Pioneer Plague

Pioneer Plague is a game designed by Bill Williams for the Amiga computer[1] and published in 1988 by Mandarin Software and Terrific Software. It is one of the few games to use the Hold-And-Modify display mode of the Amiga for in-game graphics, a mode which allows thousands of colors to be displayed at once, but in a format that's better suited to static images than moving objects.[2] It may have been the first commercial game to use Hold-And-Modify. Pioneer Plague was not ported to other systems.

Not to be confused with Pioneer plaque.
Pioneer Plague
Publisher(s)Terrific Software
Mandarin Software
Designer(s)Bill Williams[1]
Platform(s)Amiga
Release1988
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player

Williams also wrote the 1986 Amiga game Mind Walker.[1]

Reception

Pioneer Plague received an 88% from Amiga Computing and 86% from Zzap!64.[3] British magazine Computer and Video Games was less enthusiastic with an overall score of 39%, commending the graphics but criticizing playability.[4]

References
  1. Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. "Amiga Hold and Modify". AmigaOS 3.5 Developer Docs.
  3. "Pioneer Plague Reviews". Amiga Magazine Rack.
  4. Dillon, Tony (February 1989). "Pioneer Plague". Computer and Video Games (88).


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