- Release Date: 1977
- Genre: Shooter
- Style: Fixed Screen Shooter
Game Description
Safari is a fixed-screen shooter in which the player controls a pith-helmeted jungle hunter, armed with a rifle. The hunter has unlimited ammo but can fire only one bullet through the air at a time. The character is fairly large, approximately one fifth of the screen tall, and he can move in any direction, though fairly slowly. The running lions and charging rhinoceroses that are the hunter's prey are of a slightly smaller scale. They move much faster than the hunter, horizontally across the screen. A thick, vertical white line stands in the middle of the screen, like a tree trunk, providing some cover for the animals. The hunter can see and move through the white line, but his shots do not pass through it. Large, slow-moving snakes and small, high-flying birds move through the scene from time to time, as well. The hunter can only move about three-quarters from the top of the screen, so shooting a swooping bird from the sky requires luck and good timing. A single credit buys 90 seconds of hunting time in the jungle. The goal is to shoot as many animals and earn as many points as possible, before time runs out. If any of the animals touch the hunter, they knock him down, costing precious seconds.~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide
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