Annihilator
Your ship is at the bottom of the screen and you control it with the joystick. The aim of the game is to destroy as many aliens as possible before you lose your only ship. On every level a large group of…
Annihilator is an arcade, released 31 December 1982 on Commodore C64/128/MAX and Commodore VIC-20.
What Annihilator is
Annihilator was released in 1982. It was published by Victory Software Corporation. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX and Commodore VIC-20.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Your ship is at the bottom of the screen and you control it with the joystick. The aim of the game is to destroy as many aliens as possible before you lose your only ship. On every level a large group of aliens comes down from the top of the screen to the middle of the screen and you have to move left and right to avoid them and fire your ships weapon to destroy them.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Annihilator launched on 31 December 1982, within three weeks of Trashman, King Kong, Xevious and Grand Prix.
Released around the same time: Trashman, King Kong, Xevious, Grand Prix.
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