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Guardian (Amiga CD32)

Guardian is the Kiwi love child of Star Fox and Defender.

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Development Text#

On the disc there is an old version of the startup-sequence file called startup-sequence.bak. Checking inside it shows it's exactly the same as the final file, except the line that calls the main executable tries to load a file called "sw" instead of "game". This almost certainly due to the fact the game was originally called "SibleyWing" as described in pre-release articles on the game.

Developer Message#

Being an Amiga game, there is the mandatory hidden rant against pirates. It can be found inside the main executable "game":

(C) 1994 ACID SOFTWAREPIRATES FUCK OFF