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Arcade Archives: Moon Patrol

Moon Patrol is a side-scrolling action-shooting game released by IREM in 1982. Control a lunar rover as you jump to avoid obstacles, and move forward while defeating enemies that shoot missiles from above or…

22 March 2018

Arcade Archives: Moon Patrol is an arcade developed by Irem, released 22 March 2018 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Arcade Archives: Moon Patrol is

Arcade Archives: Moon Patrol is an arcade game developed by Irem and released in 2018. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Moon Patrol is a side-scrolling action-shooting game released by IREM in 1982. Control a lunar rover as you jump to avoid obstacles, and move forward while defeating enemies that shoot missiles from above or rockets towards you. The goal is to make it through the Beginner Course and and Champion Course.
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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. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Arcade Archives: Moon Patrol launched on 22 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.

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When did Arcade Archives: Moon Patrol come out?
Arcade Archives: Moon Patrol was released on 22 March 2018 for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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