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Astro Chase is a scrolling shoot 'em up game originally released by First Star Software in 1982 for the Atari 8-bit family. The game was initially published by First Star Software. The company later licensed certain platform rights to Parker Brothers for release on several games consoles, and to Exidy for use as an arcade game.Gameplay takes place on a 2D scrolling map of space around Earth, which the player has to defend from an alien force. The primary target are a number of Mega-Mines, which approach the Earth and must be destroyed. The game is level-based (there are 36), and after all the Mega-Mines are destroyed the game pr
Astro Chase is a scrolling shoot 'em up game originally released by First Star Software in 1982 for the Atari 8-bit family. The game was initially published by First Star Software. The company later licensed certain platform rights to Parker Brothers for release on several games consoles, and to Exidy for use as an arcade game.Gameplay takes place on a 2D scrolling map of space around Earth, which the player has to defend from an alien force. The primary target are a number of Mega-Mines, which approach the Earth and must be destroyed. The game is level-based (there are 36), and after all the Mega-Mines are destroyed the game progresses to the next level where players encounter a growing variety of enemy attack ships, with different speeds and offensive capabilities. An animated 'cut-scene' is played between each 4th level.In 1981, Atari introduced the "Star Award" for the best new program distributed though their Atari Program Exchange. Winner of the first $25,000 grand prize was Fernando Herrera, who won it for My First Alphabet, a kids game.,[1] Fernado was working at a computer retail store owned by Billy Blake who was also partners with Richard Spitalny at the time. Billy and Richard, then feature film producers, decided to start and fund an interactive software company to showcase Fernado's talents. Richard and Billy funded the company, naming it First Star Software. Astro Chase was the first release from the new company.The game was released on 7 December 1982, and quickly became a best seller, spending three months in Popular Computer Worlds top-ten list and became the first game ever to be awarded “Computer Game of the Month” by Dealerscope. This success led to a Commodore 64 port, and soon after a license with Parker Brothers who released it on the Atari home computers in cartridge format, along with Atari 5200 and ColecoVision ports. Exidy also licensed it for arcade us.In March 1994 the game was re-released on the Apple Macintosh by MacPlay as Astro Chase 3D with improved graphics and sound. This version won a International Summer Consumer Electronics Innovations ‘94 Software Showcase award, and Bob LeVitus said "This game is without question the most addictive, adrenaline-pumping title I’ve played all year
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Release date: 31 December 1969
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