Panther

Information

Genre

Shoot'em Up! - Zaxxon

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick

Players

1

Programmer(s)

Peavey, Chuck

Sound

Whittaker, David

Year

1987

Publisher

Mastertronic (UK)

Developer

Sculptured Software

Country

United Kingdom

License

Commercial

Medium

Tape

Rarity

3

Serial

IT0134

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.8/10 · Votes: 60 · Downloads: 3,849 · Hits: 18,831

Screenshots (3)

Cover Art (2)

Comments (10)

• dtm-artist — 18 Mar 2024

  One of the all-time great POKEY soundtracks. And the game is also pretty good.

• chr1sbean — 2 Oct 2023

  Again...another family game where we all took turns and this game was loved by all of us. It is a very fond memory of the late 80's and those destroyed houses in the town section in my head really were mansions that had been destroyed by aliens. I think our imaginations made these games sooooo much more and mostly can only be appreciated by being there and playing them whilst growing up. And that music....C64 did great tunes but the Atari version easily blows it out of the water this time. Goosebumps!!

• Steve — 24 Nov 2022

  This is a great game. Aesthetically it's better than the C64 for me. The C64 looks like a cartoon, where as the Atari looks advanced and cool. The playability is spot on and reminds me of Blue max, slowly getting harder as you go, drawing you in. Great game, superb soundtrack.

• Rich — 23 Sept 2016

  This one bummed me out - the C64 version was WAY better IMHO, and while this is good, I don't think it flexed the Atari's muscle enough.

• thax — 18 Oct 2013

  the very game that made me choose Atari.superb tune and gfx. took awhile but finally got past the plasmawave and completed it until it repeats and becomes stupidly impossible with the aliens on red bull with thier unavoidable weapons fire. well worth 1.99

• thax — 18 Oct 2013

  The very game that made me fall in love with atari 8 bit! The plasma wave took me along time to get past and finally managed to complete it. 2nd time round is just impossible as the aiens fire at you faster than you can move! stunning music and great gfx, could of charged full price for this game. a mile better than 64 version which i used to own

• mymoon — 27 Aug 2013

  Hey Chris! I guess the game is the very same game on the 64 and the atari except for the color palette and the Interface graphics. Both versions are good. Mr. Whittaker's brilliant music changes a bit in both versions a bit. Great game anyway!

• Chris — 24 Apr 2008

  I had this for my 65XE back in the day and my parents and me used to spend many hours on this taking turns and trying to beat each others score! Sadly the XE died and we got a C64 and this was one of the first purchases - but graphically and musically it was nowhere near as good as the Atari version!

• Jonny EOL — 15 Apr 2008

  This is the one you could move onto once you'd cracked 'Blue Max'. Tricky diagonal scroller with erratic flying saucers getting in the way of your daring rescue mission. Great music, decent graphics and no shortage of action.

• Alex — 23 Nov 2006

  Top notch game thats all im gonna say...