Eliminator (1981 video game)

Eliminator
Developer(s)Sega/Gremlin
Publisher(s)Sega/Gremlin
Designer(s)Lane Hauck[1]
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
  • JP: December 1981
  • NA: April 7, 1982
Genre(s)Multi-directional shooter
Mode(s)2 player, additional 4 player model

Eliminator is a multi-directional shooter space combat game, created and released by Sega/Gremlin in 1981. Similar to the monochrome Star Castle,[2] Eliminator uses color vector graphics and allows both cooperative and competitive multiplayer gameplay.[3] It is the only four-player vector game ever made.[2]

  1. ^ "San Diego's Gremlin: how video games work". San Diego Reader. 1982-07-15. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  2. ^ a b Mark J. P. Wolf (2008), The video game explosion: a history from PONG to PlayStation and beyond, ABC-CLIO, p. 69, ISBN 978-0-313-33868-7, retrieved 2011-03-28
  3. ^ Eliminator at the Killer List of Videogames