Moon Patrol
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Moon Patrol (ムーンパトロール, Mūn Patorōru) is a 1982 arcade video game developed and released by Irem. It was licensed to Williams for distribution in North America.[5] The player controls a Moon buggy which can jump over and shoot obstacles on a horizontally scrolling landscape as well as shoot aerial attackers. Designed by Takashi Nishiyama, Moon Patrol is often credited with the introduction of full parallax scrolling in side-scrolling games. Cabinet art for the Williams version was done by Larry Day. Most of the home ports were from Atari, Inc., sometimes under the Atarisoft label.
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Moon Patrol | |
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Developer(s) | Irem |
Publisher(s) | Arcade Ports Atari, Inc. Atarisoft |
Designer(s) | Takashi Nishiyama[1] |
Platform(s) | Arcade, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM PC, MSX, TI-99/4A, VIC-20 |
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Genre(s) | Scrolling shooter |
Mode(s) | 1-2 players alternating |
Arcade system | Irem M-52 hardware |
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