Laser Zone

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Description

One of Jeff Minter's early eighties shoot'em'ups in his typical frantical style, Laser Zone has you controlling not one, but two "zone gunners" in a constrained playfield. Controlled with only one joystick, you move one zone gunner on a vertical wall and one at the bottom. Wave upon wave of nasties come into the zone, and must be shot down before they reach either wall, where neither gun can reach them and they advance toward you. You can try to escape perpetually, since your movements wrap around the screen borders, at least until another enemy has reached your wall, but it is better to use up one of your electro bolts that will erase everything on the screen.

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Alternate Titles

• "Lazer Zone" -- VIC-20 title
• "Laserzone" -- C-16 advertisement title.

User Reviews

Because two lasers are better than one

VIC-20

Katakis | カタキス (40955)

Critic Reviews

Commodore User	VIC-20	Dec, 1983	19 out of 20	95
Commodore User	VIC-20	Nov, 1983	18 out of 20	90
Crash!	ZX Spectrum	Apr, 1984	81 out of 100	81
Home Computing Weekly	VIC-20	May 17, 1983		80
Home Computing Weekly	Dragon 32/64	Mar 13, 1984		80
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	May, 1984	8 out of 10	80
Tilt	VIC-20	May, 1984		67
Tilt	Commodore 64	May, 1984		67
Home Computing Weekly	ZX Spectrum	Mar 06, 1984		60

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Trivia

C-16 port

The game was also ported to the Commodore C-16 and released in 1986 as part of the compilation Matrix & Laserzone by Ariolasoft. Advertisement of the game points out it was re-written for the C-16, with "even faster fire-rate" than the original while still keeping the "hallucinatory camels" in the game (Source: Advertisement as printed in Computer Gamer #16, 1986/7).