Slag (video game)

Slag
Original game cover, featuring a cartoon battle scene with missiles and factories, and a soldier saying "Slag 'em"
Original game cover
Developer(s)Stewart Eastman
Publisher(s)Adventure International
Designer(s)Stewart Eastman[1]
Platform(s)TRS-80
Release1980
Genre(s)war game
Mode(s)multiplayer

Slag (stylized as SLAG) is a strategy-oriented war game written by Stewart Eastman for the TRS-80 and published by Adventure International in 1980.[2]

Gameplay

Slag is a multiplayer war game in which each player controls a nation and must destroy the industry of all other players.[3] According to the game's promotional material, "diplomacy is the major factor; but, strategic end tactical planning and eye and hand coordination are very important".[1]

Reception

J. Mishcon reviewed Slag in The Space Gamer No. 38.[3] Mishcon commented that "All in all a well balanced game with a lot of very nice options, but a game that heavily depends on your hand-eye coordination to shoot down those missiles. Buy it only if you're really into coordination."[3]

Reviews

  • 80-U.S. - Volume IV Number 2 (1981-03)[4]
  • Moves #57, p16[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Slag: An Animated War Game". Adventure International Catalog. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Summer 1981 ed.). Lakewood, Florida: Scott Adams, Inc. 1981. p. 22.
  2. ^ "Slag". GBAtemp.net - The Independent Video Game Community. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  3. ^ a b c Mishcon, J. (April 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (38). Steve Jackson Games: 36.
  4. ^ "80-U.S. - Volume IV Number 2 (1981-03)(80-Northwest Publishing)(US)". March 1981.
  5. ^ https://strategyandtacticspress.com/library-files/Moves%20Issue57.pdf
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