Flying Saucers
Flying Saucers is a fixed shooter video game written by Robert Arnstein for the TRS-80 and published by Radio Shack in 1979.
Flying Saucers
- Date
- 1979
- Genre
- fixed shooter
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• Publisher — Radio Shack • Programmer — Robert Arnstein • Platforms — TRS-80 • Genre — Fixed shooter • Released — 1979 • Developer — Robert Arnstein
Gameplay
Gameplay
Flying Saucers is a game in which the player has a limited amount of time to destroy as many alien saucers as able. There are three types of saucers: large, small, and a super saucer that destroys all visible saucers when shot. There are score penalties for shots that do not hit anything and for letting a saucer escape.
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Reception
Glenn Mai reviewed Flying Saucers in The Space Gamer No. 39. Mai commented that "Overall, Flying Saucers is OK. However, I cannot recommend it because there is a better game with the same name (and price!) on the market, Air Raid".
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- 1.Tandy Corporation. Flying Saucers Manual. archive.org. 1981.
- 2.Mai, Glenn. Capsule Reviews. The Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games. 39. 35. May 1981.
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