Moon patrol

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Moon patrol
Moon Patrol Logo.jpg
Studio Irem
Publisher Irem, Williams Electronics , Atari, Midway
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 1982
genre Shoot 'em up (vehicle)
Game mode 1 player or 2 players (alternating)
control 2-way joystick ; 2 buttons
casing default
Arcade system Irem M-52 = Main CPU :
Z80 (@ 3.072 MHz)
Sound CPU:
M6803 (@ 894.886 kHz)
Sound chips:
2 × AY-3-8910 , 2 × MSM5205
monitor Raster resolution 240 × 252 (4: 3 horizontal) Color palette: 576
information first computer game with parallax scrolling
The original arcade circuit boards from Moon Patrol
Arcade machine with Moon Patrol

Moon Patrol is a classic arcade game from the Japanese game manufacturer Irem , which was first published in 1982. The game was later ported to many other systems.

Gameplay

The player controls a moon buggy (moon buggy), which he sees from the side on the playing field and which drives over the lunar surface. While driving the moon car, he has to avoid obstacles such as craters or mines. The moon car is attacked at the same time by UFOs from the air and by tanks that are traveling on land. Moon Patrol was one of the first video games to introduce side scrolling into the game. The first was Defender . Moon Patrol is parallax scrolling , with the foreground moving faster compared to the background.

The map is divided into five different sections (E, J, O, T and Z). As with racing games, these serve as checkpoints where times are compared with the average.

Others

There is a bootleg for Moon Patrol under the name Moon Ranger . The Irem M-52 arcade hardware is the forerunner and very similar to the Irem M-62 .

Ports

Web links

Commons : Moon Patrol  - collection of images, videos and audio files