Gamma Goblins (1981)

Apple II

2.33 from 3 ratings

8 members have it in their collection · 4 backlogged · 1 wish listed

A shoot'em up taking place in the circulatory system of a human body where the player has to destroy the infectious gamma goblins. Written by Tony and Benny Ngo and published by Sirius Software for the Apple II computers.

Details

Publishers
Sirius Software
Genres
Arcade, Shooter
Themes
Action, Science fiction

Release dates

  • Dec 31, 1981 (Full Release) (North_America) Apple II

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Review scoopings 3/5 · Feb 2, 2022

Another Spaceship Shoot Em Up... But For the Apple II"!"...

Look: 7/10 Great fonts. Technically good sprites. But at this point?....

Sound: 4/10 Mostly just the annoying beeps and boops that I get ticked about. Why not include a song with it?

Play: 7/10 I had more fun with this than I expected, but for all intensive purposes, this is just another shoot em up.

Feel: 7/10 As much fun …

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Look: 7/10 Great fonts. Technically good sprites. But at this point?....

Sound: 4/10 Mostly just the annoying beeps and boops that I get ticked about. Why not include a song with it?

Play: 7/10 I had more fun with this than I expected, but for all intensive purposes, this is just another shoot em up.

Feel: 7/10 As much fun as I had playing for 10ish minutes, this genre is getting redundant with this formula. What's ironic is, I played this honestly almost 30 minutes, and got further than most games I play, but I dunno--there was just something so mundane about this game. after all these unique gems I've come across in the early microcomputer/console days and "golden age" (questioning that so far tbh) of arcade games. This got a slight boost just because I always like concepts where you go into a body/shrink/etc.

Attachment: 7/10 As much as I respect this, as solid as the gameplay is, and as much as I love the Apple II.... this just isn't it. There's so many other sci-fi themed, also solid, shoot em ups that came and went... and contemporaneous to this game, many more unique shoot em ups, and the roots of action-adventure, budding out. Why spend more time on this? (If you love arcade spaceship shoot em ups, tho, this honestly should be on your list.) Welp, okay, just so that I remember this as an early (if not the first?) videogame based around the concept of shrinking and entering a body... or something akin to that lol.

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