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Monsters

Monsters is a variant of the arcade game Space Panic. It's a single screen platform game where the player has to kill monsters by digging holes in the ground. When the monsters then walk over the holes they…

31 December 1982

Monsters is a platform, released 31 December 1982 on BBC Microcomputer System.

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What Monsters is

Monsters was released in 1982. It was published by Acornsoft. It is available on BBC Microcomputer System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Monsters is a variant of the arcade game Space Panic. It's a single screen platform game where the player has to kill monsters by digging holes in the ground. When the monsters then walk over the holes they get trapped and the player can kill them by filling in the hole.
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

Monsters launched on 31 December 1982, within three weeks of Trashman, King Kong, Evolution and Xevious.

Released around the same time: Trashman, King Kong, Evolution, Xevious.

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When did Monsters come out?
Monsters was released on 31 December 1982 for BBC Microcomputer System.

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