|
- River raid -
|
|
River raid is a very early action game that was released first on the Atari 2600
and later ported to a number of different systems. You pilot an aircraft through
mazelike levels while you have to avoid or destroy anything that comes in your
path. Enemy craft consist of helicopters, boats and other planes. You won't be
able to stay in the air forever because your fuelsupply is limited so along the
way there are fuel depots which you can fly over to increase your fuel. Fly slowly
because this will maximize the amount of fuel you get. Later levels become increasingly
difficult by the canyons that become very narrow, fastmoving planes and helicopters
and tanks that can fire back at you.
The simplicity of the game means that by today's standards this is pretty
outdated but it does what it is designed for very well and that is to instantly
put players into action without bothering you with storylines or anything.
I actually found it quit fun to play after all these years but it could
not hold my attention for very long simply because the levels only allow
for a limited amount of variety. Still this was a pretty popular game in
it's days and will definately appeal to some of the more nostalgic fans.
Overal rating: 6/10
Erde Kaiser
This game was released for several different systems here are some notes:
Atari
2600 |
Released in
1982.
Game has been tested but not completed with Stella v1.4.1.
The first version of the game and it was very succesfull when it was released. |
C64 |
Released in
1984.
Game has been tested but not completed with CCS64 v2.0 win.
Identical to the original atari 2600 version. |
Colecovision |
Released in
1984.
Like most games released on this system it is the best version compared
to the systems of it's own time. |
MS-DOS
|
Released in
1997.
This is actually a remake of the Atari 2600 version. It has no sound but
it is remarkably similar to the original. |
Intellivision |
Released in
1983.
Game has been tested but not completed with Bliss Java v1.61.
The graphics differ slightly from the originals but otherwise it's the same. |
ZX
Spectrum |
Released in
1984.
Game has been tested but not completed with emuZwin v2.5.
All the vehicles have only one color and uses a different resolution than
the others. |
|
Date added |
Dec-28-2004 19:20 |
Name |
River raid |
Developer |
Activision
|
Publisher |
Activision
|
First released |
1982 |
Genre |
Action
|
Sponsored links |
|
Download |
Atari 2600, filesize: 4 Kb
Colecovision, filesize: 11 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 9 Kb
Intellivision, filesize: 8 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 19 Kb
ZX Spectrum, filesize: 18 Kb
|
Links |
|
Manual |
Download manual
, filesize: 516 Kb
Zip contains the scanned manual from the Atari 2600. |
Solve / Docs |
No solve available
No extra docs available |
|
|
|
|
Sitestats
|
24-Apr-2018
Games: 428
Utils: 30
Manuals: 213
Solves: 92
|
|