IO - THE REMAKE
About IO: The Remake
Trevor Smila Storey tackles the Firebird C64 horizontal shooter, IO. With music by Infamous.
Lets have a Big Fish style bullet point session, because I’m bored, k…
- 4 levels of brutally hardcore shooting action.
- 4 Bosses and things, might be some other stuff as well to add arbitery numbers to this list.
- Lots of enemy types for you to shoot! Probably not unique ones though
- No bumtazer. But then again, they may not exist :s
Screenshots:
About The Original:
Originally released in 1988 by Firebird, IO garnered an 80% from Zzap 64 magazine.
“A graphically superb shoot em up which, although unoriginal, is both challenging and playable”
Read the original review at Zzap64
Play the original IO courtesy of Gamebase64 (c64 emulator required)
Download IO: The Remake
IO is free to download and play. And by that we don’t mean “here’s a demo, pay us in an hour or you’re screwed” it really is free to download and play and won’t timeout, is unlimited and we’re not going to nag you at any point for money because we actually understand the meaning of the word “free” and don’t like to bend your brain with marketing bullshit.
IO: The Remake is available from Mersey Remakes and may not be distributed on magazine coverdisks etc… without prior permission, and that also includes you rip off merchants nicking our games and selling them. 
Please link to this page and not to the file as the file location may change.
Shut up, just let me download the game, man! (right click, save as)
Sorry Mac/Linux owners, IO is PC only. You’ll just have to buy a decent computer so you can run it or commit the ultimate sacrilege if you’re a Macwanker and use bootcamp or something. Linux users, there’s probably no hope. Its a hard life I know!
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tim on 
Frankly, I didn’t like this game. The hit detection is too loose, the controls are near deaf, it’s sonically sterile and lacks the excitement that made Nemesis and R-Type so popular.
Also, what is the deal with the extra weapons? Is more rapid fire the only upgrade? I have never played the original, but I seem to remember it had lasers, spinning orbs and the like.
I was rather disappointed — after all, the SMILA intro usually precedes releases of the highest quality, such as the Total Eclipse remake.
IO is good for about 5 minutes, then you’ll get bored and never play it again.
Real cool !
Make more remakes ^^
cya
You can play this game on Linux using WINE
It works very well ;). So Linux users doesn’t have bad luck. And “PC” is not automatically Windows machine, I have GNU/Linux on PC 
Other power ups are available eg two orbs one above and one below.
Anyway of saving where you are up to or cheats?
the only difference i can see in the weapons is that the orbs dont move up and down slightly. apart from that the weapons are the same.
its much easier than the c64 version so thumbs up there.
still hard but i can get further on this version that the original.
nice work
“Anyway of saving where you are up to or cheats?”
Dunno, you’d have to ask Mr S! If I catch him I’ll ask though.
there is a cheat for 99 lives.
and its ………
Hi Smila
thanks for the brilliant IO game. What I meant by a cheat is really a feature that would let you save a level when you have finished it ( like Exolon DX does) so that you can start any level once you have finished it.
It can be tedious having to play all levels so that you can do level 4( if you reach it!)
By making the game playable only in one sitting with only 5 lives all of the work done on the higher levels might never be seen (unless someone has finished the game).
Thanks again.
i didnt add a save game soz.
there’s only 4 levels so learning the attack patterns doesnt take too long.
maybe i’ll add a save game when i get some time.
btw , ive had mails from 3 people who had completed it :).
and i was told i made it to easy compaired to the orig.
Awesome Remake. Thanx for the time you spent doing this, it was a great pleasure to play one of the hardest C-64 games with updated graphics!
I hope you will make more games, the Delta Remake was also very enjoyable!
Regards from Germany
Pierre
thanks pierre , almost finished another 3 remakes - a monty mole game , wizball , exile