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Stonkers
Sign in to saveStonkers is a strategy video game for the ZX Spectrum published by Imagine Software in 1983. It was written by John Gibson with graphics by Paul Lindale. In 2013, TechRadar called it an early example of a real-time strategy game.
Game details · IGDB
Stonkers is controlled either using keyboard or joystick. In the game, the player controls infantry, artillery, tank, and supply-truck units. Combat units consume supplies over time and the player must use the supply units to replenish them. Supply units are unloaded while a ship docks at the player's port. Information about ongoing events is displayed in a ticker tape on the bottom of the screen.
- Released
- 1984
- Genres
- Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
- Platforms
- ZX Spectrum, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Imagine Software
- Publisher
- Imagine Software
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Genre
- strategy video game
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Developer
- Imagine Software
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Distribution format
- digital distribution
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- publication date
- 2022-06-06
- input device
- computer keyboard
- distributed by
- Steam
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- Reception
- References
- External links
Stonkers is a strategy video game for the ZX Spectrum published by Imagine Software in 1983. It was written by John Gibson with graphics by Paul Lindale. In 2013, TechRadar called it an early example of a real-time strategy game.
==Gameplay== Stonkers is controlled either using keyboard or joystick. In the game, the player controls infantry, artillery, tank, and supply-truck units. Combat units consume supplies over time and the player must use the supply units to replenish them. Supply units are unloaded while a ship docks at the player's port. Information about ongoing events is displayed in a ticker tape on the bottom of the screen.
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