River Raid

created and published by Activision in 1984, running on MS-DOS

type: shooter
genre: Scrolling shooter
perspective: bird's-eye auto-scroll
player options: single player

languages: eng

Description

The player must maneuver their jet plane up the river just inches from the surface of the water. So low that the plane can collide with the banks of the river or canyon walls in some places. The goal is to shoot all enemy ships, helicopters, bridges, planes, and fuel tanks and do not collide with them. Also, fuel can be stolen from the tanks by flying over them, this is necessary to keep the player's jet flying.

While the game does not have a proper ending, there is an obvious point where there is no more to be seen.

Requires a cartridge port and PCjr or Tandy 1000 (8088 or 8086 CPU, 64 KB RAM. Optional Tandy/PCjr Sound Card, Optional Tandy/PCjr Analog Joystick.

(Zerothis) - # 2010-01-29 17:19:52