Dropzone

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Dropzone Game No. 15 Developer Archer MacLean Company Arena Graphics Publisher U.S. Gold Musician HVSC-File Release 1984 Plattform {{{Plattform}}} Genre Shoot'em up Gamemode 1P only Operation Media Language Information

Contents 1 Voting 2 Description 3 Design 4 Hints 5 Solution 6 Cheats 7 Critics 8 Miscellaneous 9 Highscore 10 Links

[edit] Voting

Voting of the C64-Wiki users (10=the best vote):
7.56 points at 16 votes (rank 131). You need to be logged in to cast a vote.
C64Games	7	16. April 2007 - 2359 downs
C64.com	7	16. April 2007 - 1399 downs
Lemon64	7,7	16. April 2007 - 67 votes

[edit] Description

Dropzone ist a Defender-Clone. You have to shoot a lot of aliens and bring your own men back to the base. A difference is, that the hostile ships do not try to hijack the people spreading around, but rather drop killer androids. Furthermore there is a Cloak-mode for the own man, which makes it invulnerable, as long as the energy lasts.

[edit] Design

Scrolling and animation of the own character are very fluent. The game speed is very high. The explosion of the character is virtual identical with the one in Wizball. In the lower part of the screen there is a big radar. There is no music, but very good sound effects.

[edit] Hints

• The collision query is not very exact.
• As the most elements of the game are seemingly put into practise through signs and not sprites, some effects often overlap the enemy, so the game can get confusing.

[edit] Solution

[edit] Cheats

[edit] Critics

1570: "Not very easy, but a nice shooter for in between. Probably was a real smash at that time ;-)."

[edit] Miscellaneous

Cover

[edit] Highscore

[edit] Links

Websites

• C64Games.de - Game No. 48
• Lemon64 - Game No. 786
• Gamebase64.com - Game No. 2362
• C64.com - Game No. 342
• Zzap64-Review
• Making of Dropzone
• Test Report No. 894 on