Sol Negro

Sol Negro is a product of Opera Soft, one of the flagship studios of the so-called Golden Age of Spanish software in the 1980s. Released in 1988, it belongs to the wave of action-platform titles that Spanish developers turned out for the 8-bit machines of the era before the PC became the dominant home platform. Opera Soft built its reputation on distinctive, often colourful arcade games, and this title sits within that tradition of European home-computer action.

As a curiosity it is most interesting to players exploring the Spanish 8-bit catalogue, a scene that produced a large body of idiosyncratic games that rarely travelled far outside their home market.