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Mail Order Monsters

Players create a variety of monsters and equip them with futuristic and modern weapons to do battle. Two players can play and compete at the same time and fight each other, or play capture the flag. Monsters…

1 April 1985

Mail Order Monsters is a strategy, released 1 April 1985 on Atari 8-bit and Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What Mail Order Monsters is

Mail Order Monsters was released in 1985. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Atari 8-bit and Commodore C64/128/MAX.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Players create a variety of monsters and equip them with futuristic and modern weapons to do battle. Two players can play and compete at the same time and fight each other, or play capture the flag. Monsters can be stored on diskette and can be upgraded by victories against other monsters or computer opponents
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Mail Order Monsters launched on 1 April 1985, within three weeks of Commando, The Rats and Starion.

Released around the same time: Commando, The Rats, Starion.

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When did Mail Order Monsters come out?
Mail Order Monsters was released on 1 April 1985 for Atari 8-bit and Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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