APB - All Points Bulletin

Information

Genre

Arcade - Miscellaneous

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick

Players

1

Resolution

Low

Programmer(s)

Selwood, David

Graphic Artist(s)

Page, Andrew, Fish, David

Game design

Atari Games [company]

Musician(s)

Whittaker, David

Sound FX

Whittaker, David

Dump

Missing dump(s)

Year

1990

Publisher

Tengen

Developer

Walking Circles

Licensed from

Atari Games / Tengen

Software

English

Box/Instructions

English

License

Commercial

ST Type

ST, STe, TT, 0.5MB

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.3/10 · Votes: 16 · Downloads: 0 · Hits: 4,646

Trivia (5)

Origins

Based on Atari Games 1987 coin-op.

Conversion - Atari Lynx

Sound

Features partially digitized sound fx at 10.2KHz

Charts

Top UK charts position: 12 (1/1990)
Months on charts: 2 between 12/1989 - 1/1990

Releases

First 8-bit releases reviewed in UK multiformat magazines for ZX Spectrum (9/1989), Commodore 64 (10/1989)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Atari ST (9/1989), Amiga (11/1989)

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.

Book / Magazine Reviews (9)

The One · October, 1989 · Rating: 73%

ACE · October, 1989 · Rating: 762/1000

Computer + Video Games (C+VG) · September, 1989 · Rating: 78%

The Games Machine · October, 1989 · Rating: 84%

ST Action · October, 1989 · Rating: 69%

Atari ST User · October, 1989 · Rating: 6/10

Zero · November, 1989 · Rating: 80%

ST Format · July, 1991 · Rating: 55%

Raze · August, 1991 · Rating: 75%

Comments (1)

• the big m — 6 Jan 2024

  Very fun arcade port. Have to practice to avoid crashing into cars. ?? Scrolling is nice but is a bit jerky diagonally. Love the digital speech samples!! Recommended!