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Tombstone City

"One of the best TI99/4A games ever!" - Chris Forrest Aliens called "Morgs" are invading the old west. You must destroy them by shooting them from your "schooner". When you kill them, they turn into cactuses…

1 February 1981

Tombstone City is an arcade developed by Texas Instruments Incorporated, released 1 February 1981 on Texas Instruments TI-99.

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What Tombstone City is

Tombstone City is an arcade game developed by Texas Instruments Incorporated and released in 1981. It is available on Texas Instruments TI-99 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"One of the best TI99/4A games ever!" - Chris Forrest Aliens called "Morgs" are invading the old west. You must destroy them by shooting them from your "schooner". When you kill them, they turn into cactuses which create obstacles on the map. But if you kill a Morg while it is adjacent to an existing cactus, the Morg and the cactus are both eliminated from the map. Tombstone City was known as Saguaro City in Prototype but was later changed. TI released the source code to this game as part of its Editor/Assembler package.
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How it plays

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

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When did Tombstone City come out?
Tombstone City was released on 1 February 1981 for Texas Instruments TI-99.

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