Rear Guard (video game)
{{Short description|1981 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Rear Guard
|image = Rear Guard Coverart.png
|image_size =
|developer =
|publisher = Adventure International
|designer = Neil Larimer
|programmer = Atari 8-bit
Neil Larimer
Sparky Starks
TRS-80
Wayne Westmoreland
Terry Gilman
|released = December 1981{{r|lombardy1982sepoct}}
|genre = Scrolling shooter
|modes = Single-player
|platforms = Apple II, Atari 8-bit, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer
}}
Rear Guard is a horizontally scrolling shooter written for Atari 8-bit computers and published in December 1981 by Adventure International. Neil Larimer created the game with assistance from Sparky Starks. It was ported to the Apple II, TRS-80, and TRS-80 Color Computer.
Gameplay
Image:Rear Guard screenshot.png
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Reception
The game sold 3,400 copies by June 1982, appearing on Computer Gaming World{{'}}s list of top sellers.{{cite magazine |title=Inside the Industry |url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1982&pub=2&id=6 |format=PDF |magazine=Computer Gaming World |page=2 | date=September–October 1982 | accessdate= 2016-03-28}} David H. Ahl of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games said in 1983 that "to maintain your sanity, a joystick is necessary" for the Apple version of Rear Guard. He concluded that it was "a fast-moving colorful game that brings Defender home to the Apple".{{Cite magazine |last1=Ahl |first1=David H. |last2=Brill |first2=Andrew |last3=Lubar |first3=David |author-link3=David Lubar |last4=Coffey |first4=Michael |last5=Archibald |first5=Dale |date=Spring 1983 |title=Apple Computer Games |url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/cva/v1n1/applegames.php |magazine=Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=86}}
In March 1983 Rear Guard won Softline{{'}}s Dog of the Year award "for badness in computer games", Atari division, based on reader submissions. The magazine reported that although the Apple version was "just fine", "According to the ballots, Rear Guard [for the Atari] was bad beyond belief.".{{cite news | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1983&pub=6&id=10 | title=Everybody Doesn't Like Something | work=Softline | date=March 1983 | accessdate=28 July 2014 | pages=22–23}}
References
External links
- {{atarimania|id=4317}}
- {{internet archive game|atr_Rear_Guard_v1b}}
Category:Adventure International games
Category:Atari 8-bit computer games
Category:Horizontally scrolling shooters
Category:Single-player video games