Astro Fighter
From Sega Retro
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| 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 distinct vertical scrolling levels and a boss battle at the end of each level. With its multi-level structure, it was one of the first games Sega marketed with the Multi-Phase concept.[4] 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).[5]
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
- ↑ Copyright Defenders and the British Videogame Crash
- ↑ File:CashBox US 1980-05-10.pdf, page 57
- ↑ File:PlayMeter US Volume 06 No. 21.pdf, page 30