Army Moves

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Army Moves

Developer(s)	Dinamic Software
Publisher(s)	Imagine Software
Release date(s)	1986, 1987, 1989
Genre(s)	Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Media	Cassette, Floppy disk
Input	Keyboard, Joystick

Army Moves is a scrolling shooter game developed by Dinamic Software for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX and ZX Spectrum. It was first released in 1986 and published by Imagine Software. Dinamic Software also developed a DOS version of the game, published in 1989 in Spain.

The game contains seven levels that are divided in two main sections. The first four levels make up the first section, where the player has to drive an army unit (jeep or helicopter) through a terrain, steering clear of hostile vehicles.

In the last three levels that comprise the second main section, one plays as a soldier who shoots enemies along his way. In level 5 the soldier must jump from rock to rock in a river, shooting hostile birds. Thereafter, the soldier makes his way into the enemy headquarters with the goal of retrieving secret documents.

Army Moves was regarded as a rather bad game on the Amiga — "Almost non-existent gameplay makes this very poor value for money", according to a review in Zzap!. However, it received mixed reviews from ZX Spectrum magazines and was successful enough in Spain to spawn two follow-ups, Navy Moves in 1988 and Arctic Moves in 1993. The later appeared only for the PC platform, and it included the first two chapters of the series, playable through a ZX Spectrum emulator, as an extra. A fourth entry in the series, Desert Moves was announced at the end of the game Arctic Moves, but never appeared.

The game music in non-Spanish versions is based on the Colonel Bogey March.