• Rescue On Fractalus! is a space combat simulator video game created by Lucasfilm Games. It was originally released in 1985 for the Atari 8-bit computers...
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  • created by Lucasfilm Games and published in 1985 by Epyx. Along with Rescue on Fractalus!, it was one of the initial pair of releases from Lucasfilm Games...
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  • designer, project leader, and one of the programmers for the games Rescue on Fractalus!, Labyrinth, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and Indiana...
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    Texture filtering became ubiquitous on PCs after the introduction of 3Dfx's Voodoo GPU. In the 1985 game Rescue on Fractalus! for the Atari 8-bit computers...
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    on 2020-10-11. Retrieved 2020-10-11. Reichert, Matt. "Atari 7800 Software – Rescue on Fractalus". www.atariprotos.com. Archived from the original on 2007-11-23...
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    jump scare is the 1985 Lucasfilm game Rescue on Fractalus!, wherein while the player is saving stranded humans on a hostile world, sometimes the supposed...
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    final version. Other notable early examples include the 1985 game Rescue on Fractalus (that used fractals to procedurally create, in real time, the craggy...
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    Atari 7800 (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Rescue on Fractalus! (later canceled), Track & Field, and Xevious. It was a significant technological leap over the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. On July...
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  • of the fractal technology developed for Rescue on Fractalus!, further enhancing it. In The Eidolon, Rescue's fractal mountains were turned upside down...
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  • LucasArts' Rescue on Fractalus! After LucasArts signed a three-game exclusivity deal with Nintendo, Factor 5 was allowed to convert their work on the new...
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  • property. The first products from the Games Group were Ballblazer and Rescue on Fractalus!, developed in 1984 for the Atari 5200 console and Atari 8-bit computers...
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    Inc. Atari, Inc. RealSports Tennis 1983 Atari, Inc. Atari, Inc. Rescue on Fractalus! 1986 Lucasfilm Games Atari Corp. River Raid 1983 Activision Activision...
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  • Koronis Rift (category Video games set on fictional planets)
    The Eidolon. Both enhanced the fractal technology developed for Rescue on Fractalus!. In Koronis Rift, the Atari 8-bit computer's additional colors (over...
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  • ISSN 0890-2143. "H.E.R.O." United States Copyright Office. Archived from the original on June 13, 2024. Retrieved June 13, 2024. "Ghostbusters (Registration Number...
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  • Spectrum 1985 Lucasfilm Games Epyx Activision Atari Corporation Rescue on Fractalus! Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Commodore...
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    Chapter Repton (Sirius Software) Repton (Superior Software) Rescue on Fractalus! Rescue Squad Return of the Mutant Camels Revenge of the Mutant Camels...
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    starring George Clooney. Valkyrie: Appears in the 1985 video game Rescue on Fractalus!. A variant of the (also fictional) F-27 Firedrake, the Valkyrie...
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    Master (Doug Bell), Smash TV (Eugene Jarvis), Starfox (Jez San), Rescue on Fractalus! (David Fox/Charlie Kellner), Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner),...
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    Fractal-generating software (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    rendered in computer games as early as 1984 with the creation of Rescue on Fractalus!. From the early 1980s to about 1995 hundreds of different fractal...
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    Olympic Arena in Hamar, Norway, and lasts for five consecutive days (starting on the Wednesday in Easter each year). Each year, TG attracts more than 5200...
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  • Labyrinth: The Computer Game (category Video games based on films)
    licensed game developed by the company: earlier products, such as Rescue on Fractalus! and The Eidolon, had been original intellectual properties. According...
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    Max Red Moon Reforger '88 Relax Repton (1983 video game) Rescue at Rigel Rescue on Fractalus! The Return of Heracles Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle...
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  • release date are provided where available. The table can be sorted by clicking on the small boxes next to the column headings. A first-person shooter game should...
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  • There is a separate list of Apple IIGS games. There are currently 632 games on this list. Directory:  0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X...
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  • Defenders of Dynatron City 2014 Bad Dreams, writer, artist 1985 Rescue on Fractalus!, animator (LucasArts) 1985 Ballblazer, artist (LucasArts) 1985 The...
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  • article about Rescue on Fractalus! as basis of a memoir thread on Twitter. In 2019, game designer Jeff Minter gave two presentations on Skrolli's stage...
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  • from 4 May 1985. Games featured included Wizard of Wor, Pastfinder, Rescue on Fractalus!, Ghostbusters, Metro-Cross and Dynasty Wars. Published: 7 May to...
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  • Necromancer Action Bill Williams 1988 One-on-One Basketball Sports Sculptured Software 1987 Rescue on Fractalus! First-person shooter Lucasfilm Games 1987...
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  • Imagine Software Rescate en el Golfo 1990 Opera Soft Rescue from Atlantis 1988 Dinamic Rescue on Fractalus! 1986 Activision Return to Doom 1988 Topologika...
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  • Chris Crawford: Eastern Front, Legionnaire Steve DeFrisco David Fox: Rescue on Fractalus! Jon Freeman & Anne Westfall Gary Gilbertson Marc Goodman: The Bilestoad...
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