Android Attack

Android Attack is a video game in the action genre developed by Spectral Associates and published by MicroDeal Ltd. originally released in 1983. It is currently playable on Dragon 32/64.

Android Attack is a 32K upgrade of the Berzerk Robot Battle variant for 16K Tandy Colour systems. The extra memory is used to add another feature of the original arcade game, speech, which appears in its Microdeal title, Talking Android Attack.

As in Berzerk, you are a lone humanoid in a large complex with many labyrinthine rooms. Your goal is to survive and score points by exterminating all the hostile robots that inhabit the complex. If you shoot a robot (before it shoots you) you will turn it into a pile of deadly junk, which will reanimate soon after, though not into the android it was before, but into a ghost. Ghosts can walk through walls and attempt to fulfill the mission of their previous life. This is a slight deviation from the original Berzerk, in which the ghost was a separate character called 'Evil Otto'. Another difference is that in this version you can jump and duck to avoid robot bullets.

Another danger in the game is the walls, which are electrified. By sacrificing an energy unit, of which you need at least three, you can open a hole in the wall to pass through. On each screen there is also a crown, which can be collected for 100 points. Killing an android gives you 50 points, and killing its ghost gives you another 100. By eliminating all the enemies, collecting the crown and leaving the room, you get a bonus sum calculated from the remaining time (when it reaches zero, you are killed). For every 10000 points, you gain another unit of energy. If you leave the room without killing the enemies, the computer will tell you in 6-bit wobbly speech: 'Coward!'.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.