VIRUS GAME

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This article describes the 1988 computer game. Not to be confused with the 1997 PC release, Virus: The Game. For other uses see virus (disambiguation)

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Virus
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European ZX Spectrum cover
Developer(s) David Braben
Publisher(s) Firebird
Designer(s) David Braben
Platform(s) Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, IBM PC Compatible, ZX Spectrum
Release date(s) 1988
Genre(s) Action/Arcade
Mode(s) Single player

Virus is a computer game designed and developed by David Braben, published by British Telecom (under the Firebird name). Virus is a port of the 1987 game Zarch, the flagship game of the Acorn Archimedes computer.

Virus was released in 1988 for Atari ST, Commodore Amiga (both versions coded by David Braben), and IBM PC (coded by Chris Sawyer). It was later ported to the ZX Spectrum by Steven Dunn - an impressive feat considering the inferior processing power and poor graphics of the Spectrum when compared to the Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST and PC.

Virus was one of the first solid 3D games and was also the first to have 3D lighting effects and shadowing, although these are less sophisticated than those of Zarch.
[edit] Sequels and Re-releases

Ten years later in 1998, a sequel, V2000 (also known as Virus 2000), was released on the PC and PlayStation.

More recently, a Windows remake called Z-Virus was created in Blitz BASIC. David Braben's game engine for Virus was also used to create a game called Conqueror - this involved driving a tank over a patchwork landscape. It was coded by Jonathan Griffiths and released on the Archimedes, Atari ST and Amiga. Later still, a game called Zeewolf was released for the Amiga that had a similar look and feel, with the player in control of an armed helicopter - this game did not use any of the original Virus code as it was a separate product.
[edit] Screenshots

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Virus on the Amiga
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Virus on the ZX Spectrum

[edit] External links

* Frontier Developments official site
* Virus at MobyGames
* Information and screenshots at The Bird Sanctuary
* V2000 at the Frontier Developments website
* Virus at World of Spectrum

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Categories: 1988 video games | Atari ST games | Amiga games | DOS games | Video games developed in the United Kingdom | ZX Spectrum games
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