Menace

aka: Draconia

Released

1988 on Amiga

Credits

4 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

Publishers

Developers

DMA Design Limited

Moby Score

7.5

#6,366 of 163K

Critics

75% (13)

Players

(34)

Ranking

#423 on Amiga
#506 on Commodore 64

Collected By

22 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Side view
Gameplay: Arcade
Shooter
Setting: Sci-fi / futuristic

Amiga Specs [ all ]

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: 3.5" Floppy Disk
Number of Players Supported: 1 Player

Description

Six ruthless dictators have collaborated to create the planet Draconia, which contains some of the most gruesome and harmful life-forms imaginable, all indulging in some rather unsavoury actions. Thus, you must go in your spaceship to destroy them all.

The game is a side-scrolling R-Type-influenced shoot 'em up consisting of six visually-diverse levels. Waves of enemies come towards you to be shot, and reveal tokens, which when shot at will cycle through several available weapons. These include lasers, cannons, improved ship power and a shield.

Spellings

חיים או מוות - Hebrew spelling

Groups +

Genre: Scrolling shoot 'em up

Screenshots

Promos

Credits (Amiga version)

4 People

Programming	David Jones
Graphics / Artwork	Anthony Smith
Musician	David Whittaker (uncredited)
Cover artwork by	Ian Craig

Reviews

Critics

Average score: 75% (based on 13 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 34 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Discussion

Subject	By	Date
DOS port a bit half-arsed and even the Atari ST port	Andrew Fisher (695)	Mar 28th, 2023
Nostalgic Memories	Trekster (29)	Mar 26th, 2023

Trivia

Cancelled port

Harlequin Software was preparing an Atari 8-bit conversion in 1990, but serious illness to the programmer prevented it from being completed.

Development

Originally, the levels in Draconia had names such as "Irem Battlestation", "Konamian Graveyard" and "Jungles of Capcom", in reference to the famous coin-op shoot'em'up makers. This was changed at the last minute, along with the title of the game, but not before the July 1988 issue of Commodore User had managed to review it.

Information also contributed by Martin Smith.