Being the tender age of 28 that I am, I missed out on the hubbub for Yars' Revengeback when it was released for the Atari 2600 in 1981 due to suffering from a debilitating case of not quite yet being born. It was one of the best-selling games for that console, though I was only able to dabble with it through emulators and the occasional fan-created homage. Considering the infancy of the gaming industry at the time, Yars' Revenge was a fun little shooter that featured such ground-breaking technology such as diagonal movement, which might sound silly today but was pretty big stuff 30 years ago.
Nostalgia plays a big role in the videogame industry, which is why I really shouldn't be surprised that developer Killspace Entertainment decided to remake the game for today's audience. Yars' Revenge didn't really have epic-length fiction to begin with, soYar's Revenge (with the moved apostrophe) doesn't have much to work with either. The story, such that it is, involves a human-like insect girl named Yar, captured and enslaved as a hitman (hitbug?) for an evil race of aliens called the Qotile. After a couple missions, she breaks free of her enslavement, then starts her rampage against her captors.
MINIMUM
Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium III or AMD Athlon 800MHz Processor
256MB RAM
2GB Hard Disk Space
Nvidia TNT2, GeForce 1, 2 or 3, ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500 or 8500, or Matrox G450 Video Card
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
DirectX 9
MAXIMUM
Windows 7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)
Intel i7 Quad Core 2.8Ghz or AMD equivalent
3GB System RAM (High)
30 GB Hard dDisk Space
nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD4850 Video Card
Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live
DirectX 9.0 - DirectX 11
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