L.A. SWAT/Panther (C64 and Atari 8-Bit, 5 1/4" Disk) Mastertronic - 1988 USA, Canada Release

L.A. SWAT/Panther
Title	L.A. SWAT/Panther
Product ID	52145-20069
Product UPC	052145200692
Platform(s)	C64 and Atari 8-Bit
Packaging	Retail Box
Media	5 1/4" Disk
Publisher(s)	Mastertronic
Category(s)	Entertainment, Arcade

Description from the packaging.

L.A. SWAT

Los Angeles 1999.
Special assignments. Get your squad together. A terrorist group has taken over the west side of L.A.. Get in there and clear the streets. Bring out hostages you find- alive this time.

Playing the game.
The aim is to save the hostages being held by the gangs. To reach them steer your squad through the streets, trying to avoid the grenades being lobbed at your team leader. Try to anticipate where they will land and move him away. Everything keys off the leader. Gang members will go for him, snipers take pot shots at him and the grenades always fall his way! Once he gets taken out another team member will take over.

Keep going forward and don't let the bad guys get behind you. They have a particularly nasty way of neutralizing SWAT teams if they get too close...

Controls.
Steer the team leader with the joystick. Press fire to shoot in the direction the joystick is taking you. Fire will also restart the game once you've lost the entire team.

Panther

You take the part of the one remaining pilot in the federal force under attack in the city of Xenon. The alien invaders have swept away the defenses and all the population has been evacuated. Well, nearly all of it. There are still people in the city who must be brought out to the spaceport and safety. So all you have to do is fly through the city and pick them up, avoiding the enemy who have reached the city suburbs.

Those left behind are hiding in bunkers either in the city or the surrounding areas. The spaceport is on the other side of the city from you, so in order to rescue the refugees you must land close to the bunkers as they appear in the screen, stay around until all the refugees have made it into your ship- whatever the aliens are doing to stop you- then move on as quickly as possible.

As the only poor sucker who can fly a panther ground attack craft- you're hero for today.

System Requirements

Atari 8-Bit
Required RAM	48K
Requires Joystick	Yes

C64
Required RAM	64K
Requires Joystick	Yes

Links

• Atarimania
• L.A. SWAT: Mobygames
• Panther: Mobygames
• L.A. SWAT: Lemon64
• Panther: Lemon64