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Robot Attack
''Robot Attack'' is a clone of the arcade game '' Berzerk'' written by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu for the TRS-80 and published by Big Five Software in 1981. It was the first game from Big Five to include speech. Gameplay ''Robot Attack'' is a game in which the player fights against hostile robots aboard a space station. The player starts in a mazelike room full of robots, and the goal is to destroy the robots and exit the room. The maze walls, robots, and the robots' shots are all deadly. After a while in each room, an indestructible "flagship" appears which performs the same function as Evil Otto in ''Berzerk''. Development Bill Hogue recorded the voice lines on tape and digitized them through the TRS-80 cassette port. Reception Ian Chadwick reviewed ''Robot Attack'' in '' Ares Magazine'' #12 and commented that "''Robot Attack'' is highly recommended for the nimble fingered arcade buff and even more so for the curious programmer who wishes to discover the secrets behind the usu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Five Software
Big Five Software ( Big 5 Software) was an American video game developer in the first half of the 1980s founded by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu. The company released games for the Tandy TRS-80 and later the Atari 8-bit family. Most of its TRS-80 games were clones of arcade games of the time, such as '' Galaxy Invasion'' (''Galaxian''), ''Super Nova'' (''Asteroids''), ''Defense Command'' (''Missile Command''), and ''Meteor Mission'' (''Lunar Rescue''). Big Five also sold an Atari joystick interface called TRISSTICK which was popular with TRS-80 owners. The company's most successful release was original: the 10-stage platform game ''Miner 2049er'', released for the Atari 8-bit family in 1982 and widely ported to other systems. Hogue stopped developing games after Big Five's final release, '' Bounty Bob Strikes Back'' (1984-85). In 2007, he released a free, custom emulation of the Atari 8-bit versions of ''Miner 2049'er'' and ''Bounty Bob Strikes Back'' for Microsoft Windows. Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robon
''Robon'' is a clone of '' Berzerk'' for the ZX Spectrum written by Andrew Beale and released by Softek in 1983. The game's documentation refers to it as a "version of the popular arcade game." Reception ''Crash'' magazine said, "This ''Frenzy'' / ''Berserk'' game, unlike most of Softek’s other programs, is not very good. At the slowest of the nine skill levels it’s a bit boring, and at the fastest it’s quite meaningless. The usual format is followed; electrified walls, robots, unkillable ‘Raboks’ which leave exploding mines behind". See also *''Robot Attack'' *''K-Razy Shoot-Out'' *''Thief Theft is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word ''theft'' is also used as a synonym or informal shorthand term for some ...'' References External links * * {{Softek Software series 1983 video games Multidirectional shooters Video games develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Five Software Games
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1981 Video Games
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Creative Computing
''Creative Computing'' was one of the earliest magazines covering the microcomputer revolution. Published from October 1974 until December 1985, the magazine covered the spectrum of hobbyist/home/personal computing in a more accessible format than the rather technically oriented ''Byte (magazine), Byte''. The magazine was created to cover educational-related topics. Early issues include articles on the use of computers in the classroom, various simple programs like madlibs and various programming challenges, mostly in BASIC programming language, BASIC. By the late 1970s, it had moved towards more general coverage as the microcomputer market emerged. Hardware coverage became more common, but type-in programs remained common into the early 1980s. The company published several books, the most successful being ''BASIC Computer Games'', the first million-selling computer book. Their ''Best of Creative Computing'' collections were also popular. ''Creative Computing'' also published so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
80 Micro
''80 Micro'' was a computer magazine, published between 1980 and 1988, that featured program listings, products and reviews for the TRS-80. History Wayne Green, the creator of many magazines such as '' 73'', founded ''80 Microcomputing'' as a spinoff of his ''Kilobaud Microcomputing'' solely for Tandy Corporation's Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I microcomputer. Like his other magazines it encouraged readers to submit articles and reviews. A 1980 advertisement for the magazine promised that it would "tell you the truth … the good things about the TRS-80 and the not so good" because "Wayne Green has never been one to mince words". By 1982 ''80 Micro'' was the third largest magazine in terms of obtaining advertising, selling 152,000 issues; only ''Vogue'' and ''BYTE'' were larger. Renamed ''80 Micro'' on issue 30 in June/July 1982, the magazine's November 1982 issue had 518 pages, the most in its history for a regular issue. Green attributed the magazine's success to Radio Shack's po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thief (Apple II Game)
''Thief'' is an Apple II multidirectional shooter written by Bob Flanagan and published by Datamost in 1981. It is a clone of the 1980 arcade game '' Berzerk'' from Stern Electronics. Gameplay The game puts the player in control of a thief that must make his way through simple mazes, though there are no objects to actually steal. Each level is populated by stocky, possibly robotic guards that converge on the player, and which the player must either shoot or evade. See also * ''K-Razy Shoot-Out'' * '' Robon'' * ''Robot Attack ''Robot Attack'' is a clone of the arcade game '' Berzerk'' written by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu for the TRS-80 and published by Big Five Software in 1981. It was the first game from Big Five to include speech. Gameplay ''Robot Attack'' is a ga ...'' References {{reflist 1981 video games Apple II games Apple II-only games Datamost games Multidirectional shooters Video games developed in the United States Video game clones Single-player video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-Razy Shoot-Out
''K-Razy Shoot-Out'' is a clone of the arcade game '' Berzerk'' developed by K-Byte, a division of Kay Enterprises, and released for the Atari 8-bit family in 1981. The game was written by Torre Meeder and Keith Dreyer, and was the first Atari 8-bit cartridge from a third-party developer. An Atari 5200 version followed in 1983. The team of Dreyer and Meeder also wrote the 1983 Atari 8-bit game '' Boulders and Bombs''. ''K-Razy Shoot-Out'' is part of a series of titles with the "K-" prefix, including ''K-Razy Kritters'' and ''K-Star Patrol''. All of them were published on cartridge. After CBS Software purchased K-Byte, the games were published under the CBS brand, including the Atari 5200 port of ''K-Razy Shoot-Out''. Gameplay As in ''Berzerk'', the goal is to destroy all of the robots occupying a series of randomly generated mazes. In ''Berzerk'', if the player takes too long to clear a maze, an indestructible bouncing ball ("Evil Otto") drives the player to an exit. ''K-Razy Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TRS-80
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. The name is an abbreviation of ''Tandy Radio Shack, Z80 icroprocessor'. It is one of the earliest mass-produced and mass-marketed retail home computers. The TRS-80 has a full-stroke QWERTY keyboard, the Zilog Z80 processor, 4 KB dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) standard memory, small size and desk area, floating-point Level I BASIC language interpreter in read-only memory (ROM), 64-character per line video monitor, and a starting price of US$600 (equivalent to US$ in ). A cassette tape drive for program storage was included in the original package. While the software environment was stable, the cassette load/save process combined with keyboard bounce issues and a troublesome Expansion Interface contributed to the Model I's reputation as not well-suited to serious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
