Moon Patrol

Moon Patrol
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)Irem
Publisher(s)Arcade Ports
Atari, Inc.
Atarisoft
Designer(s)Takashi Nishiyama[4]
Platform(s)Arcade, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM PC, MSX, TI-99/4A, VIC-20
Release
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)1-2 players alternating
Arcade systemIrem M-52 hardware

Moon Patrol (ムーンパトロール, Mūn Patorōru) is a 1982 arcade video game developed and released by Irem. It was licensed to Williams for distribution in North America.[5] The player controls a Moon buggy which can jump over and shoot obstacles on a horizontally scrolling landscape as well as shoot aerial attackers. Designed by Takashi Nishiyama, Moon Patrol is often credited with the introduction of full parallax scrolling in side-scrolling games. Cabinet art for the Williams version was done by Larry Day. Most of the home ports were from Atari, Inc., sometimes under the Atarisoft label.

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  2. ^ "Moon Patrol (Registration Number PA0000142440)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
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