Flag Capture (Video Game)
Flag Capture is an early Atari 2600 game from 1978. It's the first video game example of Capture the Flag, though the mechanics are incomplete - there is only one flag, there are no bases to bring it back to, and there is no fighting.
One or two players wander around a 9x7 grid of squares, and press the fire button to find out what's in that square. It may be the flag, or a hint about where the flag is, or a bomb that sends them back to their starting square.
There are 10 variations:
- Free For All: Both players move in real time.
- Double Two-Player: Players take turns moving and checking a square.
- Double Two-Player with a moving flag that bounces off the edges of the screen.
- Double Two-Player with a moving flag that wraps around the screen.
- Solo Two-Player: Players take turns moving and checking until they find the flag.
- Solo Two-Player, moving flag with wall.
- Solo Two-Player, moving flag with wrap-around.
- Single Player Timed.
- Single Player Timed, moving flag with wall.
- Single Player Timed, moving flag with wrap-around.
Tropes used in Flag Capture (Video Game) include:
- Capture the Flag
- Color-Coded Multiplayer
- The Golden Age of Video Games
- No Plot, No Problem
- Player Versus Player: Games 1-7.
- Scoring Points
- Timed Mission: Games 8-10, 75 seconds.
- Top Down View
- Wrap Around
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