Name: Attack of the Mutant Camels
Platform: Atari 5200
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: 5200 Joystick
Genre: Shoot 'em Up - Side-Scrolling
Gametype: Conversion
Release Year: 1983
Developer: Llamasoft
Publisher: HesWare
Players: 1 or 2 Alternating
Hacked by: Classics
Programmer: Lenard J.
Designer: Jeff Minter
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Minter is revered for his irreverence and this game is a true testament to why this is so. AMC plays a bit like the Parker Bros "The Empire Strikes Back" game, though your ship is now attempting to stop the slowly advancing giant mutant camels instead. Super smooth and still loads of fun to play. Rock on, Llamasoft

http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=5838

Attack of the Mutant Camels is the sequel to Gridrunner. In this Centipede style game you play a retired captain of a starship, one of those who had won the previous war against aliens. You come out of retirement because the aliens are back, tougher than ever. Thus a second gridwar begins.

You pilot your ship and shoot at chains of pods coming at you. As you hit the pods, they break into smaller independent chains. The aliens seem to have a sense of humor, though. Each pod in the chain coming at you looks like a...camel. Flying camels from outer space.

As you start shooting the camels, you are attacked by guns from the bottom of the screen and from the left side of the screen. Even worse, a human traitor has joined the aliens, and when he appears on the screen, running across the grid on top, the guns get very accurate at shooting you. Luckily you can shoot traitors.

Other twists include deflectors, which turn your bullets and even ricochet them back at you. The enemy fires back too. And as you advance in level, the enemy changes the direction of their attack.


http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/matrix-gridrunner-2
