A.E.

A.E.

Available on:

MSX
Atari8bit
vic-20
Apple][

Genres

Shooter, Arcade

Developers

Compile, Programmers-3

Release Date

December 30, 1982 (43 years ago)

Publishers

Brøderbund Software, Comptiq, Toshiba-EMI

Content Rating

N/A

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Summary

A.E. is an arcade style shooting game in which you have to shoot down waves of evil flying mechanical stingrays in order to save your planet.

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