Air-Sea Battle
Air-Sea Battle | ||||||||||||||||
Atari 2600 - USA - 1st edition. |
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Air-Sea Battle, also sold as Target Fun, is a single-screen multi-player fixed shooter developed by Larry Kaplan at Atari and published by Atari in 1977 for the Atari 2600.
Contents
Personal
Own? | Yes. As Air-Sea Battle and as Target Fun with the manual. |
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Won? | Yes. I can beat the AI in every category. |
Finished | Around 1987. |
My family had this game as part of a large collection of Atari games we got at a garage sale in the mid 1980s. While we gave that version to our cousin around 1988, I got a couple other copies later in life.
Review
3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Best Version: Atari 2600
— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- I like the use of gradient backgrounds to simulate distance.
Bad
- Aiming is pretty clunky.
- Although you can pretty much tell what everything is supposed to be, the graphics are pretty bad.
- The game features no music, and the sound is pretty grating.
- Every game has a fixed time limit of 2 minutes 16 seconds.
- While the game claims to feature a computer-controlled player, it really just fires continuously without attempting to aim, so it's easy to beat.
Ugly
- Despite boasting 27 different games, they're all variations on the same theme, and they all get boring very quickly.
Media
Box Art
As usual, Atari makes box art that is better than the game. The collage by Cliff Spohn features all the game types and clearly shows what they game will entail. Pretty nice art.
Documentation
Videos
Play Online
Download
Dennis Debro has disassembled and commented the source code of Air-Sea Battle.
Representation
Strong female character? | Fail | There are no characters. |
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Bechdel test? | Fail | There are no characters. |
Strong person of color character? | Fail | There are no characters. |
Queer character? | Fail | There are no characters. |
Credits
Role | Staff |
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Designer | Larry Kaplan |
Programmer | Larry Kaplan |
Atari Cover | Cliff Spohn (as C. Spohn) |
Titles
Language | Native | Transliteration | Translation |
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English | Air-Sea Battle | ||
English | Target Fun |
Links
Categories:
- Video Games
- 1977 Video Games
- Video games developed by Atari
- Video games published by Atari
- Atari 2600 Games
- Video Game Genre - Action
- Video Game Genre - Fixed shooter
- Video Game Genre - Shooter
- Video Game Genre - Single-screen
- Media Theme - War
- Multiplayer
- Multiplayer Simultaneous versus
- Software Distribution Model - Commercial
- Video Games I Own
- Video Games I've Beaten
- Video Game Rating - 3
- Video Game Graphics Rating - 2
- Video Game Sound Rating - 2
- Video games which can be played online
- Video games without a strong female character
- Video games that fail the Bechdel test
- Video games without a strong person of color character
- Video games without a queer character
- Video Game Prime Order - Action, Strategy, Adventure