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Stronghold

On one of your patrols in deep space you encounter an abandoned base whose self-defense mechanisms are still functional. Upon detecting your presence the base launches several drones to destroy you. After…

60 1 July 1983

Stronghold is an arcade developed by CommaVid, Inc., released 1 July 1983 on Atari 2600.

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What Stronghold is

Stronghold is an arcade game developed by CommaVid, Inc. and released in 1983. It is available on Atari 2600 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

On one of your patrols in deep space you encounter an abandoned base whose self-defense mechanisms are still functional. Upon detecting your presence the base launches several drones to destroy you. After having conquered three of these attack waves a force field containing of three layers will form at the bottom auf the screen protecting a SAM crawler. Your objctive now ist to shoot a gap into the horizontally moving force field in order to eliminate the SAM crawler while still being under attack by hostile drones. As soon as you breached the force field you have to pay attention not being shot down by the SAM crawler which will exploit the fact of you destroying the force field. The game…
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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.

How it was received

Stronghold holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1983 averaged 75, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

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When did Stronghold come out?
Stronghold was released on 1 July 1983 for Atari 2600.

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