Pioneer Plague
Developer(s)Bill Williams[1]
Publisher(s)Terrific Software
Mandarin Software
Platform(s)Amiga
Release1988
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player

Pioneer Plague is a game designed by Bill Williams for the Amiga computer[1] and published in 1988 by Mandarin Software and Terrific Software. It is one of the few games to use the Hold-And-Modify display mode of the Amiga for in-game graphics, a mode which allows thousands of colors to be displayed at once, but in a format that's better suited to static images than moving objects.[2] It may have been the first commercial game to use Hold-And-Modify. Pioneer Plague was not ported to other systems.

Williams also wrote the 1986 Amiga game Mind Walker.[1]

Reception

Pioneer Plague received an 88% from Amiga Computing and 86% from Zzap!64.[3] British magazine Computer and Video Games was less enthusiastic with an overall score of 39%, commending the graphics but criticizing playability.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. ↑ "Amiga Hold and Modify". AmigaOS 3.5 Developer Docs.
  3. ↑ "Pioneer Plague Reviews". Amiga Magazine Rack.
  4. ↑ Dillon, Tony (February 1989). "Pioneer Plague". Computer and Video Games (88).


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