Attack on Altair
Published: February 1, 2009 - Last update: October 4, 2010 - 277 downloads
- Year
- 1983
- Genre
- Action
- Theme
- Arcade
- Publisher
- Windmill Software
- Developer
- Windmill Software
- Perspective
- Side-Scrolling
23 KiB
Description of Attack on Altair
Offering action in a world of arcade, Attack on Altair is an abandonware developed by Windmill Software and published by Windmill Software. Released in 1983, you wander around in a side-scrolling perspective.
Probably the rarest game from Windmill Software, maker of Digger, Attack on Altair is a shooter game that is entirely text-based –and not a very good one, at that. If you have played Space Invaders and its clones, you know what to expect here. It’s a bit similar to IBM Attack, another very old shooter—except here the objective is the much more mundane kill-aliens-to-save-the-galaxy affair. Action takes place on the surface of planet Altair, but without any real graphics it’s just too difficult making out the targets ;) Worth a try just to see what Windmill’s early days are like—before you put it down and play the timeless Digger instead.
Review by HOTUD
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dogpuke added this comment :
If you have trouble running this game chang graphics mode in DOSBox to Tandy.