Scorpion (video game)

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Scorpion is a

platform/shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Digital Magic Software for the Amiga in 1989.[1]
The game was also re-released as Fly Fighter, with another title screen and another order of levels.

Gameplay

The player fights hordes of enemies while traversing five side-scrolling levels, such as a harbour, jungle and ice land,[2] each of which is guarded by a powerful boss.[3] The player character attacks enemies by firing energy bolts from their fingers.[4]

Plot

The protagonist Scorpion is ostensibly fighting to rescue the kidnapped Princess of Scorpia. In a surprise ending, Scorpion kills the evil princess, revealing herself to be her good sister and now-sole heir to the throne.[5]

Reception

The game received the ratings of 93% in

CU Amiga, and 47% in The One
. According to Amiga Computing, "Everything about Scorpion screams quality and style, except for the box illustration which is a little iffy. The game is a zany
Green Beret hybrid with deliriously large, fast characters and plenty of bit noises."[6] Computer and Video Games called it "a competently executed game, let down by some easily corrected errors, and suffer[ing] from not enough outside criticism before release."[7]

References

  1. ^ "TheOne Magazine Issue 11". August 1989. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  2. ^ "TheOne Magazine Issue 07". April 1989. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  3. EMAP
    : 36.
  4. Newsfield Publications
    : 44. May 1989.
  5. ^ "Ending for Scorpion(Amiga)". Vgmuseum.com. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  6. ^ "Amiga Computing Magazine Issue 013". June 1989. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  7. ^ "Computer and Videogames Magazine Issue 091". May 1989. Retrieved 2015-05-22.

External links

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