Shoot'em Up! / Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling · 0

Rubicon

Published by ST Action · Developed by Fingerbobs

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Information

Genre: Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling
Language: Machine Language
Controls: Joystick, Keyboard
Players: 1
Resolution: Low
Programmer(s): Buchanan, Andrew J., Hodgson, Paul, McMurtrie, Keith, Gilray, Stewart, Griffiths, Martin
Graphic Artist(s): Jones, Mark K., Gilray, Stewart
Game design: Simpson, Barry, Ljunggren, Joachin, Kahl, Frederic
Musician(s): Alderton, Nic, Deenen, Charles, Collett, Steve
Sound FX: Alderton, Nic
Publisher: ST Action
Developer: Fingerbobs
Licensed from: -
Software: English
Box/Instructions: English
License: Game Demo or Preview - Commercial
ST Type: ST, STe Enhanced, 0.5MB
Version: [preview]

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 8.4/10 · Votes: 13 · Downloads: 0 · Hits: 1,600

Screenshots (8)

Trivia (5)

Sound

Features digitized title soundtrack at12.5KHz (stereo) on STe
Features digitized title soundtrack at 12.5KHz on ST

Development

Message found from the disk:
‹ST/STE/TT Conversion of Charles Deenan's Amiga Driver By Martin Griffiths(aka Griff of Inner Circle),Yes Stewart this one DID work in the first place!

Hardware

Supports STe DMA sound

Graphics

Features up to 25 colours on-screen simultaneously (in-game)

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.

Book / Magazine Reviews (1)

ST Format · March, 1992 · Rating: 64%

Comments (1)

Darren Birks — 28 Sept 2018
The sound fx were also by Nic Alderton. Martin Griffiths also developed the ST/STE music driver. Comment from the original source code: ; ; ; THE 16-BIT VERSIONS OF RUBICON ARE DEDICATED ; ; TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN CAMERON ; ; A GREAT FRIEND TO STEWART, MARTIN, GRAHAM, STEVEN, RICHARD ; ; AND GEORGE. WHO DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN AUSTRAILIA IN ; ; MAY 1991. ;