Super Nova (video game)
{{Short description|1980 video game}}
{{for|the Super Nintendo game|Darius Force}}
{{Infobox video game
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| title = Super Nova
| image = File:Super Nova (video game) (Cover).jpg
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| developer =
| publisher = Big Five Software
| programmer = Bill Hogue
Jeff Konyu
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| platforms = TRS-80
| released = 1980
| genre = Multidirectional shooter
| modes = Single-player
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Super Nova is clone of Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids arcade game published by Big Five Software for the TRS-80 in 1980.{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Matthew |title=Super Nova |url=http://www.trs-80.org/super-nova/ |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}} Co-author Bill Hogue called Super Nova "the game that started the company."{{cite web |last1=Hogue |first1=Bill |title=TRS-80 Games |url=http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/trs80/trs80main.htm |website=Big Five Software}}
Gameplay
Reception
Jon Mishcon reviewed Super Nova in The Space Gamer No. 36.{{cite journal|last=Mishcon |first=Jon |date=February 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=36|pages=28}} Mishcon commented that "I found this game to be a real challenge. Recommended for any arcade buff." In the video game magazine Moves (#57), Ian Chadwick described Super Nova as "exciting", though criticized the lack of sound effects.Chadwick, Ian. (June 1981). Reviews of SSI's. Moves, 57, p.14-15. https://strategyandtacticspress.com/library-files/Moves%20Issue57.pdf
References
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External links
- [https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_IV_Number_6_1981-11_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n137/mode/2up Review] in 80-U.S
- [https://archive.org/stream/80-microcomputing-magazine-1981-08/80Microcomputing_0881#page/n31/mode/2up Review] in 80 Micro
- [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-05/page/n109/mode/2up Review] in Byte
- [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-09/page/n185/mode/2up Review] in Creative Computing
Category:Big Five Software games