Game Classification

Dropzone Arena Graphics (Archer MacLean), U.S. Gold / Mindscape (United Kingdom), 1984  

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Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Action - Action-adventure - Arcade - Futuristic - Shooter

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Storytelling

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 SELECT : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
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Dropzone It is a bi-directional, horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up in the style of Defender. It was designed and written by Archer MacLean, his first commercial video game. In fact, "Arena Graphics" is just a shell name for MacLean himself. [source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Gameboy (GB) - GameBoy Color (GBC) - GameGear (GG) - NES (Famicom) - Super Nintendo (SNES) - Atari 800 - Commodore 64

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