Axis Assassin

Axis Assassin
Original "album cover" box
Developer(s)Electronic Arts
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)John Field[1]
Platform(s)Apple II,[2] Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64
Release1983
Genre(s)Tube shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Axis Assassin is a video game written by John Field for the Apple II and published by Electronic Arts in 1983.[1] Ports for Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 were released alongside the Apple II original. The game is similar in concept and visuals to Atari, Inc.'s 1981 Tempest arcade video game.

Along with M.U.L.E., Hard Hat Mack, Archon: The Light and the Dark, and Worms?, Axis Assassin is one of the five initial games from Electronic Arts.[3] Programmer John Field is included in the two-page "We See Farther" magazine ad from 1983 that positioned EA's game developers as "rock stars."[4] Field also wrote The Last Gladiator for Electronic Arts, which was published the same year as Axis Assassin.[1]

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