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Context VideoGame / MoonPatrol

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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moon_patrol.png]]
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3	->''"Your Mission is to patrol Sector Nine and eliminate all hostile threats to you and your Moon Rover"''
4	-->-- Excerpt from the manual of the Game Boy Color port.
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6	''Moon Patrol'' is an UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Creator/{{Irem}} released in 1982 that was licensed to [[Creator/WilliamsElectronics Williams]] for distribution in North America. It was also ported to various consoles and home computers by Creator/{{Atari}} and Creator/MidwayGames.
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8	In the game you control a moon buggy that must travel between checkpoints on the moon's surface while avoiding crashing into rocks and mines, falling into craters, and being destroyed by [=UFOs=] and tanks firing shots at you.
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10	An arcade-exclusive SpiritualSuccessor, ''Horizon'', was released by Irem in 1985.
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12	!!This game provides examples of
13	* CheckPoint: Twenty-six of them, labeled A through Z. You earn time bonuses for reaching certain checkpoints (E, J, O, T, and Z) within a certain amount of time. The Atari 2600 version replaces them with small x's, though they work the same (and were marked by letters in some prototypes).
14	* EndlessGame: The game loops the last level indefinitely until you run out of buggies.
15	* EveryCarIsAPinto: Your buggy takes any kind of damage? It explodes. Watch your surroundings!
16	* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: There are no PowerUps or helps of any kind. If it's not flat land, it will kill you. Some of the [=UFOs=] even have special bombs that make additional craters in the surface, just to dick with you while you're fighting them.
17	* GameMod: The unreleased Platform/{{ColecoVision}} prototype version was suspected to be modded into ''Matt Patrol'', where some of the [=UFOs=] were modded into Music/{{Devo}} hats and flying bras.
18	* OneHitPointWonder: Your buggy is... not robust. Even rolling over a tiny rock is instant death.
19	* MotionParallax: This is the UrExample of the trope's use in 2D video games. There is only one parallax --the far background made of bluish rocky formations-- that runs at a different speed than the brown-and-green foreground where the moon buggy is.
20	* ScoringPoints: For shooting down [=UFOs=], tanks, cars, and rocks; for jumping over craters, rocks, land mines, and tanks; and for reaching certain checkpoints (as explained above). Bonus points are awarded for reaching those checkpoints fast enough.
21	* ShootEmUp
22	* SideView

Context VideoGame / MoonPatrol