N.O.M.A.D.

Guide the N.O.M.A.D. 471 attack droid through Cyrus T. Gross's asteroid fortress and bring the galaxy's most wanted criminal to justice.

A 3D remake of Ocean's 1986 C64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC shooter, made by TCKSoft in 2004 and now rebuilt to play in your browser and on modern Windows. Fly room by room through spaceport, slums, city centre and HQ, blast gun turrets and Robothugs, dodge homing missiles, flip the gate switches and take on Gross himself in his inner sanctum.

Controls

Action	Keyboard	Controller
Turn and thrust	Cursor keys (down brakes)	Left stick or d-pad
Fire blasters	Ctrl, Z, X or Space	A, B, X, bumpers or triggers
Camera angled / overhead	C	Y
Music on / off	F1	–
Start game	Ctrl	Any button
Enter your name	Type on the title screen	–
High score tables	Hold Enter on the title screen	–
Back to title	Esc	Back / Select
Fullscreen	F11 or Alt+Enter	–

In the browser, press a key or click first to switch the sound on.

The mission

Out in the vastness of space lies the heart of an Intergalactic Criminal Network, TALOS, a man-made asteroid slowly spinning through the void, spreading its evil through the Universe. At the head of this seemingly unstoppable force sits one man, the unspeakably vile Cyrus T. Gross.

A name spoken only in whispered voices, Gross is the embodiment of all that is criminal. Avoiding any attempt to curtail his ever spreading empire, he has crushed all opposition and seems invincible, ruling his depraved Zealots with a fist of iron and a heart of ice.

In a last ditch attempt, the rulers of the Free Worlds have called in the Nemesis organisation, a hardened cadre of humanoid and robotic freebooters who have assigned N.O.M.A.D. 471 (Nemesis Organisation Mobile Attack Droid) to penetrate Gross's heavily armed homeworld and destroy this vile despot once and for all.

Your mission is to guide N.O.M.A.D. through the four sections of Capital City towards Gross's inner sanctum. You arrive at the spaceport and must then progress through the slums, into the city centre and penetrate the HQ, "Dun Dentin'", before you reach his personal quarters for the final deadly confrontation.

Many dangers await you in all sections of Capital City. In true cowardly style, Gross has installed magnetrons, heat-seeking missiles, and an infinity of equally deadly obstacles, all of which must be confronted and conquered.

N.O.M.A.D. 471 specifications

Autonomous war-droid with high-intelligence, infra-red visual receptors and high-frequency audio-receivers. Fitted with anti-gravity pods and twin thrusters functional in both forward and backward directions and capable of great speeds with a high degree of manoeuvrability.

Armament: titanium body shell ... not totally impregnable. Two magnum 57 calibre blasters. The N.O.M.A.D. 471 series is as yet untested. This is his first and possibly deadliest mission. The chances of survival are slim ...

The freedom of the Universe is in your hands. We salute you!

Playing features

• Inertia – your droid will not stop instantly if you cease acceleration but will slowly decelerate. Applying the 'brakes' slows you faster, or turn 180 degrees and thrust – handy for shooting things that are chasing you.
• Magnetic walls – Cyrus has placed large banks of Magnetrons along some of the city walls. When active they attract N.O.M.A.D.'s metallic armour, luring him towards the guns and slowing him down.
• Homing missiles – these appear from silos in the surface of the asteroid and once targeted are difficult to lose.
• Artillery – the whole asteroid is heavily fortified with some of the most efficient heat guns in the known Universe. Even to be caught in the blast from one of these shells is instant death.
• Robothugs – Gross's personal protectors, programmed to make a suicide run at anyone who looks as if they might be thinking about attacking their master.
• Gateways and switches – the sections of the asteroid are partitioned by gateways, opened and closed by brushing past the switches on the side walls. Thanks to the appalling maintenance droids, a switch may not open the door you expect!

High scores and downloads

The 20 best scores and 20 fastest winning times are kept on your machine (in the browser, or in hiscore.dat beside the exe on Windows). Editing hiscore.dat resets the tables.

Windows download: NOMAD.exe is the whole game in one file – just unzip and run. It needs a graphics card or driver with OpenGL 3.3 (roughly 2010 onwards).

Credits

• Code: The Caffeine Kid (TCKSoft)
• Graphics: Smila
• Music: Skaven / Future Crew
• Original game © 1986 Ocean Software
• Remake © 2004 TCKSoft, ported 2026