In the second half of 1988, Thalamus returned from a period of relative silence with two new titles. "Hawkeye" marked the commercial debut of The Boys Without Brains, a Dutch collective who had already made a name for themselves within the C64 demo scene. The game was a side-scroller with colourful graphics and a soundtrack from Jeroen Tel. "Armalyte" was a shoot-'em-up in the spirit of R-Type, originally conceived as its own unique identity but publicised as a sequel to "Delta".