Players had to use their weapons strategically to survive the onslaught of alien forces. The game featured a unique combination of both arcade and simulation elements. As a top-down shooter game, it placed the player in the cockpit of a space fighter, where they were in control of a variety of weapons to battle alien forces. You can imagine the equipment snobs horror when I told them what I used when they were using equipment that could have easily been 30x more expensive and their results were no where near as good.Spectre, released in 1992, was a DOS game developed by Cygnus Software and published by Mindscape. So I entered something from the X8 (which if memory served cost £85) and won the competition (which was judged on the number of likes) by a country mile. Anyway, they hosted a competition for a winter shot. Anyway a friend invited me to a Facebook online camera club which was full of people bragging about how they “only” spent £3000 on a lens. A long time ago when I was not in as good a financial situation as I am now I owned a Sony Ericsson Xperia X8. Equipment / brand snobbery in photography is boring and vapid don't be one of those people. My Canon, lens and battery grip also collectively weigh 20x as much as my iPhone, doesn't fit in my pocket, and doesn't go everywhere with me. I have taken some pictures on my iPhone that look as good as or potentially better than what I could capture on my Canon. The best tool to create art is whatever you have, and whatever you make of it. I'm a self-proclaimed "pretty serious" photographer, I have a Canon 7D MK II and a great lens for it.
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