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Atari ST - Atari Corporation - 1987

Moonbase

Moonbase — screenshot 11 / 9
Genre
Shoot'em Up! - Multi-Directional
Year
1987
Language
[unknown]
Publisher
Atari Corporation
Controls
Joystick / Keyboard
Distributor
Atari (UK)
Players
1 / Demo
Developer
[n/a]
Resolution
Low
Licensed from
-
Programmer(s)
Smaje, John
Country
United Kingdom
Graphic Artist(s)
Smaje, John / Cain, StevenHolland, Martin
Software
English
Game design
Smaje, John
Box/Instructions
Musician(s)
MacKenzie, Alistair
License
Game Demo or Preview - Commercial
Sound FX
[unknown]
Serial
Cover Artist(s)
ST Type
ST, STe, TT / 0.5MB
MIDI
Version
[preview]
Dump
Download
Number of Disks
1 / Double Sided
Dump format
ST
Protection

OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (1)

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Preview version features different title screen and title music from the commercial release version.
Many thanks to Curt Vendel for dumping this game from a former Atari developer's hard drive.

TRIVIA (5)

Conversion - Atari 8-bit

Sound

Features digitized title soundtrack at 13.1KHz

Development

Copy protection by PromatST V4.0 22/04/87 Copyright 1987 Redvale Ltd
Disk reveals some copy protection source code

Graphics

Features up to 36 colours on-screen simultaneously (introduction screen)
Features parallax-scrolling (in-game)

Releases

The Atari ST version was released first on the 16 bit market in Europe.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.

BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (1)

ST Action · September, 1988Rating: 44 %