Shoot'em Up! / Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling · 1988
Foundations Waste
Published by East Midlands Leisure · Developed by [n/a]
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Information
- Genre
- Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling
- Language
- Machine Language
- Controls
- Joystick
- Players
- 1
- Resolution
- Low
- Programmer(s)
- Bysh, Martin, Elliston, Erroll
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Tomkins, Alan
- Game design
- Bysh, Martin, Elliston, Erroll
- Musician(s)
- Beben, Wally
- Sound FX
- [unknown]
- Dump
- Missing dump(s)
- Year
- 1988
- Publisher
- East Midlands Leisure
- Distributor
- -
- Developer
- [n/a]
- Licensed from
- -
- Software
- English
- License
- Commercial
- ST Type
- ST, STe, 0.5MB
- Version
- [arcade cabinet]
Votes / Statistics
Rating: 8.0/10 · Votes: 3 · Downloads: 0 · Hits: 4,113
Trivia (3)
Arcade Cabinet
In 1988 a company called East Midlands Leisure built an 1040ST based arcade cabinets called INTEC Video Systems costing £1400 each with two games included. Launch games were Foundations Waste from Exocet Software and Trantor - The Last Stormtrooper from US Gold
Charts
Top UK ST charts position: 8 (8/1988)
Months on charts: 2 between 8/1988 - 9/1988
Months on charts: 2 between 8/1988 - 9/1988
Releases
The Atari ST version was released first on the 16 bit market in Europe. Published 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 (1)
ST Action · July, 1988 · Rating: 59 %
Comments (1)
8bitjeff — 5 Aug 2015
Great, early example of a well programmed full scrolling ST Action Game.