Convoy Raider

Convoy Raider is a video game in the action genre and published by Gremlin Graphics Software Limited originally released in 1987. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC.

Your country is at war and as the captain of a battleship you must patrol an inland sea to find and destroy planes, missiles, ships and submarines. The main game screen offers you several options, including three radars, a map screen, a status screen and three types of mini-game icons. The three radars are used to track aircraft, ships or submarines and are represented by a white dot when they are within range.

The map screen has two maps, one of the entire area and another showing a closer view of your location. On this screen you can control the speed of your ship and steer it with black dots showing enemy forces. The status screen shows a profile of your ship and any damage is shown in red and if the whole ship is red then it is damaged and the game is over.

When an attack is imminent, an indicator next to one of the mini-game icons turns yellow before turning red and you can play that game. If a plane is attacking then the game has you control a gun to shoot down planes seen from a first person perspective. You can move the gun left or right and move it up or down to hit the planes before they drop bombs on your ship. This screen is also used for any missile attack.

If any convoy of ships is attacking, then you must fire a missile at the convoy by first lining up a sight that keeps moving while a timer counts down. When the time reaches zero and the sight turns red, the missile will hit a ship, but if it does not turn red, you have missed.

The end game is when a submarine is attacking and the game switches to a 3D side view showing above and below the water. You control a helicopter above the water while the submarine is below. You can move the helicopter left or right, and in and out of the screen. A cursor on the left of the screen moves up and down, and when the fire button is pressed a depth charge is launched which also stops the cursor and shows the depth at which the depth charge will explode.

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