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Abuse (video game)
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Abuse
Developer(s)
Crack dot Com
Exakt Entertainment (iOS)
Publisher(s)
MS-DOS
NA Electronic Arts
EU Origin Systems
Mac OS
Bungie
Platform(s)
MS-DOS, Mac OS,Acorn Archimedes, AmigaOS,AmigaOS 4, iOS, Linux
Release date(s)
MS-DOS
NA February 29, 1996
EU 1996
Mac OS
NA March 5, 1997
Amiga
EU 1998 iOS August 13, 2009
Linux
October 11, 2011
Genre(s)
Run and gun
Mode(s)
Single-player, multiplayer
Distribution
CD-ROM, download
Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com and published byElectronic Arts in North America and Origin Systems in Europe. It was released on February 29, 1996 for MS-DOS. A Mac OS port of the game was published by Bungieand released on March 5, 1997. In 2009 it was ported to AmigaOS 4.[1] It has also been ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. The game's source code, along with some of the Shareware content, has been in the public domain since the late 1990s. It has also been ported to Linux as a freeware.
Contents
[hide]
1 Plot
2 Gameplay
2.1 Active zone
3 Distribution methods and later developments
4 Development
5 References
6 External links
Plot[edit]
The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been unjustly incarcerated in a prison where the staff are performing unethical medical experiments upon the inmates. A prison riot occurs and an experiment goes horribly wrong. The people inside the prison - except for Nick, who seems to be immune - get infected with a substance called Abuse that transforms them into monsters. With the water supply in danger of being infected, Nick arms himself and fights through the horde to prevent this, and then escapes from the prison complex.
Gameplay[edit]
Abuse resembles a side-scrolling platform game. The game is notable for its (at the time) unusual control scheme: The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Abuse (game))
Abuse
Developer(s)
Crack dot Com
Exakt Entertainment (iOS)
Publisher(s)
MS-DOS
NA Electronic Arts
EU Origin Systems
Mac OS
Bungie
Platform(s)
MS-DOS, Mac OS,Acorn Archimedes, AmigaOS,AmigaOS 4, iOS, Linux
Release date(s)
MS-DOS
NA February 29, 1996
EU 1996
Mac OS
NA March 5, 1997
Amiga
EU 1998 iOS August 13, 2009
Linux
October 11, 2011
Genre(s)
Run and gun
Mode(s)
Single-player, multiplayer
Distribution
CD-ROM, download
Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com and published byElectronic Arts in North America and Origin Systems in Europe. It was released on February 29, 1996 for MS-DOS. A Mac OS port of the game was published by Bungieand released on March 5, 1997. In 2009 it was ported to AmigaOS 4.[1] It has also been ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. The game's source code, along with some of the Shareware content, has been in the public domain since the late 1990s. It has also been ported to Linux as a freeware.
Contents
[hide]
1 Plot
2 Gameplay
2.1 Active zone
3 Distribution methods and later developments
4 Development
5 References
6 External links
Plot[edit]
The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been unjustly incarcerated in a prison where the staff are performing unethical medical experiments upon the inmates. A prison riot occurs and an experiment goes horribly wrong. The people inside the prison - except for Nick, who seems to be immune - get infected with a substance called Abuse that transforms them into monsters. With the water supply in danger of being infected, Nick arms himself and fights through the horde to prevent this, and then escapes from the prison complex.
Gameplay[edit]
Abuse resembles a side-scrolling platform game. The game is notable for its (at the time) unusual control scheme: The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the