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词条 Cavern Creatures
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  1. Description

  2. Reception

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox video game
|title = Cavern Creatures
|image = Cavern Creatures title.png
|caption = Title screen
|publisher = Datamost
|programmer = Paul Lowrance[1]
|released = {{vgy|1983}}
|genre = Scrolling shooter
|modes = Single-player
|platforms = Apple II
}}Cavern Creatures is a vertically scrolling shooter for the Apple II, written by Paul Lowrance and published by Datamost in 1983.[1] The title art is by Art Huff. The game is similar to Caverns of Mars for the Atari 8-bit family.[3]

Description

The player controls a small craft, navigating it through a series of winding caverns and tunnels while shooting or avoiding obstacles. The caverns scroll from the bottom of the screen to the top at a fixed speed, so the player must always move forward.

The obstacles filling the tunnels are mostly the eponymous "creatures" and appear as simple icons like smiley faces, floppy diskettes, birds, eyes, apples, bunches of grapes, Pac-Man ghosts, baseball hats, turrets, etc. Many of these objects are animated, but they do not actually move about. The player's craft fires bolts of energy simultaneously in three directions (left, right and forward) that destroy the creatures but consume the ship's energy, tracked by a green bar at the bottom of the screen. Energy is replenished by shooting occasional "tanks" on the tunnel walls.

Special objects in the caverns include indestructible Rubik's cube-like boxes that can be shot to gain extra points, indestructible wriggling snakes (one of the cavern's few mobile opponents), and pulsing energy barriers.

The craft is destroyed if it strikes any object or the cavern wall; a new one can be put back into play at any position on the screen. The game ends when the last craft is destroyed or when the player beats the final challenge. The game's introduction promises that "the end battle will be a surprise that no one can miss."

Reception

Softline noted Cavern Creatures{{'}} resemblance to the Atari 8-bit family game Caverns of Mars, and praised its "top-notch ... wonderful" Apple II graphics. The magazine concluded that it "combines the best action of maze games with the excitement and challenge of the arcade".[2]

References

1. ^{{cite web |last1=Hague |first1=James |title=The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers |url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/}}
2. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1984&pub=6&id=15 | title=Cavern Creatures | work=Softline | date=Jan–Feb 1984 | accessdate=29 July 2014 | author=Shore, Howard A. | pages=49–50}}

External links

  • Virtual Apple: Cavern Creatures
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