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Gorf is an arcade game, released in 1981 by Midway. It is a multiple-mission fixed shooter; essentially it is five different games in one. The player controls a slow-moving spaceship which can move left and right, and to a limited extent up and down. The spaceship, which looks similar to the Starship Enterprise, is armed with a single upward-firing weapon, a quark laser. There are five different missions, and if all five are completed the game loops back to the first mission again, with the difficulty level increased and increase in rank. The player starts out as a lowly Space Cadet, and advances from there to Space Captain, then to Space Colonel, Space General, Space Warrior, and finally to Space Avenger.

The game continues until the player loses all their lives. The game was commonly set to offer only two lives per coin (most games offered three) but was among the first videogames in which the number of lives could be doubled by adding another coin.

Gorf, which if spelled backwards is Frog, features several digitized voice samples which are used for the attract mode and during gameplay:

"Try again! I devour coins!"
"Ha ha ha ha!" (How's that? A machine heckling YOU!)
"Prepare for annihilation!"
"All hail the supreme Gorfian Empire!"
"LONG LIVE GORF!"
"Coin detected in pocket!"
"Some galatic defender you are!"

Other than being "Frog" backwards, GORF is actually an acronym for "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force" according to an early flyer.

Only the game logic and RAM/ROM boards are specific to Gorf. The pattern board, cpu board, and RAM boards can be swapped out with other similar games, such as Wizard Of Wor.

Missions

Mission 1: Astro Battles

The first mission is more or less a straight clone of Space Invaders
, set against a sky-blue background. The player is protected by a glittering parabolic forcefield, which is gradually worn away by enemy projectiles. The forcefield apparently works in both directions, and therefore it must momentarily deactivate in order for the player's ship to fire out. To advance to the next mission, the player must destroy all the invaders.

Mission 3: Galaxians

This mission is a clone of Galaxian
. The player is faced with a swarm of galaxians, which continually divebomb and shower the player with deadly projectiles. To advance to the next mission, the player must destroy all the galaxians.
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Video games - Gorf

Missions

Mission 1: Astro Battles

Mission 3: Galaxians

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