Ant Attack

Ant Attack
Cover art by David John Rowe
DeveloperSandy White
PublisherQuicksilva
EngineSoftsolid 3D
PlatformsZX Spectrum, Commodore 64
Release
(Spectrum)
1984 (C64)
GenreAction
ModeSingle-player

Ant Attack is an action video game developed by Sandy White for the ZX Spectrum and published by Quicksilva in 1983. A Commodore 64 version was released in 1984.

While Zaxxon and Q*bert previously used isometric projection, Ant Attack added an extra degree of freedom (ability to go up and down instead of just north, south, east and west), and it may be the first isometric game for PCs. The same type of isometric projection was used in Sandy White's later Zombie Zombie. It was also one of the first games to allow players to choose their gender.