Shoot'em Up! / Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling · 1991
Parsec XL
Published by Secret Games
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Information
- Genre
- Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling
- Language
- Machine Language
- Controls
- Joystick
- Players
- 1
- Programmer(s)
- Wollatz, Marc
- Year
- 1991
- Publisher
- Secret Games
- Country
- Germany
- License
- Commercial
- Medium
- Disk
- Rarity
- 9
Votes / Statistics
Rating: 4.1/10 · Votes: 8 · Downloads: 2,120 · Hits: 7,417
Additional Comments
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Cover Art (2)
Comments (2)
Andreas Koch — 4 May 2008
Well, in the early nineties AMC-Verlag (thats where Secret Games belongs to) did not have much to publish for the A8. The only things they got were some simple + cheap tape programs like Parsec XL and Ballcracker, which they converted + released on diskette, just to have some new A8 titles... Many Atarians complained about this (especially, since the level-editor of Ball-Cracker could save self-created levels only to tape!), but AMC-Verlag and its chief Armin Stuermer could not change it. The alternative would have been to release nothing at all or to re-package their older titles and release them again (which they did with the Happy-Set)... But still, Parsec XL is a really bad and boring game, maybe the author played it on a TI-99 and this was his first program for the A8...?!? -Andreas Koch.
Lockett — 1 May 2008
Why would somebody convert a ten-year-old TI-99 game to the XL? They did a shoddy job, and the game was dated when they started.