Gorf

This article is about the arcade game. For the comic book creator and cartoonist nicknamed "Gorf", see Jordan B. Gorfinkel.
Gorf
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Midway
Roklan Corporation
(Atari 8-bit/5200)
CBS Electronics (2600)
Nuvatec (ColecoVision)
Publisher(s)
  • Atari 8-bit
    • NA: Roklan
    2600
    • NA/EU: CBS Electronics
    VIC-20
    5200
    • NA: CBS Electronics
    BBC Micro
    • EU: Doctorsoft
    ColecoVision
    C64
    • NA: Commodore
Designer(s)Jamie Fenton
Platform(s)
Release
February 1981
  • Arcade
    Atari 8-bit
    2600, VIC-20
    • WW: 1982
    5200, C64
    BBC Micro
    ColecoVision
    • WW: 1983
Genre(s)Fixed shooter
Mode(s)
Arcade systemAstrocade[1]

Gorf is an arcade video game released in 1981 by Midway Manufacturing, whose name was advertised as an acronym for "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force". It is a fixed shooter with 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 the Votrax speech chip.[3] 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 the Japanese developer Namco owns the rights to the franchise.

  1. ^ a b "Gorf [Model 873]". arcade-history.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  2. ^ "Atari 400 800 XL XE - Gorf". atarimania.com. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  3. ^ GameSpy Staff (February 25, 2011). "GameSpy's Top 50 Arcade Games of All-Time (Page 3)". GameSpy. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016. Retrieved October 1, 2016.