Shoot'em Up! / Shoot'em Up! - Bomber · 1984
City Destroyer
Published by Games Computing · Developed by [n/a]
atarimania.com — atari-400-800-xl-xe-games-city-destroyer-6624
Information
- Genre
- Shoot'em Up! - Bomber
- Language
- BASIC
- Controls
- Joystick
- Players
- 1
- Programmer(s)
- Osborne, M., Hinsley, Wes
- Graphic Artist(s)
- [n/a]
- Sound
- [n/a]
- Cover Artist(s)
- [n/a]
- Year
- 1984
- Publisher
- Games Computing
- Developer
- [n/a]
- Country
- United Kingdom
- License
- Magazine
- Medium
- Disk
- Rarity
- 0
- Serial
- 12-1984
Votes / Statistics
Rating: N/A · Votes: 0 · Downloads: 714 · Hits: 4,396
Additional Comments
From the December 1984 issue of Games Computing.
Many thanks to wesmond for typing in this program and producing a working version (see his original comments below and the list of changes)!
"Hmm. This is a BLITZ-like game - and the text talks about two listings, but only one was printed. Since we have POKE 756,144 on lines 6 and 4001, but no redefining of a charset, I guess that's what listing 1 would have done. SO. I've improvised CITYDEST.BAS and chosen some sensible characters, and then GAME.BAS is the original listing, to be run afterwards. ALSO, I have added HIT=0 on line 1020, otherwise your bombs misbehave if the previous one hit the ground, which is really annoying. And lastly, I added POKE 1616,0 on line 25000 to reset the DLI counter, otherwise you might get green sky and blue ground on your second game."
Screenshots (2)
Comments (2)
Wes — 21 May 2021
See here... http://forum.atarimania.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18847
IgnacioPrini — 19 May 2021
Type-in from Games Computing magazine, December 1984 issue. Written by M. Osborne. If I knew how to use Atari BASIC with Altirra emulator, I wouldn't mind to copy it into a .BAS file.