| Day of the Viper | |
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| Developer(s) | Accolade |
| Publisher(s) | Accolade |
| Designer(s) | John Conley James Oxley |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS |
| Release | 1989 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter, maze |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Day of the Viper is a first-person shooter video game published by Accolade in 1989. As the Viper robot, the player must explore five abandoned hi-tech and heavily guarded buildings in order to find and install floppy disks. The game was compared to 3D Monster Maze.[1][2]
Reception[edit]
The game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #157 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.[3] Zzap!64 noted Day of the Viper as "an incredibly similar game" to Slaygon (1988), which is made by the same developers. Further commenting that "Charging £19.95 for a game that's two years old (and doesn't seem to have been updated) is a bit suspect."[4]
Reviews[edit]
- ST Format - (Jan, 1990)[5]
- Atari ST User - (Apr, 1990)[1]
- The Games Machine - (Apr, 1990)[6]
- ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - (Jan, 1990)[7]
- ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) - (May, 1990)[2]
- ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) - (Nov, 1989)[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Atari ST User (Vol. 5, No. 02) - April - 1990: Atari magazine scans, PDF".
- ^ a b "ACE Magazine Issue 32". May 1990.
- ^ Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (May 1990). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (157): 96–103.
- ^ "Test - Day of the Viper". Zzap!64. No. 60. Newsfield Publications. April 1990. pp. 22–23.
- ^ http://www.stformat.com/stf06/pages_nx1500/stf06_040.jpg [bare URL image file]
- ^ "The Games Machine Issue 29".
- ^ "Aktueller Software Markt (ASM) Magazine (February 1990)". February 1990.
- ^ "ACE Magazine Issue 26". November 1989.
External links[edit]
- Day of the Viper can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive