Moon Cresta (1980)
- Developer
- Nichibutsu
- Publisher
- Incentive Software, Sega, Taito, Centuri, HAMSTER
- Platforms
- Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System, Dragon 32/64, PlayStation 3, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Wii, PlayStation
- Genres
- Shooter, Arcade
- Rating
- 3.4 of 5, 10 player ratings
How it feels
A brisk, no-frills space shooter where you blast waves of enemies and chase high scores in the timeless arcade tradition.
retrofast-pacedchallengingclassic arcadecompetitivestraightforwardscore-chasingtwitchy
About
Moon Cresta is an arcade game released in 1980 by Nichibutsu. A moving starfield gives the impression of vertical scrolling, but the game is a fixed shooter in the vein of Namco's Galaxian. Incentive Software published a version of this arcade game for many 8-bit home computers of the time. Dempa also released a port of both Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta for the X68000. It was also released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on March 9, 2010 and PlayStation 4 (Arcade Archives) in 2014.
Screenshots
More games like this
- Arcade Archives: Moon Cresta (2014)
- Arcade Archives: Terra Cresta (2014)
- Moon Alien Part 2 (1980)
- Terra Cresta (1986)
- Moon Quasar (1980)
- Arcade Archives: Moon Shuttle (2024)
- Console Archives: Terra Cresta (2026)
- Terra Cresta 3D (1997)
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- Terra Cresta (1986)
- UFO Robo Dangar (1986)
- Rolling Crash (1979)
- F1 Circus (1990)
- Formation Armed F (1990)
- Soldier Girl Amazon (1986)
- F1 Circus Special: Pole to Win (1992)
- Radical Radial (1982)
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