Pioneer Plague

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Pioneer Plague
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Developer Bill Williams [1]
Publishers Terrific Software
Mandarin Software
Platform Amiga
Release 1988
Genre Action
Mode Single-player

Pioneer Plague is a game designed by Bill Williams for the Amiga computer [1] and published in 1988 by Mandarin Software and Terrific Software. It is one of the few games to use the Hold-And-Modify display mode of the Amiga for in-game graphics, a mode which allows thousands of colors to be displayed at once, but in a format that's better suited to static images than moving objects. [2] It may have been the first commercial game to use Hold-And-Modify.[ citation needed ]Pioneer Plague was not ported to other systems.

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Williams also wrote the 1986 Amiga game Mind Walker . [1]

Reception

Pioneer Plague received an 88% from Amiga Computing and 86% from Zzap!64 . [3] British magazine Computer and Video Games was less enthusiastic with an overall score of 39%, commending the graphics but criticizing playability. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. ↑ "Amiga Hold and Modify". AmigaOS 3.5 Developer Docs.
  3. ↑ "Pioneer Plague Reviews". Amiga Magazine Rack.
  4. ↑ Dillon, Tony (February 1989). "Pioneer Plague". Computer and Video Games (88).


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