Radar Scope
Radar Scope is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D2 and published by Nintendo. The player assumes the role of the Sonic Spaceport starship and must wipe out formations of an enemy race…
Radar Scope is an arcade developed by Ikegami Tsushinki, released 1 November 1980 on Arcade.
What Radar Scope is
Radar Scope is an arcade game developed by Ikegami Tsushinki and released in 1980. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Radar Scope is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D2 and published by Nintendo. The player assumes the role of the Sonic Spaceport starship and must wipe out formations of an enemy race known as the Gamma Raiders before they destroy the player's space station. Gameplay is similar to Space Invaders and Galaxian, but set in a forced perspective angle. Radar Scope was a commercial failure and created a financial crisis for the subsidiary Nintendo of America. Its president, Minoru Arakawa, pleaded for his father-in-law, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, to send him a new game that could convert and salvage thousands of unsold Radar Scope machines. This prompted the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Radar Scope launched on 1 November 1980, within three weeks of Battlezone, Rally-X and Berzerk.
Released around the same time: Battlezone, Rally-X, Berzerk.
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