Atari 2600

Demon Attack

Description

Demon Attack is an arcade action game with gameplay similar to Space Invaders. You control a laser canon at the bottom of the screen, and need to destroy wave after wave of brightly colored demons. The demons bounce around the screen in bizarre patterns, and try to destroy your canon with bombs or lasers. When you shoot a demon, it will be replaced with another or will split into two smaller demons depending on which wave you are playing. When the required number of demons for the current round is finally destroyed, you can move on to the next, more difficult round.

Alternate Titles

• "Super Demon Attack" -- TI-99/A4 title
• "Demon Attack +" -- Jopac release title

Part of the Following Groups

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• Genre: Fixed-screen shoot 'em up

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User Reviews

Hypnotic and Zen like minimalistic shooter. A classic.	gametrader (229)
Simplistic and unexciting, even by 1982 standards	Martin Smith (63223)

The Press Says

The Atari Times	Jul 11, 2005	95 out of 100	95
Tilt	Mar, 1983	5 out of 6	83
VideoGame	Jun, 1991		80
IGN	Aug 26, 2008	7.5 out of 10	75
The Video Game Critic	Mar 22, 2002	B	75
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Dec 10, 2003	7 out of 10	70
TeleMatch	Jan, 1983	3 out of 6	60

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Trivia

Lawsuit

In 1982 Atari sued Imagic due to Demon Attack's similarity to Phoenix.

Version differences

The PC Booter version of Demon Attack was available on both a PCjr cartridge and a 5.25" disk. Both versions were identical, except the disk release had a title screen which was missing on the cartridge version (probably due to the more limited size of the PCjr cartridges.)

Awards

• Retro Gamer
  • Issue 46 - #13 in the “Top 25 Atari 2600 Games" poll

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