River Raid

River Raid is a world from 1982 published by the game manufacturer Activision video game. In Germany the game achieved mainly because of its indexing as glorifies violence game special popularity. The game was programmed by Carol Shaw, who had previously worked for Atari. River Raid was initially released for the Atari 2600 game console, released some time later ported to several other former consoles and home computer models.

Game action

The player controls a plan view of an aircraft over a river and tries to achieve the greatest possible number of points by shooting enemy missiles and ships. It must be refilled by the overflight of Auftankpunkten spent fuel. Collisions with opponents and riverbank lead to the immediate deletion of own aircraft. Are all aircraft available to be lost, the game ends.

Indexing in Germany

In the grounds of the decision of the indexing BPjS of 19 December 1984 stated inter alia: "Young people are to empathize with the role of an uncompromising fighter and destroyer [ ... ]. Here you will find childhood a paramilitary training instead of [ ... ]. In older adolescents finish recording [ ... ] to physical tension, anger, aggressiveness, restlessness in the mind [ ... ] and headache leads. "

More information

1988, a second part was published: River Raid II, which was programmed by David Lubar. The sequel, however, was more difficult to play with a similar game idea and offered the players different background landscapes. He is no longer as well known as the original game, probably because it was published at a time when the game console Atari 2600 was not as successful on the market. The game was never ported to another platform.

Activision published in 2002 with the Activision Anthology is a compilation of video game classics for the PlayStation 2 Due to the still effective indexing of the game River Raid would also like the Anthology under this regulation. Only at the manufacturer's request, the game was removed from the index, and the games was now classified by the ESRB as " Without age restrictions ".