Gorf

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Published by

CBS Electronics

Developed by

Bally Midway Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Released

1982

Platforms

Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, VIC-20

Genre

Action

Perspective

3rd-Person Perspective, Top-Down

Non-Sport

Arcade, Sci-Fi / Futuristic, Shooter

Misc

Coin-Op Conversion

	MobyRank	MobyScore
Commodore 64	...	...

Atari 8-bit	...	...

Atari 2600	...	3.0

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Trivia

Arcade machine play screens of Gorf can be seen in these movies - 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and 1983's Joysticks. An arcade cabinet can also be seen in 2006's The Benchwarmers.

Contributed by Scaryfun (5570) on Feb 10, 2008.

Gorf is an acronym for 'Galactic Orbital Robot Force'.

Contributed by John Wallace (27) on Jun 24, 2005.

The programmer called it Gorf since it's Frog spelled backwards. (I don't know why either.)

Contributed by Santa

(848) on Nov 27, 2003.

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