Moon Cresta

by Nichibutsu · published by Incentive Software, Sega, Taito, Centuri, Hamster Corporation · Cresta series

1980 · Wii, PS1, PS3, C64, ACPC, ZXS

Shooter Arcade Action Single-player Multiplayer Sci-fi Isometric

Moon Cresta is an arcade game released in 1980 by Nichibutsu. A moving starfield gives the impression of vertical scrolling, but the game is a fixed shooter in the vein of Namco's Galaxian. Incentive Software published a version of this arcade game for many 8-bit home computers of the time. Dempa also released a port of both Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta for the X68000. It was also released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on March 9, 2010 and PlayStation 4 (Arcade Archives) in 2014.