Atari ST - Firebird (UK) - 1989
Action Fighter
1 / 14- Genre
- Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling
- Year
- 1989
- Language
- Machine Language
- Publisher
- Firebird (UK)
- Controls
- Joystick
- Distributor
- -
- Players
- 1 / Demo
- Developer
- Core Design
- Resolution
- Low
- Licensed from
- SEGA
- Programmer(s)
- Green, Andrew
- Country
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Lloyd, Terry
- Software
- English
- Game design
- Sega
- Box/Instructions
- English
- Musician(s)
- Daglish, Ben
- License
- Commercial
- Sound FX
- [unknown]
- Serial
- —
- Cover Artist(s)
- —
- ST Type
- ST, STe, TT, Falcon030 / 0.5MB
- MIDI
- —
- Version
- —
- Dump
- Download
- Number of Disks
- 1 / Single Sided
- Dump format
- Pasti
- Protection
- —
OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (3)
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Disk 1
ARTICLE (1)
Core Design interview
TIPS (1)
ST Action GTGA
TRIVIA (4)
Origins
Based on Sega 1986 coin-op.
Development
Message from the disk (USA release):
NEWS DUDE! - ERROR ON FORMAT!!! HEY! LIKE WHATS THE DEAL! - ERROR ON SECTOR WRITE!
LOOKS GOOD TO ME ... WE ARE DONE!!!
NEWS DUDE! - ERROR ON FORMAT!!! HEY! LIKE WHATS THE DEAL! - ERROR ON SECTOR WRITE!
LOOKS GOOD TO ME ... WE ARE DONE!!!
Sound
Features partially digitized sound fx at 4.9KHz
Releases
First 8-bit releases reviewed in UK multiformat magazines for ZX Spectrum (11/1989), Commodore 64 (11/1989)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Atari ST (10/1989), Amiga (3/1992)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Atari ST (10/1989), Amiga (3/1992)
Based on the review data, the Atari ST version was released first on the 16-bit market in Europe, and ported later for other 16-bit systems.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.
POSTERS (1)
BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (6)
ST Action · November, 1989Rating: 57%
Computer + Video Games (C+VG) · December, 1989Rating: 71%
The Games Machine · December, 1989Rating: 56%
Atari ST User · January, 1990Rating: 5/10
Games X · March 5th-11th, 1992Rating: 3/5
ST Action · October, 1993Rating: 60%