— · 1983

Lunar Leeper

Published by Sierra On-Line

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Information

Language: Machine Language
Controls: Joystick
Players: 1
Programmer(s): Hunt, Kevin
Year: 1983
Publisher: Sierra On-Line
Country: USA
License: Commercial
Medium: Disk
Rarity: 8

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 4.8/10 · Votes: 5 · Downloads: 1,476 · Hits: 7,406

Additional Comments

Original version also seems to be buggy.

Screenshots (2)

Cover Art (4)

Ads (1)

Book / Magazine Reviews (1)

Electronic Games · March, 1984

Two basic screens alternate in Lunar Leeper. The first depicts the surface, the second below it. The object of the first screen, a plain between two cliffs, is to rescue helpless humans surrounded by hungry leepers. In the second screen, the gamer's ship navigates a cave and destroys a giant eye protected by lazer turrets and Trabants (small, but armed, eyelike objects). Each successive level becomes more crowded with nasty little leepers and their allies.

Unfortunately, the game presents no real challenge due to flaws in the play mechanic and design concept. For example, the leepers are too-easily defeated. The player simply waits until they leap and then blasts them. Also, there isn't enough reinforcement for saving humans. Since 1,000 bonus, points are awarded for each leeper remaining at the end of the rack versus a 500-point penalty for humans lost, it's more advantageous to let the leepers eat the humans than risk a ship which may be needed later.

Lunar Leeper is an amusing game for an inexperienced gamer, but not for someone who loves Defender or Choplifter!

Comments (2)

rave.N — 23 Mar 2016
Happy to say I can fix this. And the corruption is only cosmetic, just what you see in screen data. My first impression was a kind of rectangle was drawn by a bad JSR which would've meant a very hosed program, but somehow there's only a 1 byte shift in 2 places. Disk image repair 1 of 2, 8 bytes at offsets $2780-2787 : $E5 55 4F FF FF FF FE 00 is bad, make it $9F E5 55 4F FF FF FF FE good ... & disk image repair 2 of 2, 8 bytes at offsets $3680-3687 : $E4 00 4F FC 02 00 86 00 is bad, make it $9F E4 00 4F FC 02 00 86 good
rave.N — 21 Mar 2016
Sad to say there is corruption in this download. See the screenshot on the listings page, dark horizontal lines in the lower right corner do not belong. By the way, XL/XE does not function, this needs OS/B or A.