Astro Fighter
From Sega Retro
Astro Fighter | |||||||||||||
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System(s): Arcade | |||||||||||||
Publisher: Gremlin/Sega | |||||||||||||
Developer: Data East | |||||||||||||
Genre: Scrolling shooter | |||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||
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Astro Fighter is a scrolling shooter arcade game released by Data East in 1979. Though Data East distributed the game in Japan, overseas operations were handled by Gremlin/Sega (though the cabinets themselves only credit Gremlin).
It was notably the first shoot 'em up with multiple vertical scrolling levels with a boss battle at the end of each level. It was thus one of the first games Sega marketed with the Multi-Phase concept.[3] It became a major hit in North America, where it was the fourth highest-grossing arcade video game in 1980 (below Asteroids, Galaxian and Space Invaders).[4] Sega were not involved in the release of the 1981 sequel, Super Astro Fighter.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Astro Fighter/Magazine articles.
References
- ↑ Overseas Readers Column: Data East Celebrated Its 10th Anniversary, Game Machine, No. 286, Amusement Press, 1 July 1986, p. 26
- ↑ File:CashBox US 1979-12-15.pdf, page 41
- ↑ File:CashBox US 1980-05-10.pdf, page 57
- ↑ File:PlayMeter US Volume 06 No. 21.pdf, page 30