Victory
Victory is a 1982 arcade video game by Exidy. It was later ported to the ColecoVision. The only contemporary game on the ColecoVision along with Omega Race to natively support the Roller Controller, a trackball controller.
Victory
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- 1982
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To renew interest in the game, Exidy released a conversion kit for the arcade version that turned the game into Victory Banana, a new space game with identical gameplay and a modified, more humorous theme behind the graphics.
Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Victory • Publisher — Exidy • Designer — Howell Ivy • Released — ArcadeFebruary 1982ColecoVisionOctober 1983 • Genre — Multidirectional shooter • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Arcade, ColecoVision
Gameplay
Gameplay
Victory is a multidirectional shooter game where the player controls a spaceship called Battlestar. The ship's direction is controlled by a paddle. The longer the thrust button is held, the faster the ship goes. The player must pilot the BattleStar spaceship and fight a variety of enemy ships in space and on the planet. This game also features Speech synthesis which is played during gameplay, and when inserting a coin.
Release and reception
The arcade version of Victory was released in February 1982. A port was released for the ColecoVision video game console in October 1983. Reviewing the ColecoVision port, one of the reviewers from Videogaming and Computer Gaming Illustrated gave the game a rating of A and said: "The best attributes of Odyssey's UFO and the arcade Defender make this a definitive cartridge." Another reviewer gave a rating of A− and wrote: "Victory and the roller controller are indeed impressive." Telematch said the game is not a masterpiece of programming but called it still an enjoyable game. The end music was noted as worth listening to multiple times. In a retrospective review, AllGame described it as a strange hybrid of Time Pilot and Defender.
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- 1.All Media Guide. Victory. AllGame.
- 2.Drury, Paul. In the chair with. Howell Ivy. Retro Gamer. Imagine Publishing. 125. 92-97. 2014.
- 3.Loguidice, Bill. Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time. CRC Press. 127. 24 February 2014. 9781135006518.
- 4.Meyerd, Richard. The Exidy Experiment. Videogaming Illustrated. Ion International Inc. 41. December 1982.
- 5.Ahl Computing, Inc., Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Mastering - Victory. Video & Arcade Games. 1. 18-19. Spring 1983.
- 6.Akagi, Masumi. アーケードTVゲームリス 国内 • 海外編 ( 1971 - 2005 )ト. Amusement News Agency. 2006. 978-4-9902512-1-5.
- 7.Availability Update. The Video Game Update includes Computer Entertainer. 2. 8. November 1983.
- 8.Ion International Inc. Micro Takes - Victory. Videogaming and Computer Gaming Illustrated. 13. 15. January 1984.
- 9.Huff, Hartmut. TeleMatch Test - Victory. TeleMatch Computer Software Magazin Verlag GmbH. 2. 5-6/1984. 30. 1984. 0174-741X.
- 10.Weiss, Brett Alan. Victory - Review. AllGame. All Media Network.
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