Other prominent games developers include Julian Gollop ( Chaos, Rebelstar, X-COM series ), Matthew Smith ( Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy ), Jon Ritman ( Match Day, Head Over Heels ), Jonathan " Joffa " Smith ( Ping Pong, Batman: The Caped Crusader, Mikie, HyperSports ), The Oliver Twins ( the Dizzy series ), Clive Townsend ( Saboteur ), Sandy White ( Ant Attack, I of the mask ), Pete Cooke ( Tau Ceti ), Mike Singleton ( The Lords of Midnight, War In Middle Earth ), and Alan Cox.

Because of the series ' popularity, various developers have created spiritual successor games similar in theme and tone of the X-COM games ( sometimes called " X-COM clones "; Gollop also himself called turn-based tactical game genre in general as " sons of Rebelstar " in a reference to one of his earlier games ).

The game expanded on the ideas applied in their previous Rebelstar series of games.

The Rebelstar games are a series of turn-based tactics video games designed by Julian Gollop.

The games in the Rebelstar series achieved critical acclaim, and form the beginning of a development history that led to the Laser Squad and X-COM series.

All three games in the series were re-released as part of The Rebelstar Collection, a compilation of Gollop's games published in 1991 by Mythos Games.

* Rebelstar series at MobyGames

According to Julian Gollop, developer of X-COM and Rebelstar: Tactical Command, Advance Wars, besides being influential, opened up the market for similar games on handheld video game systems.

Rebelstar and Laser Squad are among the earliest examples of turn based unit level wargame video games.

Some of the name choices for characters and organizations in the games of Mythos and Codo are a thread connecting all the Laser Squad and Rebelstar games.

Rebelstar Raiders was originally released for the 48k ZX Spectrum in 1984 by Red Shift Ltd, a war games publisher who had also released Gollop's space strategy game Nebula.

The Raiders ' squad also includes Captain Krenon, a character who features in the two later Rebelstar games.

Codo Technologies has released two games: Laser Squad Nemesis, a PC turn-based tactics game and Rebelstar: Tactical Command, a Game Boy Advance turn-based tactical role-playing game.

Rebelstar ( 1984 ) and Laser Squad ( 1988 ) were precursors to X-COM created by the same developer, Julian Gollop.

The Game Boy Advance would also see the release of Rebelstar: Tactical Command ( 2005 ) by X-COM creators, Nick and Julian Gollop.

Rebelstar: Tactical Command, a Game Boy Advance game released in 2005, was developed by the team behind X-COM and released by Namco.

** In 2005, Codo Technologies and publisher Namco also released the Game Boy Advance turn-based tactics game Rebelstar: Tactical Command, which was as well reminiscent of the early Battlescape system.

Rebelstar, but not its sequel, was also adapted for the Amstrad CPC home computer.

Rebelstar was also ranked as the second greatest Spectrum game of all time by Your Sinclair, which held Rebelstar as an example of how the wargaming genre could be " an experience unrivalled for thrills by all but the most adrenalin-pumping blaster ".

Rebelstar II ( also known as Rebelstar 2 or Rebelstar II: Alien Encounter ) was published in 1988 on Telecomsoft's Silverbird label ( their rebranded budget range ).

Rebelstar Raiders was published in 1984 by Red Shift for the ZX Spectrum personal computer.

It was reworked in machine code as Rebelstar, published by Firebird in 1986.

A sequel, Rebelstar II, was published in 1988 by Silverbird.

Rebelstar was originally published in 1986 by Telecomsoft's budget label, Firebird.

CRASH gave Rebelstar II an overall 90 %, highlighting the excellent graphics and engrossing gameplay: " it can all get very exhilarating to see laser bolts flying back and forth, occasionally missing by pixels.

Rebelstar: Psionic Rebellion was a cancelled " high production value AAA title due to be released at the end of 2008, early 2009 on Xbox 360 and PS3 " which was being developed by Kuju Entertainment for Namco.

Rebelstar Raiders does not feature a computer-controlled opponent, so is strictly a two-player game.

