Software:Flying Saucers (video game)

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Flying Saucers
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Developer(s)Robert Arnstein
Publisher(s)Radio Shack
Programmer(s)Robert Arnstein[1]
Platform(s)TRS-80
Release1979
Genre(s)Fixed shooter

Flying Saucers is a fixed shooter video game written by Robert Arnstein for the TRS-80 and published by Radio Shack in 1979.

Gameplay

Flying Saucers is a game in which the player has a limited amount of time to destroy as many alien saucers as able.[2] There are three types of saucers: large, small, and a super saucer that destroys all visible saucers when shot.[1] There are score penalties for shots that do not hit anything and for letting a saucer escape.[1]

Reception

Glenn Mai reviewed Flying Saucers in The Space Gamer No. 39.[2] 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".[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Flying Saucers Manual". Tandy Corporation. 1981. https://archive.org/details/Flying_Saucers_1981_Tandy. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mai, Glenn (May 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (Steve Jackson Games) (39): 35.