Video game · 1987
Zarch
Released 1 February 1987 on MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum and Acorn Archimedes
- Developer
- David Braben
- Publisher
- Superior Software
- Made in
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Genre
- Shooter, Simulator
- Themes
- Action
About Zarch
The player, piloting a lone craft with limited firepower, must defend a finite landscape against ever increasing waves of enemy craft. In Zarch, the landscape is being invaded by aliens who are spreading a virus across the landscape. The seeder vessels are slow-moving, predictable, and easily destroyed, but as the game progresses they are supported by increasing numbers of flying support craft, which do not scatter virus but instead attack the player. The seeder vessels scatter red virus particles across the landscape. As they land, they turn the green landscape to brown and red, and cause the trees to mutate.
Summary: IGDB.
Release dates
| MS-DOS | 1 February 1987 |
|---|---|
| ZX Spectrum | 1 February 1987 |
| Acorn Archimedes | later, date unknown |
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