Spy Hunter

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Spy Hunter
Spy Hunter arcade cabinet.jpg
Studio Bally Midway
Publisher Bally Midway
Senior Developer George Gomez
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 12/ 1983
genre Racing game / Shoot 'em up
Game mode 1 player
control Steering wheel , 2 gears; 5 buttons
casing Standard, sit-down
Arcade system Bally Midway MCR 3 = Main CPU : Z80 (@ 5 MHz)
Sound CPU: Z80 (@ 2 MHz)
Sound Chips: 2 × AY-3-8910 , DAC
monitor Raster resolution 480 × 480 (3: 4 vertical) Color palette: 68
Spy Hunter (Sit-In Version)

Spy Hunter is an arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1983 . It is an action game and is a mixture of a racing game and shoot 'em up . Spy Hunter was very successful; there were many ports . A film adaptation by Paul WS Anderson is planned.

Game description

As a spy, the player has to kill as many terrorists as possible with his fictional vehicle G-6155 Interceptor (a replica of a Chevrolet Camaros ) and thus prevent them from pursuing their plans. The view is shown from a bird's eye view; the direction of travel is north and often branches out. There are two gears, but they reach a very high speed. The weapons are machine guns, rockets, an oil film and a smoke screen. You can also use the fifth button to call a supply truck that brings more weapons. Later, the vehicle can turn into a boat. The following enemy vehicles exist (with different scores in the event of destruction):

  • King of the road
  • Jackknife
  • Executor
  • Crazy bomber (helicopter)
  • Barrel tipper (motorboat)
  • Doctor Torpedo (motorboat)

Portings / versions

There were implementations for all common game consoles and home computers (see categories).

In 1987 there was a direct successor with Spy Hunter II as an arcade version.

Other versions were Spy Hunter: Missile Crisis 2004 (for Zodiac ), SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run 2006 for PS2 and Xbox , as well as compilations for the PSP and clones like Major Motion (1985 for Atari ST). A remake is the freeware game Highway Pursuit by Retrospec , released in 2003 .

In 1984 a pinball machine from Bally appeared for the game .

music

The catchy theme song from the US television series Peter Gunn , composed by Henry Mancini , was used as background music . The earlier versions still had James Bond music, which could no longer be used due to legal problems.

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