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Kiloblaster
Sign in to saveKiloblaster is a fixed shooter video game trilogy written by Allen Pilgrim and published by Epic MegaGames in 1992 for IBM PC compatibles. Based on Namco's Galaxian from 1979, there are a few differences such as allowing greater player movement (horizontally and vertically), much faster enemy movement, power-ups, enemies that take more than one hit, and allies to assist in battle.
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Vinony's link graph records 87 inbound references to Kiloblaster, and connects out to Unreal Engine, Epic Games and North America.
It is catalogued under topics including 1992 video games, Commercial video games with freely available source code and DOS games.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Game details · IGDB
New-age Galaxian. Move along in space in your fighter and shoot anything that moves, while collecting power-ups.
- Released
- 1992
- Genres
- Arcade
- Platforms
- DOS
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Epic MegaGames
- Publisher
- Epic MegaGames
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Genre
- shoot 'em up
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Epic Games
- Developer
- Epic Games
- Platform
- DOS
- Game mode
- single-player video game
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- publication date
- 1992-01-01
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Plot
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- External links
Kiloblaster is a fixed shooter video game trilogy written by Allen Pilgrim and published by Epic MegaGames in 1992 for IBM PC compatibles. Based on Namco's Galaxian from 1979, there are a few differences such as allowing greater player movement (horizontally and vertically), much faster enemy movement, power-ups, enemies that take more than one hit, and allies to assist in battle.
Allen Pilgrim declared the registered version freeware and released also the source code on August 4, 2008. Following that, ports with SDL to new platforms and mobile devices like the Pandora were created.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiloblaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.