Description
Enemy airships are approaching your command base! You need to fly your five plane squadron into battle to defend it. Tac-Scan is a conversion of the arcade game. You control a squadron of five ships at the bottom of the screen, your goal is to earn as many points as possible by destroying the various enemies which will be attacking. If one of the ships in your squadron is hit by enemy fire, it will be destroyed. The game ends when all five ships have been destroyed. As you progress through the game, you will occasionally have the chance to replenish missing ships. Everytime you complete a round by shooting ten enemies, an extra ship will float by on the screen. You can add this ship to your squadron by catching it in an empty space in the formation. Every time you complete four rounds, the game will advance to the next level with increased difficulty!
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Trivia
A VIC-20 version of Tac/Scan was also commissioned by Sega, but never published. Apparently one copy of the unreleased game was kept by the programmer,
Joe Sengir, so chances are that this prototype will one day be released.
Similarly, versions for Intellivision, Atari computers, the Atari 5200 and the Colecovision were mentioned in contemporary games press. The Colecovision port was handled by
Nuvatec and its programmers
Jim Wolf and
Joe Clark but development was halted by Coleco after two stages had been converted.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Servo (55944) on Jul 21, 2003.
