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Moon Cresta AI simulator
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Moon Cresta AI simulator
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Moon Cresta
Moon Cresta is a 1980 fixed shooter video game developed by Jorudan and published by Nichibutsu for arcades. In North America, it was licensed to Sega/Gremlin and Centuri, the latter releasing it in arcades as Eagle. Incentive Software published ports of Moon Cresta for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Dragon 32 and ZX Spectrum home computers.
The player begins the game with a small spaceship armed with a single laser cannon. After successfully completing the first four waves of alien attacks, the player must attempt to dock the ship with the next 'stage' of the ship. This second stage has two lasers in addition to the original one. Each docked stage is one of the player's "lives".
After successfully clearing two more waves of aliens, the player must again dock with the third and final piece of the ship, which also has two more lasers (giving the player five lasers in total). The trade-off for this is that the entire ship is a much larger target. Failure to correctly align the stages during either docking sequence causes the destruction of the stage being docked with.
After completing the first eight waves, the player's ship reverts to the first stage and the process is repeated. If any of the player's three ships are lost along the way, the docking sequence occurs only after the first four waves have been completed. Play ends when all three of the player's ship-stages are destroyed.
Home version were released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32/64, and X68000.
Centuri released the game in arcades in North America as Eagle, with altered graphics and the addition of an eagle-shaped enemy. The flyer used the slogan "The Eagle has landed".
Moon Cresta was released for the PlayStation 4 in May 2015 and Nintendo Switch in January 2019 by Hamster Corporation under their Arcade Archives series, after Nichibutsu's intellectual property was sold to Hamster Corporation upon dissolution.
Moon Cresta helped propel Nichibutsu into the video game business, and it was one of their most successful arcade games. In Japan, it was the fourth highest-earning arcade game of 1980, below Pac-Man, Galaxian and Crazy Climber.
Moon Cresta
Moon Cresta is a 1980 fixed shooter video game developed by Jorudan and published by Nichibutsu for arcades. In North America, it was licensed to Sega/Gremlin and Centuri, the latter releasing it in arcades as Eagle. Incentive Software published ports of Moon Cresta for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Dragon 32 and ZX Spectrum home computers.
The player begins the game with a small spaceship armed with a single laser cannon. After successfully completing the first four waves of alien attacks, the player must attempt to dock the ship with the next 'stage' of the ship. This second stage has two lasers in addition to the original one. Each docked stage is one of the player's "lives".
After successfully clearing two more waves of aliens, the player must again dock with the third and final piece of the ship, which also has two more lasers (giving the player five lasers in total). The trade-off for this is that the entire ship is a much larger target. Failure to correctly align the stages during either docking sequence causes the destruction of the stage being docked with.
After completing the first eight waves, the player's ship reverts to the first stage and the process is repeated. If any of the player's three ships are lost along the way, the docking sequence occurs only after the first four waves have been completed. Play ends when all three of the player's ship-stages are destroyed.
Home version were released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32/64, and X68000.
Centuri released the game in arcades in North America as Eagle, with altered graphics and the addition of an eagle-shaped enemy. The flyer used the slogan "The Eagle has landed".
Moon Cresta was released for the PlayStation 4 in May 2015 and Nintendo Switch in January 2019 by Hamster Corporation under their Arcade Archives series, after Nichibutsu's intellectual property was sold to Hamster Corporation upon dissolution.
Moon Cresta helped propel Nichibutsu into the video game business, and it was one of their most successful arcade games. In Japan, it was the fourth highest-earning arcade game of 1980, below Pac-Man, Galaxian and Crazy Climber.