Menace

aka: Draconia
Moby ID: 183
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Description

Six ruthless dictators have collaborated to create the planet Draconia, which contains some of the most gruesome and harmful life-forms imaginable, all indulging in some rather unsavoury actions. Thus, you must go in your spaceship to destroy them all.

The game is a side-scrolling R-Type-influenced shoot 'em up consisting of six visually-diverse levels. Waves of enemies come towards you to be shot, and reveal tokens, which when shot at will cycle through several available weapons. These include lasers, cannons, improved ship power and a shield.

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  • חיים או מוות - Hebrew spelling

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Average score: 75% (based on 13 ratings)

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DOS port a bit half-arsed and even the Atari ST port Andrew Fisher (700) Mar 28, 2023
Nostalgic Memories Trekster (29) Mar 26, 2023

Trivia

Cancelled port

Harlequin Software was preparing an Atari 8-bit conversion in 1990, but serious illness to the programmer prevented it from being completed.

Development

Originally, the levels in Draconia had names such as "Irem Battlestation", "Konamian Graveyard" and "Jungles of Capcom", in reference to the famous coin-op shoot'em'up makers. This was changed at the last minute, along with the title of the game, but not before the July 1988 issue of Commodore User had managed to review it.

Information also contributed by Martin Smith.

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Contributors to this Entry

Game added by Tomer Gabel.

Amiga added by EboMike. Atari ST, Commodore 64 added by Servo.

Additional contributors: Martin Smith, Игги Друге, Crawly, Patrick Bregger.

Game added August 5, 1999. Last modified January 23, 2024.