Pioneer Plague
| Pioneer Plague | |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) |
Terrific Software Mandarin Software |
| Designer(s) | Bill Williams[1] |
| Platform(s) | Amiga |
| Release | 1988 |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Pioneer Plague is a game designed by Bill Williams for the Amiga computer[1] and published in 1988 by Mandarin Software and Terrific Software. It is one of the few games to use the Hold-And-Modify display mode of the Amiga for in-game graphics, a mode which allows thousands of colors to be displayed at once, but in a format that's better suited to static images than moving objects.[2] It may have been the first commercial game to use Hold-And-Modify. Pioneer Plague was not ported to other systems.
Williams also wrote the 1986 Amiga game Mind Walker.[1]
Reception
Pioneer Plague received an 88% from Amiga Computing and 86% from Zzap!64.[3] British magazine Computer and Video Games was less enthusiastic with an overall score of 39%, commending the graphics but criticizing playability.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers". dadgum.com.
- ↑ "Amiga Hold and Modify". AmigaOS 3.5 Developer Docs.
- ↑ "Pioneer Plague Reviews". Amiga Magazine Rack.
- ↑ Dillon, Tony (February 1989). "Pioneer Plague". Computer and Video Games (88).
External links
- Pioneer Plague at Lemon Amiga