Dream Warrior (1988)

Dream Warrior is an arcade shoot-'em-up released in 1988 by U.S. Gold for the ZX Spectrum 48K/128K. The game was developed by Roger Taylor, Stefan F. Ufnowski, and James Hartshorn under license from Tarann Ltd.

Designed for a single player, the game features AY sound support. It fits firmly within the shoot-'em-up genre, delivering the arcade-style action typical of its era.

The cassette version retailed for £8.99, while the disk version was priced at £12.99. The title was also made available for the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 platforms.

Reviews for the game varied significantly, resulting in an average magazine score of 47.08% across four publications. Ratings ranged from a high of 8/10 in Your Sinclair to a low of 27% in The Games Machine.

In Russia, the game became widely available through numerous cracked cassette versions by hackers such as MAC and V.Vasilevskij. Later, several TR-DOS adaptations were released by Alexey Ermakov, tiboh, and Flash Inc.