platform side-scrolling adventure game, Terramex starts with the player asked to choose one of the five adventurers for the journey to find Professor Renegade at his secret laboratory. All the five adventurers are namely Henri Beaucoup (France), Wilbur Fortisque–Smithe (UK), Wu Pong (Japan), Big John Caine (US) and Hans Krusche (Germany).

The selected character will then be accompanied with a number of load bearing native bearers who will assist by picking up the items as the character walks over them. , Pterodactyl-like creatures, acid rain, poisonous snakes and mutants. One of the items called a key item, unique for each character, must be collected by the player to complete the mission. Once all the items are collected, it needs to be given to Renegade who will use them to construct the positronic asteroid deflector (PAD).

Professor Albert Renegade (pun surname Eyestrain), the inventor of the Swiss Army farm animal, had predicted in a farewell letter that an asteroid was heading towards Earth and will complete its course in 40 years, 11 months and 3 days at 4:14 am (Rocky Mountain Time). The scientific community and rest of the world rejected his claims because of which he went into hiding deep into a desert and thus away from the public eye. A month before the asteroid's impact, a group of five people decided to contact Renegade for help as he was the only person on the planet capable enough to build something to destroy it.

Currently located in the deserted high mountains of Tibet, the person selected from the five main characters searches for items and battles different obstacles to navigate the course until they reach a secret laboratory where Renegade is present. These items are then used by Renegade to build a Positron Asteroid Detector (PAD) which is an anti-asteroid device. The PAD is then used for deflecting the incoming asteroid to a different planet, doing which successfully saves Earth.

After the release, it received a mostly positive response from critics across different game magazines namely Compute!, Sinclair User, Your Sinclair, Zzap!64, Commodore User, Computer and Video Games (CVG), Amiga User International (AUI), Advanced Computer Entertainment (ACE), Atari ST User, Amiga Resource, The Games Machine (TGM), and Australian Commodore and Amiga Review (ACAR). CVG found the game graphics on 16 bit machines to be "excellent", and also found the game to have finer detailing for e.g., If the character is asked to carry out a dangerous jump, it shakes its head reluctantly but on second ask it performs the jump. For Zzap64, the reviewers were critical of the game and found it to be "badly crippled by a series of moronic and ambiguous puzzles" and that the problems appear to be "a long series of programmers' in-jokes". Atari ST had a mixed review with praising the game humor while being critical of the character's hesitant nature in dangerous situations.

German retro game archives had mixed reviews with Kultpower being critical of the "run, dodge and collect" style of the game and also it to be not unpredictable that makes the user question utility of the items, and Aktueller Software Markt (ASM) was positive and defined Terramex as the arcade adventure of the year (1988) for Atari ST.