Depthcharge
Depthcharge is a black-and-white submarine simulator arcade video game released in 1977 by Gremlin Industries. The game shows a side view of a section of ocean with a destroyer on the surface and submarines passing beneath it. The player-controlled destroyer can be moved left and right and drop depth charges to destroy the submarines below.
Depthcharge
- Date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Taito
- Genre
- shoot 'em up · action game
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Depthcharge is a black-and-white submarine simulator arcade video game released in 1977 by Gremlin Industries. The game shows a side view of a section of ocean with a destroyer on the surface and submarines passing beneath it. The player-controlled destroyer can be moved left and right and drop depth charges to destroy the submarines below.
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• Title — Depthcharge • Developer — Gremlin • Publisher — Gremlin • Platforms — Arcade, Noval 760 • Released — Arcade September 1977 Noval 760 1977 • Genre — Submarine simulator • Modes — Single-player
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Up to four submarines may be present at any given time, each of which bears a score for destroying it that increases with its depth. Submarines release mines which the player-controlled ship must avoid by moving out of their path.
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