Objects are more interactive than in Rebelstar Raiders, with units able to drop or collect weapons, ammunition, dead bodies, and other items.

The objective for the Raiders in Rebelstar is to destroy ISAAC, the computer responsible for breaking the Raiders ' secret codes.

CRASH gave Rebelstar 93 %, making it a Crash Smash.

The scenario takes place on the planet of Thray 6, on which an alien race is threatening Rebelstar.

In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode for the television series Leave It to Beaver, but his parents decided not to let him continue in the role so that he could have a normal childhood.

In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the television series Leave It to Beaver.

Each issue contained biographical information on many major costumed characters ; these biographies were a precursor to Marvel's series of reference material, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, which followed shortly on the heels of Contest of Champions.

In 1977, DARPA created a packet radio network called PRNET in the San Francisco Bay area and conducted a series of experiments with SRI to verify the use of ARPANET ( a precursor to the Internet ) communications protocols ( later known as IP ) over packet radio links between mobile and fixed network nodes.

Later that year, he was commissioned by the BBC to write and star in Q5, the first in the innovative " Q " TV series, acknowledged as an important precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus, which premiered several months later.

As a creator-owned book, Groo has survived the bankruptcy of a number of publishers, a fact which led to the industry joke that publishing the series was a precursor to a publisher's demise.

In like fashion, he reimagined space opera and planetary romance in his " Viagens Interplanetarias " series, and the prehistoric precursor civilizations characteristic of much heroic fantasy in his " Pusadian series ".

The precursor to these was the radio series ( 1950-1952 ) Tales of the Texas Rangers, a contemporary detective drama set in Texas, featuring many of the characteristics of traditional Westerns.

1968 introduced the Endura ' rubber ' front bumper on the GTO, the precursor to modern cars ' integrated bumpers, and the first of a series " Ram Air " engines, which featured the induction of cold air to the carburetor ( s ) for more power, and took away some of the sting from deleting the famous Tri-Power multiple carburation option from the engine line up.

A precursor was Paul Féval, whose series Les Habits Noirs ( 1862 – 67 ) features Scotland Yard detectives and criminal conspiracies.

* Cameo appearance in the season-five episode " A Much Underestimated Man " of the TV detective series Strangers ( a precursor to the series Bulman )

ET on weekends ) included Video Comic Book, and the long-running Pinwheel ( now formatted as a daily hour-long series that ran in a 3 – 5 hour block format, and was a precursor to the Nick Jr. block ) along with other shows such as America Goes Bananaz, Nickel Flicks and By the Way.

The second series of test spacecraft being a precursor to manned circumlunar loop flights used a stripped-down variant of Soyuz spacecraft, consisting of the service and descent modules, but lacking the orbital module.

The sometimes eerie tone and unconventional literary devices have evoked some to identify the series as a precursor to slipstream fiction.

The pathways are a series of reactions, in which a zymogen ( inactive enzyme precursor ) of a serine protease and its glycoprotein co-factor are activated to become active components that then catalyze the next reaction in the cascade, ultimately resulting in cross-linked fibrin.

In addition to appearing on numerous comedy, variety, and dramatic series, Adams had a role on the NBC sitcom The Bill Dana Show ( 1963 – 1965 ), as a bumbling hotel detective named Byron Glick — a character Adams created that was the precursor to the role he would play as " Maxwell Smart " on Get Smart.

FGC's history can be traced back to a series of precursor conferences held between 1868 and 1900.

", a ten-part series of documentaries which dealt with the connection between blues music and Black Americans ' African heritage, as well as what Angelou called the " Africanisms still current in the U. S ." for National Educational Television, the precursor of PBS.

The precursor to the Gravitation manga was a dōjinshi series titled Help !, which followed a similar story line but cast the characters in slightly different roles.

The Time Tunnel is a precursor to the Back to the Future series, Time Changer, and later TV series such as Quantum Leap in which most episodes feature the cast traveling to a unique place and / or time.