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Starhawk (1979 video game)

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32: 101: 345:, appear on the horizon of the trench and the player has to shoot them before they destroy the player's ship. The player is given initially sixty seconds, but additional twenty seconds is awarded for every 10,000 points scored. The player continues flying down the trench towards a target similar to the 333:
According to the Vectrex manual, the story involves "protecting your comrades from alien ships trying to infiltrate your culture" and "defending the sovereignty of your planet".
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target. The game gets progressively more difficult as the player advances. Similar to the flying saucer from
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Besides the firing button, there are three buttons that control the speed of the crosshairs.
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trench run, one of the first arcade games to blatantly use concepts from
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placed inside of it, to prevent it from tipping onto the player.
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Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005)
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Developer(s)
Cinematronics
Publisher(s)
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JP
Sega
Designer(s)
Tim Skelly
Platform(s)
Arcade
Vectrex
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JP
NA
Genre(s)
Rail shooter
Arcade system
MHz
vector
arcade game
Tim Skelly
Cinematronics
shoot 'em up

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