Cylon Raiders
By W&W Software Sales (Bob Weber)
1979
Tape 4, Program 1
Bally BASIC, 300-BAUD


Cylon Raiders is a game for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade.

Instructions

Uses hand controller.  You are in a viper and the crosshairs on your scope are moved with the 8 positions of the joystick.  When the Cylon is in the center of your scope you pull the trigger to shoot him down.  One Player.

Archiving Notes:

- These program directions were transcribed from a printout on carbon paper of the instructions for W&W Software Sales, Tapes 1-7.  The seven pages faded by the time the pages were scanned in September of 2021.  This set of instructions can be downloaded here:

https://ballyalley.com/tape_manuals/misc/misc.html#WandWSoftwareSalesTapeInstructions

- Cylon Raiders (1979)(W&W Software Sales)(300 baud) - On November 1, 2021, Adam Trionfo played this game.  After he destroyed a few aliens he was destroyed and the game-screen went black.  There didn't appear to be any way to restart or quite the game (HALT didn't work).  He had to shut the Bally Arcade off and turn it back on again to get back to Bally BASIC.  I'm not sure why this happened or if it's normal behavior for this game.

- Cylon Raiders (mod) (19xx)(W&W Software Sales and unknown author)(300 baud).zip and Cylon Raiders (mod) (19xx)(W&W Software Sales and unknown author)(300 baud)[a].zip - Archived May 31, 2013 by Paul Thacker from tape in Brett Bilbrey's collection. There are several code changes from the published version of Cylon Raiders. The two mods only differ from each other in the first couple of lines.

- Cylon Raiders (1979)(W&W Software Sales)(300 baud)[a] - This was archived from the Paul Zibits collection in August/October 2021 by Paul Thacker.  He notes, "Slightly different version than previously archived program, doesn't include "TEMP CRITICAL" printout."
 
