Gorf
Console: | Arcade |
TV Standard: | NTSC-U |
Country: | United States of America |
Developer(s): | Dave Nutting Associates |
Publisher(s): | Midway Manufacturing |
Release Date: | 1981-02-01 |
Players: | 2 |
Co-op: | No |
ESRB: | E - Everyone |
Type: | Action, Shooter |
With its title doubling as an acronym for "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force," Midway's top-down space shooter undoubtedly has one of the silliest names in arcade history. Released in 1981, Gorf immediately grabbed players by talking to them in a terrifyingly eerie robotic voice, via the cutting-edge Votrax speech chip -- one of the first uses of synthesized speech in a game. Once they were in, players found themselves shooting up alien hordes across five distinctly different stages, several of which were well-made clones of popular arcade titles like Galaxian and Space Invaders. It may not have been entirely original (fun licensing fact: It was initially developed to be a Star Trek game), but that didn't make Gorf any less fun.
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