Super Nova (video game)

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Super Nova
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Publisher Big Five Software
Programmers Bill Hogue
Jeff Konyu
Platform TRS-80
Release 1980
Genre Multidirectional shooter
Mode Single-player

Super Nova is clone of Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids arcade game published by Big Five Software for the TRS-80 in 1980. [1] [2] Co-author Bill Hogue called Super Nova "the game that started the company." [3]

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Gameplay

Super Nova is a game in which the player uses missiles to blow asteroids into smaller chunks, and then split them into smaller hunks which can then be completely destroyed. [4] [2]

Reception

Jon Mishcon reviewed Super Nova in The Space Gamer No. 36. [4] Mishcon commented that "I found this game to be a real challenge. Recommended for any arcade buff." [4] In the video game magazine Moves (#57), Ian Chadwick described Super Nova as "exciting", though criticized the lack of sound effects. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Reed, Matthew. "Super Nova". trs-80.org.
  2. 1 2 Linzmayer, Owen (September 1981). "Bringing Home the Arcade". Creative Computing . Vol. 7, no. 9. Morristown, NJ: Creative Computing. pp. 180–183 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Hogue, Bill. "TRS-80 Games". Big Five Software.
  4. 1 2 3 Mishcon, Jon (February 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (36). Steve Jackson Games: 28.
  5. ↑ Chadwick, Ian. (June 1981). Reviews of SSI's. Moves, 57, p.14-15. https://strategyandtacticspress.com/library-files/Moves%20Issue57.pdf
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