''Pioneer Plague'' is a game designed by Bill Williams for the Amiga computer and published in 1988 by Mandarin Software and Terrific Software. It is one of the few games to use the

Hold-And-Modify Hold-And-Modify, usually abbreviated as HAM, is a display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer. It uses a highly unusual technique to express the color of pixels, allowing many more colors to appear on screen than would otherwise be possible ...

display mode of the Amiga for in-game graphics, a mode which allows thousands of colors to be displayed at once, but in a format that's better suited to static images than moving objects. It may have been the first commercial game to use Hold-And-Modify. ''Pioneer Plague'' was not ported to other systems. Williams also wrote the 1986 Amiga game ''

Mind Walker ''Mind Walker'' is a video game written by Bill Williams and published by Commodore in 1986 as one of the first games for the new Amiga 1000 computer. The player is immersed inside a human brain and must cure a psychosis that is threatening the ...

''.

Reception

''Pioneer Plague'' received an 88% from ''Amiga Computing'' and 86% from ''

Zzap!64 ''Zzap!64'' was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 (C64). It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact. The magazine ...

''. British magazine '' Computer and Video Games'' was less enthusiastic with an overall score of 39%, commending the graphics but criticizing playability.

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