Rating: 78.3%

Platforms: Wii, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System and Dragon 32/64

Genres: Shooter and Arcade

Themes: Action and Science fiction

Keywords: shoot 'em up, spaceship and space shooter

Perspective: Bird view / Isometric

Developer: Nichibutsu;Nihon Bussan

Publisher: Incentive Software;Sega;Centuri;Taito

Moon Cresta

Summary:

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.