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release year |
1982 |
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developer |
Activision, Inc. |
publisher |
Activision, Inc. |
category |
Action |
genre / theme |
arcade, shooter, vertical-scrolling, top-down |
platform |
Atari 2600 (1982), Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Intellivision (1983), ColecoVision, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum (1984), PC Booter (1985), BREW (2003), Windows, Xbox (2010) |
River Raid is a vertically scrolling shooter designed and programmed by Carol B. Shaw and published by Activision in 1982 for the Atari 2600 video game console. Viewed from a top-down perspective, the player flies a fighter jet over the River of No Return in a raid behind enemy lines. The player's jet can only move left and right - it cannot maneuver up and down the screen - but it can accelerate and decelerate. The player's jet crashes if it collides with the riverbank or an enemy craft, or if the jet runs out of fuel. Assuming fuel can be replenished, and if the player evades damage, gameplay is essentially unlimited...
rating (OldGames): 72%
game added: 26.11.2020, 11:29 (dj)
last update: 26.11.2020, 17:27 (dj)
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