Colony 7

Colony 7
Colony 7
	Flier promoting the "extended weaponry" feature
Developer(s)	Taito of America
Publisher(s)	Taito of America
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release	NA: 1981;
Genre(s)	Shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	Single-player

Colony 7 is an arcade shoot 'em up developed and published by Taito's American division in 1981. It contains elements of both Space Invaders (developed by Taito of Japan) and Atari, Inc.'s Missile Command. Colony 7 was the inspiration for the successful Atari 2600 game Atlantis from Imagic.^[1]^[2]

The main innovation of Colony 7 was its extended weaponry arsenal.^{[citation needed]} This gave the player the choice to change between several different weapons, with each one needing to be purchased separately as microtransactions through the arcade coin slot.

The game was re-released as part of Taito Legends.

References

^ "Arcade Legends: Space Invaders manual" (PDF).
^ "A Look at Arcade Ports on Retro Consoles Today". Arcade Heroes. 2008-02-23.

External links

Colony 7 at MobyGames
Colony 7 at the Killer List of Videogames
Colony 7 can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive

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[1] "Arcade Legends: Space Invaders manual" (PDF).

[2] "A Look at Arcade Ports on Retro Consoles Today". Arcade Heroes. 2008-02-23.

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