Shoot'em Up! / Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling · 1990
Anarchy
Published by ST Action · Developed by WJS Design
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Information
- Genre
- Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling
- Language
- Machine Language
- Controls
- Joystick
- Players
- 1, Demo
- Resolution
- Low
- Programmer(s)
- Smithson, Wayne
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Oxland, Kevin, Warren, Chris
- Game design
- Smithson, Wayne
- Musician(s)
- Norrish, Ray, Scharvona, Justin
- Sound FX
- [unknown]
- Year
- 1990
- Publisher
- ST Action
- Distributor
- Interactive Publishing
- Developer
- WJS Design
- Licensed from
- -
- Software
- English
- Box/Instructions
- English
- License
- Game Demo or Preview - Commercial
- ST Type
- ST, STe, 0.5MB
- Version
- [preview]
- Number of Disks
- 1, Double Sided
Votes / Statistics
Rating: 7.6/10 · Votes: 34 · Downloads: 1,597 · Hits: 2,579
Additional Comments
Due to duplication error on ST Action's disk factory, the first release was corrupted. They released a working version of the preview in their games disk 5.
Screenshots (7)
Cover Art (2)
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, 1990 · Rating: 68%
The One · August, 1990 · Rating: 80 %
ST Format · April, 1990 · Rating: 77%
The Games Machine · August, 1990 · Rating: 50%
ACE · September, 1990 · Rating: 625/1000
Computer + Video Games (C+VG) · September, 1990 · Rating: 96%
Atari ST User · October, 1990 · Rating: 75%
ST Format · January, 1991 · Rating: 77%
The One · November, 1991 · Rating: 3/5
Games X · February 20th-26th, 1992 · Rating: 3,5/5
ST Action · July, 1992 · Rating: 89%
ST Action · September, 1994 · Rating: 60%