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Para Assault Course

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Timed side-scrolling assault-course action

The briefing

About this game

Assault Course: Combat Academy challenges you to complete a series of side-scrolling assault courses, with two minutes allowed for each course.

Move from left to right by waggling the joystick and release it before pressing the fire button at the correct moment for each obstacle. Failed obstacles must be attempted again, costing valuable time.

The courses feature six possible obstacles: climbing a high wall, jumping across water, hanging from a rope bridge, crawling beneath barbed wire, swinging over water, and carefully crossing a log. Completing a course within the time limit advances you to the next one; failure costs one of three lives.

Game Information

  • Developer: Brian Cross
  • Publisher: Players Software
  • Release date: December 31, 1989
  • Platforms: Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
  • Genres: Action, Arcade