Orc Attack

PublishersThorn EMI
Creative Sparks
Top Ten
DesignerDean Lock
ProgrammersAtari 8-bit
Dean Lock
ZX Spectrum
Phil Snell
Commodore 64
Chris James
PlatformsAtari 8-bit, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Release1983: Atari
1984: C64, Spectrum
GenreFixed shooter
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Orc Attack is a fixed shooter video game written by Dean Lock for Atari 8-bit computers and published in 1983 by Thorn EMI. The game was re-released, along with Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum ports, when Thorn rebranded as Creative Sparks, and later at budget price by Sparklers and Top Ten. In Orc Attack, the player protects a castle wall by dropping boulders on ladder climbing orcs. Though the visuals are low resolution, Orc Attack has a high level of violence.