Hawkquest

Information

Genre

Arcade - Miscellaneous

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick

Players

1

Programmer(s)

Bradfield, Andrew

Graphic Artist(s)

Kong Tin, Harvey

Year

1989

Publisher

Red Rat Software

Country

United Kingdom

License

Commercial

Medium

Disk

Rarity

7

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.8/10 · Votes: 29 · Downloads: 3,486 · Hits: 14,614

Screenshots (8)

Cover Art (2)

Comments (5)

• charliechaplin — 4 May 2025

  The code to see the end sequence is: ABLTXYZZHA Congratulation, you saved the planet!

• charliechaplin — 3 May 2025

  This game also exists as a tape version. I have it in my collection, complete with two original tapes (both use a+b side!), original manual and original package. The tape version is shortened compared to the disk version. It only contains the helicopter shoot-em up parts (missions 1-5) and the end animation. You can load each mission (and the end animation) individually, but there is no planet selection like in the disk version. I still like the tape version, since I never liked the underground fortresses anyways. If only the shoot-em up parts were a little easier and not that difficult as they are. And yes, I got the disk version back then from Micro Discount, not Red Rat, while I got the tape version from ebay. Think FredM is right and Red Rat never sold this game.

• GadZombiE — 7 Jan 2017

  This is one of the BEST shmups for Atari! Really, incredible graphics, fast action, great sounds... This game amazed me so much when I saw it for the first time..

• Harvey Kong Tin — 27 May 2016

  This game was developed in Dunedin, New Zealand by Twilight Software (Andrew & Harvey). I should know since I designed the graphics. Red Rat distributed/sold it. We should have approached Atari UK - but never thought about it.. Page 6 previewed it - as a game looking for a publisher - Red Rat was the only one who responded... Now 30 years later on, the landscapes in Hawkquest - now get updated to 2016 in the current project I'm working on.

• Fred Meijer — 15 May 2015

  This game was NOT released by Red Rat. It was developed by them but not published. Years later MD Software (UK) bought the rights and published it.