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Gridrunner (VIC-20, C64, Atari 8-Bit)

This post, in which I write about the three (original) versions of Gridrunner included in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is for subscribers only! You can subscribe for just $1 a month at https://ko-fi.com/mathewkumar, but if you don’t fancy that, you can read or re-read my review of the release as a whole. And don’t forget there’s years of articles in our archive, and physical issues of exp. 2601 are still available for pre-order until the end of the month.

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UK 1985

‘Gridrunner’

[ATARI 8-BIT / C64 / VIC-20] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1983]

“Gridrunner is a series of shoot 'em up games written by Jeff Minter/Llamasoft. The original Gridrunner was first published for the Commodore Vic 20 in 1982, and ported to various 8-bit computer platforms. It is the developer's longest running series, and remains one of his most enduringly popular, with eight titles released between 1982 and 2018.

(...)Llamasoft released Gridrunner in 1982 for the unexpanded VIC-20. The game was written over the course of a single week, which Minter refers to as "the best week of work I've ever done." Although it draws its inspiration from the arcade game Centipede with the concept of a snake-like enemy descending the screen through a series of obstacles (mushrooms in centipede, pods in Gridrunner) it plays much faster. Versions of the game appeared for several of the home computers of the early 1980s.” ~Wikipedia

Source: Compute Gazette, July 1983 (#01) || The Internet Archive; scanned by Jason Scott