Depthcharge
From Sega Retro
| Depthcharge | |||||||||||||
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| System(s): Sega VIC Dual | |||||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega | |||||||||||||
| Developer: Sega/Gremlin | |||||||||||||
| Genre: Shoot-'em-Up | |||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||
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Depthcharge is an arcade game released by Sega/Gremlin for Sega VIC Dual hardware in 1977. A version of the game was released by Taito in Japan the same year, called Sub Hunter, though it is unknown which version released first.
Players control a battleship on the surface of some water, moving left and right in an attempt to avoid enemy mines. One button drops a depth charge off the left hand side of the ship, another the right hand side, with the objective of destroying enemy submarines below.
Depthcharge pre-dates the slightly more successful (and more well known) Deep Scan though the gameplay is largely identical. Depthcharge has a monochrome display and lacks any sort of radar or ranking system.
Promotional material
US flyer
Physical scans
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