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Lunar Rescue

The game starts with the player's spacecraft docked inside the mothership at the top of the screen. Below the mothership is an asteroid field and below that, the surface of the moon. There are three platforms…

1 November 1979

Lunar Rescue is an arcade developed by Taito, released 1 November 1979 on Arcade.

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What Lunar Rescue is

Lunar Rescue is an arcade game developed by Taito and released in 1979. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game starts with the player's spacecraft docked inside the mothership at the top of the screen. Below the mothership is an asteroid field and below that, the surface of the moon. There are three platforms which can be landed on and six stranded astronauts that need rescuing. You control a small spacecraft. The player must press the button to release their spacecraft from the mothership and manoeuvre through the asteroid field. The craft can only move left or right or use up a finite amount of fuel by engaging the thrust (the same button again) to slow its descent. If the craft is landed successfully on one of the available platforms, one of the astronauts will run towards and board the…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Lunar Rescue come out?
Lunar Rescue was released on 1 November 1979 for Arcade.

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