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Release Date calendar
December 1, 1981
Platform joystick
Arcade
Game Type type
Released
Max Players players
4
Overview

Eliminator (エリミネーター) is an arcade game developed by Sega/Gremlin, and published by Sega in Japan and Sega/Gremlin in US for the G80 vector arcade hardware. It was released in 1981. It is a top-down space shooter set within a bounded playfield, where the player maneuvers a ship using rotation, thrust and forward-firing controls (much like Asteroids or Space War). Each stage is populated by autmated drone ships (or by competing players), and dominated by the titular enemy: a moving, rotating space fortress surrounded by a lethal force field. This circular force field instantly destroys anything that smacks against it. Shots fired by the player (and the drones) are non-lethal: the target is simply kicked back across the playfield, bouncing off the walls. The exception is the enemy ship hidden inside the Eliminator - it can (and must) be destroyed by sneaking a shot through the structure's narrow opening. If this isn't done quickly enough, it will emerge and start pursuing the player with deadly fireballs.

Alternate Names

No information available

Cooperative

Yes

ESRB

Not Rated

Genres
Shooter
Developers
Sega/Gremlin
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