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1985
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1st
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ZX81
Shoot'em Up

Cave Flight

Cave Flight is a side-scrolling shoot'em up game for the ZX81 microcomputer that was released in 1985.

It was created by René Straub as a "listing game", meaning that the game was not released on a physical disk which could be bought in stores, but that the game's code was published in a magazine. Thus, players had to type the game code into their microcomputer by hand before being able to play the game. Listing games were a publication format which allowed developers to release their games without the need for a publisher.

Cave Flight was published in the June/July 1985 issue of the German magazine "Homecomputer". It consists of about 1.5 pages of Sinclair Basic code and was René Staub's first published game.

In the game, the player controls a plane flying through a cave full of diamonds. The object of the game is to collect as many diamonds as possible and beat the high score.

The player has three lives and loses one if he crashes into an obstacle; if all three lives are lost, the game is over. The player can then enter their name in a new high score, if they beat the current one.

Cave Flight is one of only a handful of Swiss listed games in the CH-Ludens Archive. Only selected and awarded listing games were published by the computer magazines in the 1980s. If your listing game did not get an award, it was only known to the friends you showed it and may have been lost. One of the other few known listing game is "Jagdszene Chicago" for the Texas TI99 computer.

INFORMATION

YEAR
1985
Edition
1st
ComPUTER SYSTEM
ZX81
GENRE
Shoot'em Up
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Booklet image: Beat Suter

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