Software:Pioneer Plague
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Developer(s) | Bill Williams[1] |
Publisher(s) | Terrific Software Mandarin Software |
Platform(s) | Amiga |
Release | 1988 |
Genre(s) | Action |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Pioneer Plague is a game designed by Bill Williams for the Amiga computer[1] and published in 1988 by Mandarin Software and Terrific Software. It is one of the few games to use the Hold-And-Modify display mode of the Amiga for in-game graphics, a mode which allows thousands of colors to be displayed at once, but in a format that's better suited to static images than moving objects.[2] It may have been the first commercial game to use Hold-And-Modify.[citation needed] Pioneer Plague was not ported to other systems.
Williams also wrote the 1986 Amiga game Mind Walker.[1]
Reception
Pioneer Plague received an 88% from Amiga Computing and 86% from Zzap!64.[3] British magazine Computer and Video Games was less enthusiastic with an overall score of 39%, commending the graphics but criticizing playability.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers". https://dadgum.com/giantlist/.
- ↑ "Amiga Hold and Modify". http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Devices_Manual_guide/node02DC.html.
- ↑ "Pioneer Plague Reviews". http://amr.abime.net/review_48268.
- ↑ Dillon, Tony (February 1989). "Pioneer Plague". Computer and Video Games (88). https://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/magazines/Computer-and-Video-Games/Issue088/Pages/CVG08800043.jpg.
External links
- Pioneer Plague at MobyGames
- Pioneer Plague at Lemon Amiga
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