The Attack (video game)

The Attack
Manual
Developer(s)Milton Bradley
Publisher(s)Texas Instruments
Programmer(s)Jim Pettingell[1]
Platform(s)TI-99/4A
Release1981
Genre(s)Multidirectional shooter

The Attack is a multidirectional shooter video game created, designed, and implemented by Jim Pettingell for the TI-99/4A home computer and published by Texas Instruments in 1981.[1] The game was developed at Milton Bradley as Alien Attack, inspired by the movies Alien (1979) and Barbarella (1968). After being sold to TI, the name was changed to The Attack.[2]

Gameplay

The player flies a spaceship in four directions around a single screen, shooting "spores", which connect together to form new aliens, and already formed aliens before they eat the player. Incubators, shown as square boxes, release more spores or, in later levels, aliens.[3]

There are four skill levels: Novice, Intermediate, Master, and Pro.[3]

Reception

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. ^ "TI-99/4A Videogame House - The Attack". www.videogamehouse.net. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b The Attack Manual (PDF). Dallas, TX: Texas Instruments. 1980.


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