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Caverns of Mars
1981 video game
1981 video game
Caverns of Mars is a vertically scrolling shooter for Atari 8-bit computers.
It was written by Greg Christensen, with some features later added by Richard Watts, and published by the Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1981.[3]Caverns of Mars became the best selling APX software of all-time and was moved into Atari, Inc.'s official product line, first on diskette, then on cartridge.
Biography.
In Caverns of Mars, the player descends into cave and at the end must retrace their steps back to the top. Christensen wrote two less successful follow-ups, one of which scrolls horizontally and is similar to Scramble.
Gameplay
Caverns of Mars is a scrolling shooter similar in concept and visual style to the 1981 Konami arcade video game Scramble.[5] Christensen changed the orientation of the levels, having the player fly down into them as opposed to horizontally through them.
Unlike Scramble, rockets in Cavern