Komplex (ZX, 1985)

After the flop that was The Great Space Race, Legend had to make amends. The best way to do this would probably have been to create Valhalla 2, the game everybody was waiting for. Instead, they forsook Movisoft and cinematic games completely, and created a classic arcade game. A bit too classic, maybe: one reviewer saw it just as a thinly disguised version of Battlezone, a 1980 coin-op that had just recently been ported to various home platforms.

Besides, they were willing to make amends in a quite tangible form, by offering a rebate to disgruntled TGSR owners. Your Sinclair commented it a bit sarcastically:

Legend has also come up with an idea for recompensing all those of you who weren't exactly enamoured by The Great Space Race. All you have to do, is rip-off (you'll have had some experience of that) the TGSR poster from your wall and send it with a fiver to Legend […]. In return they'll send you a copy of Komplex.

It did not garner very favorable reviews (the best thing one reviewer had to say about it was that, like its predecessor, it was better than Valium), but it does seem that Legend managed to regain some trust with their poster rebate.

Komplex City

[Komplex City screenshot] Komplex was supposed to be the first of a trilogy. However, only one more game, Komplex City, was finished. It got far better press than its predecessor, but seems to have vanished completely. A few sites pretend to offer the ROM for download, but it inevitably turns out to be Komplex instead, and the only screenshots you can find are from magazine scans. World of Spectrum lists it as missing in action.

It seems that Komplex City was Legend's last release, and neither the third game in the series nor a sequel to Valhalla ever saw the light of day.

Komplex

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Komplex City

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