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Crossbow 1983 Exidy

1983

Crossbow (c) 1983 Exidy.
Early first-person shoot'em up game with a dungeons and dragons feel about it. Features good speech and screams.

>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Exidy 440 hardware
Main CPU : M6809 (@ 1.6224 Mhz)
Sound CPU : M6809 (@ 811.2 Khz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 50.7 Khz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256
Players : 1
Control : lightgun
Buttons : 1

>>> TRIVIA
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Released in October 1983. Crossbow is the first of Exidy's classic shoot'em up. It was also the first video game in history to completely use digitized sound and music.
Donn Nauert holds the official record for this game with 19,885,500 points on July 18, 1984.

>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Designed and programmed by : Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, Ken Nicholson

>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Consoles :
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Atari XEGS

>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.
Machine's picture.

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