Platform: Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Region: PAL
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ReleaseDate: 1985-04-01
Players: 1
Co-op: No
Crossfire
HAVE YOU EVER wanted to mindlessly massacre millions of miserable morons, shoot or severely savage stupid spaceships or even angrily annihilate all available aliens? If your answer is yes to any of these then this game is for you. In this game you may fire away at any alien in sight and they won't even shoot back. What is more once you wipe out one batch you get another batch to take your anger out on-violent isn't it? As the aliens don't shoot back this may sound like a simple game but unfortunately there is a certain great lumbering idiot who may shoot you - yourself. This is because not only can you shoot aliens with your beasty blasting bases, you can also blast holes in your tracks reducing your mobility or even worse, you can zap your own laser base. This is all due to the screen layout of your bases. They are mounted on tracks on each of the four sides of the screen and controls work on pairs of bases. If you move your top base you also move your bottom base and if you fire you fire from all four bases. However if you fire and the bullet hits the opposite track, a hole forms and your laser base on that side can not move past it. If you shoot the hole again it fills it in. The object of the game is to blast all the aliens into their component quarks, there are eight screens - freaky flying saucers, docile dumbbells, artful asteroids, segmented centipedes, turning tops, bouncing balls, hysterical helicopters and slithering snakes. All these move in smooth pixel graphics and are animated. On each screen there are eight aliens at a time. However, when you have killed, maimed or destroyed those eight, another eight appear to allow you to continue your vicious work. Each alien is worth a number of points corresponding to the level you are on. This number is also deducted from the scored titled "needed". This must be reduced to zero before you are allowed on to the next level and on each level the amount of points needed increases. If you do not get enough points you restart the same round. You can only go on to the next level when you have lasted for 60 seconds on that screen there is a bar chart under the screen showing the time. The game ends when all four of your bases are destroyed. You get a new set of four bases every four rounds you survive.
ESRB Rating: Not Rated
Genre(s): Shooter