Phantom Slayer

Phantom Slayer was a computer game released by Med Systems in 1982 for the TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32/64. Written by Ken Kalish, Phantom Slayer was one of the forerunners of the modern First-person shooter genre.

The player moves around a randomly-generated maze, attempting to kill the eponymous phantoms by shooting them. As each level is cleared, a new maze is created, and the phantoms became harder (requiring more shots) to kill.

The game combined a relatively sedate pace and a then-rare first-person point of view (using simple fixed-perspective graphics) to produce high levels of dramatic tension for a game on such primitive hardware.

External Links

Phantom Slayer - Fan site, includes more screen shots and a (legal) download of the game binary, for use with emulators.

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See also: Phantom Slayer, 1982, Computer and video games, Computer game, Dragon 32/64, Emulator, First-person shooter, Ken Kalish, TRS-80 Color Computer