{{Short description|1984 video game}} {{Infobox video game | collapsible = | state = | italic title = | title = Psytron | image = Psytron cover.jpg | alt = | caption = | developer = Psy-Sci | publisher = Beyond Software | series = | engine = | platforms = Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum | released = 1984 | genre = | modes = }} '''''Psytron''''' is a 1984 video game developed by Psy-Sci and published by Beyond Software.
==Gameplay== ''Psytron'' is a game in which the player is the automated brain controlling the defense and maintenance aboard a space station that is currently under attack.<ref name="WD56"/>
==Development== ''Psytron'' was programmed by Paul Voysey and Tayo Olowu.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Crash|title=Kerrash! News|page=42|issue=5|date=June 1984|url=https://archive.org/details/crash-magazine-05/page/n42/mode/2up}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Video game reviews |CVG = 30/40<ref name="CVG">{{cite magazine|magazine=Computer and Video Games|title=Reviews|page=28|date=June 1984|issue=32|url=https://archive.org/details/computer-and-video-games-magazine/Computer%20and%20Video%20Games%20032/mode/2up}}</ref>
| award1Pub = ''Crash'' | award1 = Crash Smash<ref>Game review, Crash magazine issue 5, Newsfield Publications June 1984</ref> | award2Pub = ''C&VG'' | award2 = Game of the Month<ref name="CVG"/> }} Carol Hutchins reviewed ''Psytron'' for ''White Dwarf'' #56, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10, and stated that "I found it very exciting and thought that the addition of Freeze Time a very novel twist. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who finds playing wave after wave of identical, invincible opponents is tedious in the extreme."<ref name="WD56">{{cite journal | last =Hutchins | first =Carol | title =Microview | journal =White Dwarf | issue =56 | pages =46 | publisher =Games Workshop | date = August 1984 }}</ref>
==Reviews== *''Crash'' (Jun, 1984) *''Sinclair User'' - Aug, 1984 *''Your Spectrum'' #07 (1984-09)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxsr.php?id=3925 Text of additional reviews] at Spectrum Computing
Category:1984 video games Category:Commodore 64 games Category:Shoot 'em ups Category:Video games about alien invasions Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom Category:ZX Spectrum games