Atari ST - Psygnosis - 1990
Anarchy
1 / 13- Genre
- Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling
- Year
- 1990
- Language
- Machine Language
- Publisher
- Psygnosis
- Controls
- Joystick
- Distributor
- Antic Direct
- Players
- 1 / Demo
- Developer
- WJS Design
- Resolution
- Low
- Licensed from
- -
- Programmer(s)
- Smithson, Wayne
- Country
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Oxland, Kevin / Warren, Chris
- Software
- —
- Game design
- Smithson, Wayne
- Box/Instructions
- —
- Musician(s)
- Norrish, Ray / Scharvona, Justin
- License
- Commercial
- Sound FX
- [unknown]
- Serial
- —
- Cover Artist(s)
- —
- ST Type
- ST, STe / 0.5MB
- MIDI
- —
- Version
- —
- Dump
- Missing dump(s)
- Number of Disks
- —
- Dump format
- —
- Protection
- —
OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (5)
ADS (1)
ARTICLE (2)
TRIVIA (4)
Working title for Anarchy was "It can't be done". It refers to the ultrafast and smooth game engine which is rarely seen on Atari ST games.
Sound
Features digitized title soundtrack at 16.2KHz
Graphics
Features up to 37 colours on-screen simultaneously (in-game)
Releases
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Atari ST (3/1990), Amiga (10/1990)
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.
BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (12)
ST Action · September, 1990Rating: 68%
The One · August, 1990Rating: 80 %
ST Format · April, 1990Rating: 77%
The Games Machine · August, 1990Rating: 50%
ACE · September, 1990Rating: 625/1000
Computer + Video Games (C+VG) · September, 1990Rating: 96%
Atari ST User · October, 1990Rating: 75%
ST Format · January, 1991Rating: 77%
The One · November, 1991Rating: 3/5
Games X · February 20th-26th, 1992Rating: 3,5/5
ST Action · July, 1992Rating: 89%
ST Action · September, 1994Rating: 60%