Attack Force (video game)

{{Short description|1980 video game}}

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| title = Attack Force

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| developer = Big Five Software

| publisher = Big Five Software

| designer = Bill Hogue{{cite web|last1=Hague|first1=James|title=The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers|url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/}}
Jeff Konyu

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| platforms = TRS-80

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Attack Force is a 1980 video game developed by Big Five Software for the TRS-80 16K. It was written by Big Five co-founders Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu. Hogue later wrote Miner 2049'er. Attack Force is based on Exidy's 1980 Targ arcade game.{{cite web |url=http://www.trs-80.org/attack-force/ |date= |title=Attack Force |last=Reed |first=Mathew |website=TRS-80.org}}{{cite magazine |last=Linzmayer |first=Owen |date=September 1981 |title=Bringing Home the Arcade |url=https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-09/page/n187 |magazine=Creative Computing |publisher=Creative Computing |location=Morristown, NJ |volume=7 |issue=9 |pages=180–183 |via=Internet Archive}}

Gameplay

Attack Force is a game in which the player's ship must avoid the twisting and turning ram-ships of the enemy.{{cite book |last=Kwascha |first=George |editor-last=Fiderio |editor-first=Janet |year=1983 |title=80 Micro's Review Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/80MicrosReviewGuide |publisher=80 Micro Books |location=Peterborough, NH |chapter=Attack Force |page=[https://archive.org/details/80MicrosReviewGuide/page/n104 90]}}

Reception

J. Mishcon reviewed Attack Force in The Space Gamer No. 39.{{cite magazine |last=Mishcon |first=J. |date=May 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=39|pages=35}} Mishcon commented that "This is another strong entry in the Big Five line and I strongly recommend it for any arcade buff."

Reviews

  • Moves #57, p14{{Cite web |title=privacy error |url=https://strategyandtacticspress.com/library-files/Moves%20Issue57.pdf |access-date=October 28, 2024 |website=strategyandtacticspress.com}}

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