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Space Attack / Head On

Release Date calendar
1979
Platform joystick
Arcade
Game Type type
Released
Max Players players
2
Overview

SEGA partnered with Gremlin industries to release numerous arcade titles during the late 70s and early eighties. Space Attack / Head On belongs to the Dual series of arcade cabinets which offered players an option to play 2 games in one cabinet. - Space Attack is an arcade shooting game almost identical to Space Invaders. It also almost identical to another clone called Alpha Fighter, but with a different set of graphics. The player controls a tank at the bottom of the screen and shoots at endless waves of alien ships. It was manufactured in both an upright and cocktail cabinet style. - Head-On is an arcade racing game and the first known game where the player has to collect dots (a year before Pac-Man). Viewed from a top down perspective, the player has to race around a circuit consisting of five lanes and collect all the dots that lies scattered around. At the same time he has to watch out for the jam cars that move in the opposite direction. To dodge the jam cars the player swap lanes which can only be done in the middle of each straight. To move faster it's possible to accelerate but then it's only possible to change one lane at a time. At normal speed two lanes can be crossed in one move. A level is completed when all dots have been collected and when colliding with a jam car a life is lost. The game is over when all three lives are lost. As the player progresses through the levels he will come across more and faster jam cars. In later levels as many as three fast jam cars will be in his way.

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Cooperative

No

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