Game Classification

Gridrunner Jeff Minter (U.S.A.), Llamasoft (U.S.A.), 1983  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Action - Arcade - Futuristic - Shooter

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
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Gridrunner This is an arcade game in the style of Centipede. You control a ship, at the bottom of a grid. Moving toward you in a zig-zag is a chain of pods. The object is to shoot them before they get the ship. As the pods are shot, the dead pod remains on the screen, as a blocker to your bullets. The live pods on either side form two new chains, both moving toward you.

Further complicating the game are two guns outside the grid, shooting at your ship from beneath and from your left side. You are able to move into the grid, toward the pod-chain, to avoid the guns. The combination puts pressure on you, from front, back and the side. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Atari 400 - Commodore 64 - Commodore Vic 20 - ZX Spectrum - Amiga - Atari 800 - Atari ST - Dragon 32/64

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