Takatis is a free classic 2D side-scrolling shoot'em up game that is meant as a tribute to the works of Manfred Trenz, especially his game Katakis on the C64.

Fight your way through twelve action-packed levels while blasting enemies, dodging asteroids and battling huge bosses. Upgrade your ship's three different primary weapon systems and collect additional extra-weapons and other powerups along the way.

The game will also be re-released for Steam soon.

Features

• 12 stages in 6 unique worlds

• many different powerups including weapon upgrades, special weapons, shields

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Trivia

• Takatis was the first release of the team poke 53280, a hobby-game-dev group that I founded in early 2000 together with Heiko TheWanderer Kalista

• All gamecode was written by TheWanderer while I created music, sounds, graphics and levels

• It was developed in C++ using MS Visual Studio 6.0 and DirectX 7

• The background image in world four is a picture of the original Commodore 64 circuit board

• We showed Manfred Trenz an unreleased version. He liked it, but disliked the player's ship, so we changed it last minute

• The ending song contains a short passage from the Last Ninja soundtrack

• The ship can be changed to the original Katakis sprite from the C64 when using a cheatcode. Just google around a bit :)