Yars' Revenge
| Yars' Revenge | |||
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| Studio | Howard Scott Warshaw | ||
| Publisher | Atari | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1981 | ||
| platform | Atari 2600 , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance | ||
| genre | Shoot 'em up | ||
| Subject | space | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | joystick | ||
| medium | Cartridge | ||
| language | English | ||
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Yars 'Revenge is a shoot' em up - video game , which by Howard Scott Warshaw developed and for the first time in 1981 by Atari for the Atari VCS was released. It was laterportedto the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance .
Backstory
An alien being named Qotile destroyed planet IV in the Razak solar system . The inhabitants of the solar system - the insects -like yars (mutated flies) - want to take in the destruction of revenge. From planet III they want to attack and destroy Qotile in its base.
Gameplay
The player controls a yar . The aim of the game is to destroy the qotile on the right edge of the screen, which is protected by an energy shield. The shield can be dismantled by touching it or by shooting at it. If the shield has been dismantled to such an extent that Qotile is unprotected, it can be destroyed using the Zorlon weapon. Qotile has two weapon systems for defense: a missile constantly pursues the player and cannot be destroyed by the player. However, it is harmless within a neutral zone on the field of play, but the player cannot shoot within this zone either. The second weapon is a swirl , which Qotile uses to shoot the character at random intervals.
Development history
Yars' Revenge was developed by Howard Scott Warshaw and published by Atari in 1981 . The game was originally developed as a port of the arcade game Star Castle , but the gameplay was changed in the course of development. Yars' Revenge is one of the most popular in-house developments released for the Atari 2600.
In 1999 a remake of the game for the Game Boy Color was released. Another release followed in 2005 along with Pong and Asteroids for the Game Boy Advance . The game is still integrated into the Atari Flashback consoles. The Atari Flashback II system also contains the successor Yars' Return, which was specially developed for this console .
reception
Yars' Revenge was one of the second tier of computer games that the Museum of Modern Art added to its permanent exhibition on June 28, 2013.
Trivia
- The Yars and the Razak solar system were named after Ray Kassar , Atari's CEO at the time .
- The Atari 2600 version was accompanied by a small comic that explains the story of the game.
- The game has an Easter Egg : If Qotile has been destroyed by the Zorlon weapon and the player moves vertically from top to bottom along a line within the explosion, the developer's initials are displayed and the game is paused.
Literature and individual references
- Yars' Revenge. In: Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost: Racing the Beam. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2009, ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7 , pp. 81-97
Web links
- Yars' Revenge at www.thealmightyguru.com (English)
- Yars' Revenge at MobyGames (English)
- Yars' Revenge at AtariAge
Individual evidence
- ↑ Test report on www.thealmightyguru.com
- ↑ Paul Galloway: Video Games: Seven More Building Blocks in MoMA's Collection ( English ) In: Inside / Out. A MoMA / MoMA PS1 Blog . Museum of Modern Art . June 28, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2013.