Astro Chase 3D MAC CD extremely fast pilot space ship alien combat shooter game! Type: Game Platform: Mac Publisher: First Star Released: 1995 Media: CD Astro Chase® 3D™ was released in March, 1994, for color Macintosh computers by First Star’s licensee, MacPlay, a division of Interplay Productions, Inc..Astro Chase 3D is an extremely fast, space-combat action game featuring spectacular photo-realistic 3D graphics simulating travel in true, three dimensional space. Astro Chase 3D contains 40 levels of play, digitized speech and Single Thrust Propulsion™, a proprietary interface which lets the player steer a flying saucer in one direction while simultaneously shooting in his/her choice of the same or any other direction. Astro Chase 3D was developed by First Star Software, Inc. using the Software Accelerated Graphics Engine™ (S.A.G.E.™) which enables extremely fast, real-time manipulation, scaling and rotation of bit mapped graphics. S.A.G.E. permits the emulation of hardware sprites which are common in videogame systems but which are not available on either the Macintosh or PC platforms.Astro Chase 3D™ is based on First Star’s very first game, Astro Chase® , published by First Star in 1982 for the Atari 4/800 and C-64. The game was created by Fernando Herrera, winner of Atari’s first ever, STAR AWARD, thus our company’s name. Soon after its release it was clear that Astro Chase was a certified hit and the Atari 4/800 and 5200 cartridge rights, as well as the Colecovision rights, were snatched up by Parker Brothers for $250,000. For Mac (Power Macintosh: OS 9 or Below) [*Please review compatibility/platform sections in 'What You Get']
