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ARMAGEDDON

PUBLISHER
Ocean

AUTHOR
The rather cryptic A.W.S.

YEAR
1983

CATEGORY
Arcade Rip-off

DESCRIPTION
It's Atari's Missile Command by everything but name.

CONTROLS
S - Up, X - Down, N - Left, M - Right, A - Fire
Kempston Joystick

INSTRUCTIONS
Protect your six cities from the incoming nukes by destroying
them as they approach. Missiles come down from the top of the
screen at varying angles and you must use your limited supply of
ammo wisely to blow them out of the sky before they destroy or
contaminate your cities. Take care not to allow your gun turret
to run out of ammo, or the missiles come down with a vengeance
with nothing to stop them! Destroy all of the weapons and it's
onto the next stage. But watch out for the satellites which will
fire multiple warheads at your cities from much lower!

INLAY CARD TEXT

CHEATS
None that I know of.

SEQUELS/PREQUELS
None.

SCORES RECEIVED
Pre-mags? Possibly.

URL
Grab it from a number of sites, search for armagedd.zip, or
direct from
ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl:/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/a/armagedd.zip

GENERAL FACTS
A pretty good arcade conversion, albeit an unlicensed one!

The major differences between this and the arcade Missile Command
is that you only get one turret to fire from rather than three,
and the super bombs (which you had to hit directly with a
missile, they just bounced off explosions) are missing.

One of Ocean's first games, I think. Back in the days when they
only had one loading screen and just changed the name of the game
for each release.

As is typical of Missile Command, there is no end to the game -
the only guarantee is that you will eventually be destroyed.
Armageddon gets remarkably fast at later stages!

NOTES
Probably the oldest Missile Command game on the Speccy, and also
the best as far as I'm concerned! Funny how the old games are the
best.