Spacecraft 1
Release type: Shareware
Release date: 1993 (original release)
Levels: 7
Author: Gary Acord
Website: Acord Games
Registration bonus: Spacecraft 2 and Spacecraft 3, hint sheet, secret bonus game, copies of all shareware games, membership in the Zapper Game Club
Registration price: $20
Related games: Zapper 4-B: Holy Neverwhere!, Nebula, Penguin Pete
FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!
Not to be mistaken for Matthew Groves's Space Cadet.
Appears to have originally been titled Starcraft. For what that's worth.
Actually a pretty straightforward game, compared to the webs of some other Gary Acord projects.
Contents
Story
Fly through space in your starcraft as you battle alien rockets & blast meteors & comets & fight your way to your destination home.
Instructions
- Arrow keys - move around.
- [X]-jump right. [Z]-jump left.
- [Space]- shoot low.
- [A]-shoot high.
- [P] - pick up objects.
- [N] - small right jump.
- [F1]-instructions.
- [F2]-inventory.
- [F5]-save game. [F6]-load game
- [F1O]- about Acord Games.
Credits
Resources
- Levels 1 and 3 are from Acord's game Holy Neverwhere!.
- Stage 2 is based on the star map from Nebula.
- Level 4 appears basically original.
- Level 5 is a variation of level 16 from Zapak.
- Levels 6 and 7 are based on mazes from Penguin Pete.
Availability
Distributed through contemporary bulletin boards, through the author's Website, and through several third-party mirror archives.
Archive History
On November 7, 2010, Demu.org maintainer Swizzle pointed out the archive of Gary Acord material on the site -- which was swiftly added to the Game-Maker Archive.
Links
Interviews / Articles
- Inside the Mind of Gary Acord (Gamasutra)
Listings
Misc. Links
Downloads
- Spacecraft (720 kB)
- Level 1 map (? kB)
- Level 2 map (? kB)
- Level 3 map (? kB)
- Level 4 map (? kB)
- Level 5 map (? kB)
- Level 6 map (? kB)
- Level 7 map (? kB)
