Video Game

System:	BBC Micro / Electron
Title:	Planetoid
Publisher:	Acornsoft
Country:	UK
Date:	1982
Media Format:	Tape
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Cat#:	SGB15/C
Genre:	Shoot 'em Up, Side-Scroller
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Planetoid is a clone of the 1980 arcade game Defender from Williams.

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Folker 8th Jul 2021		I've added a rare Acornsoft product leaflet which shows this game under its original "Defender" guise. As such, it must date to no later than 1982. The other games listed are Snapper, Monsters and Philosopher's Quest, Acornsoft's earliest games.



Folker 12th Jun 2021		One of several excellent early Acornsoft games which were somewhat naively issued under their original names (Defender in this case), then hastily withdrawn and reworked under alternative titles. The original implementations of Pac-man, Defender, Asteroids et al demonstrated the capabilities of the Beeb to great effect, at a very early stage in its development. Original copies of the withdrawn titles are now very hard to find.



Quad5point1 26th Aug 2020

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