Atari ST - Rainbird - 1988

Carrier Command

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Genre: Strategy - Miscellaneous
Year: 1988
Language: Machine Language
Publisher: Rainbird
Controls: Joystick / Keyboard / Mouse
Distributor: FIL
Players: 1
Developer: Realtime Software
Resolution: Low
Licensed from: -
Programmer(s): Beveridge, Andy / Oliver, IanBaird, Graeme
Country
Graphic Artist(s): Serrano, Herman
Software: English
Game design: Pinto, Ricardo
Box/Instructions: French
Musician(s): Lowe, Dave
License: Commercial
Sound FX: [unknown]
Serial: —
Cover Artist(s): —
ST Type: ST, STe, TT / 0.5MB
MIDI: —
Version: —
Dump: Download
Number of Disks: 1 / Double Sided
Dump format: Pasti
Protection: Password

OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (3)

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Disk 1

ADS (3)

VIDEOS (1)

Carrier Command introduction

TIPS (4)

TRIVIA (4)

Sound

Features digitized title soundtrack at 18.1KHz

TOP-20

Carrier Command was the second ST game in history to reach UK's TOP-10 chart of best selling games in August 1988, at position 19. At the time Computer + Video Games wrote that Atari ST and Amiga combined games sales had reached over 25% of UK's computer games market.

Charts

Top UK charts position: 1 (7/1988)
Months on charts: 5 between 6/1988 - 10/1988

Releases

First 8-bit releases reviewed in UK multiformat magazines for ZX Spectrum (4/1989), Commodore 64 (6/1990)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Atari ST (5/1988), Amiga (9/1988), PC (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.