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Gorf is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed by Dave Nutting Associates and published by Midway Manufacturing for arcades. It features five distinct levels, the first of which is based on Space Invaders and another on Galaxian. The game makes use of synthesized speech for the Gorfian robot which taunts the player, powered by a speech chip. Gorf allows the player to buy two additional lives per quarter before starting the game, for a maximum of seven lives.

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Released
1981-01-01
User rating
0.00 / 5
Platforms
Commodore / Amiga, Atari 5200, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit

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Gorf actually consists in the Arcade version of five different types of space shooters. The first one ist basically is a Space Invaders clone. In the second one a formation of space ships is hovering at the top of the screen while single space ships will disengage from the formation and dive down at you. The third variant is a Glaxian clone and only available in the Arcade version. In the fourth mini-game the enemy will come out of a circular hyperspace field and attack you. After having destroyed four of your attackers the game proceeds to the fifth game stage. Here a huge mothership is dr…

Released
1981
Genres
Shooter
Platforms
Commodore VIC-20, ColecoVision, Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System, Atari 2600, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari Jaguar
Game modes
Single player, Multiplayer
Developer
Dave Nutting Associates
Publisher
3D Stooges Software, Doctorsoft, Coleco, Handic Software, Midway Manufacturing

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Video game.title
Gorf
Video game.image
Gorf flyer.png
Video game.caption
Arcade flyer
Video game.developer
Dave Nutting Associates
Video game.designer
Jamie Fenton
Video game.platforms
Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, BBC Micro, ColecoVision, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, VIC-20
Video game.genre
Fixed shooter
Video game.modes
Single-player, multiplayer

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Gorf
publication date
1981-01-01
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  • Development
  • Background and pre-production
  • Level design
  • Release
  • Ports
  • Reception
  • Ports
  • Retrospective
  • Legacy
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Gorf is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed by Dave Nutting Associates and published by Midway Manufacturing for arcades. It features five distinct levels, the first of which is based on Space Invaders and another on Galaxian. The game makes use of synthesized speech for the Gorfian robot which taunts the player, powered by a speech chip. Gorf allows the player to buy two additional lives per quarter before starting the game, for a maximum of seven lives.

The home ports omit the Galaxians stage because Japanese developer Namco (now Bandai Namco Entertainment) owns the rights to the Galaxian franchise.

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