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Moon Patrol

Atari 2600

1982IremTopAtari, WMS Industries, Williams Electronics, IREM, Atarisoft

Atari's 2600 Moon Patrol: a lunar buggy that always drives forward — jump pits and rocks, and each shot fires both ahead and straight up.

Facts

  • Irem arcade 1982; Williams Electronics in North America.
  • Designed by Takashi Nishiyama.
  • Often credited with introducing full parallax scrolling in side-scrollers.

Related games

  • Jungle Hunt · Atari 2600The other early parallax arcade Atari ported

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