Bug Attack
{{Short description|1982 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Bug Attack
| image = Bug Attack.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| developer = Jim Nitchals
| publisher = Cavalier Computer
| series =
| platforms = Apple II, Atari 8-bit
| released = 1981: Apple
1982: Atari
| genre = Fixed shooter
| modes =
}}
Bug Attack is a fixed shooter video game written by Jim Nitchals for the Apple II and published by Cavalier Computer in 1981.{{cite web |last1=Hague |first1=James |title=The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers |url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/}} A version for Atari 8-bit computers was released in 1982.{{cite web |title=Bug Attack |url=http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-bug-attack_816.html |website=Atari Mania}} Bug Attack is based on Atari, Inc.'s Centipede arcade game.
Gameplay
Reception
Dave Jones reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "the novel touches of Bug Attack, such as the variety of vegetations and patterns of color, and the intermissions which break up the action between insect waves, served to maintain my interest in the game hour after hour. The author of the game is to be complemented on his packing such a successful combination of imaginative flair and technical expertise into the confines of the Apple II."{{cite magazine |last=McGrath |first=Richard |title=Bug Attack: A Review |magazine=Computer Gaming World |date=March–April 1982 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=34, 38}}
Reviewing the Apple II original, Leigh Goldstein wrote in Electronic Games: "Clearly modeled on Atari's coin-op, Centipede, Bug Attack just doesn't offer enough of the features that make Centipede such a great game" and "Bug Attack is dull gaming." She cited Centipede{{'}}s sound effects and vertical player movement as two elements lacking from Bug Attack.
Reviews
- [http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/softline_1.2.pdf Softline]
- [https://archive.org/details/softalkv2n03nov1981/page/106/mode/2up Softalk]
- [https://archive.org/stream/RetroGameMagazineOneShots/1984%20Software%20Encyclopedia%20%281983%29%20Over%20900%20Descriptions%20and%20Ratings#page/n9/mode/2up 1984 Software Encyclopedia] from Electronic Games
- [https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-the-book-of-atari-software-1983/page/n93/mode/2up Book of Atari Software 1983]
- [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-08/page/n37/mode/2up Creative Computing]
- [https://archive.org/details/InCider198302/page/n129/mode/2up Review] in InCider