TerraFire
TerraFire is a multidirectional shooter for MS-DOS. It was originally released on October 1, 1997 as shareware with a demo limiting the player to only the first eight levels. In 2005, TerraFire was re-released as freeware. The game is best called a shoot 'em up, but unlike most games of this genre, the player is free to move in any direction, with physics similar to the 1979 arcade game Asteroids.
TerraFire
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- 1997
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TerraFire is a multidirectional shooter for MS-DOS. It was originally released on October 1, 1997 as shareware with a demo limiting the player to only the first eight levels. In 2005, TerraFire was re-released as freeware. The game is best called a shoot 'em up, but unlike most games of this genre, the player is free to move in any direction, with physics similar to the 1979 arcade game Asteroids.
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Bullet patterns from enemies and obstacles are also far more sparse and predictable, and there are no bosses. The full version of the game has a total of 27 levels, where every fourth level is a bonus level which is a clone of the aforementioned Asteroids. The normal levels, which scroll both horizontally and vertically and wrap horizontally, have gravity and are completed by finding a nuke and dragging it out of the top of the level. TerraFire uses pre-rendered 3D graphics and animation.
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• Title — TerraFire • Developer — ORT Software • Publisher — ORT Software • Designer — Owen Thomas • Released — MS-DOS October 1, 1997Windows March 23, 2000 • Genre — Multidirectional shooter • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — MS-DOS, Windows
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Mikrobitti named TerraFire game of the month in their June/July 1998 issue. They called the game a Thrust clone and said the gameplay is splendid despite the game's simple appearance. ZDNet gave the game a score of five out of five and wrote: "TerraFire is a graphically pleasing, challenging arcade game in the Super R Type vein [...]". Computer Gaming World gave TerraFire the award for the best action/adventure game at ZDNet's 7th Annual Shareware Awards. They called it "a graphically pleasing, challenging arcade game". In a retrospective review, Rock Paper Shotgun called the game a "Gravitar homage with lovely parallax backgrounds and handsome faux-3D sprites".
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- 1.IGN page
- 2.Kauppinen, Jukka O. MBnet - Kuukauden peli - Terrafire v1.0. Mikrobitti. Helsinki Media Erikoislehdet. 6-7/98. 100. June 1998. 0781-2078.
- 3.TerraFire v2.01d. ZDNet. 20 April 2000.
- 4.Shareware Awards - Computer Gaming World - Action/Adventure Games. ZDNet.
- 5.Stone, Tim. TerraFire is still terrific. Rock Paper Shotgun. Gamer Network. 8 September 2017.
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