Gorgon (video game)

Gorgon
Screenshot from the Apple II
Developer(s)	Sirius Software, Inc.
Publisher(s)	Sirius Software, Inc.
Designer(s)	Nasir Gebelli
Platform(s)	Apple II
Release date(s)	1981
Genre(s)	Horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gorgon is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up Apple II computer game released in 1981 developed by Sirius Software, Inc.^[1] Gorgon is an early monochrome clone of the arcade game Defender. It was written in the E-Z Draw assembly language by Nasir Gebelli.

In Gorgon, the player flies a spaceship across a side-scrolling landscape while protecting civilians on the ground from aliens that drop down from the top of the screen to try to carry them off.^[1]

There was also a version of this game for the PC around the same time period, though it is apparently a rare item today.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gorgon at MobyGames