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• Genre, Similar Games And Market Positioning

  • Genre
  • Similar Games
  • Market Positioning

• Technical profile

• History of the game

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Genre, Similar Games And Market Positioning

Genre

Smash TV is Eugene Jarvis' spiritual successor to Robotron: 2084, an early Arcade game that is one of the first examples of the twin stick control method. Smash TV retains this same gameplay, using the left joystick to move and the right to shoot, allowing a player to move in one direction while firing in another.

Similar games

• Total Carnage, a game that maintained the same control style and applied it to a vertical scrolling world, similar to Ikari Warriors or Mercs. There are plenty of references to Smash TV in Total Carnage.

• NARC is an arcade video game created in 1988 by the American company Williams Electronics, and designed by Eugene Jarvis. It is an action game that can be played by two people simultaneously. The goal is to arrest and kill drug dealers. It was the first arcade video game to incorporate a 32-bit processor.

• Robotron: 2084 is an arcade video game developed by Vid Kidz and published by Williams Electronics in 1982. It is a shooter with two-dimensional graphics. The game is set in the year 2084, in a fictional world where robots have turned against humans.

Market positioning

Smash TV is part of Arcade Party Pak released for the PlayStation in 1999.It is included in the Midway Arcade Treasures collection, which is available for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation 2 and was released in 2003. These versions give the player the option to save high scores.Smash TV is also part of the 2012 compilation Midway Arcade Origins.Smash TV was made available for download through Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service on the Xbox 360 and was the first version of the game to officially allow two players to play the game online.[24] It was delisted from the service in February 2010[25] after the dissolution of Midway Games.

Technical profile

Smash TV was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Game Gear, Master System, and Sega Genesis consoles. Ocean published ports for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, and Amiga

History of the game

Smash TV is a 1990 arcade game created by Eugene Jarvis and Mark Turmell for Williams.[1] It is a dual-stick shooter (one for moving, avoiding enemies and collecting prizes, and the other for firing) in the same vein as 1982's Robotron: 2084 (co-created by Jarvis). The Super NES, Genesis, Master System, and Game Gear versions were titled Super Smash TV.

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