Your rover fires two cannons simultaneously—one straight ahead and one directly upward. This allows you to shoot at alien craft buzzing overhead while destroying terrestrial obstacles on the ground.
Conclusion Simple, tight, and inventive, Moon Patrol distilled multiple gameplay ideas into a compact arcade experience that rewards precision, memorization, and split-second decisions. Its continued presence in retro collections and archives is well deserved: it’s both historically significant and still entertaining, a direct line from early-1980s arcade design to many of today’s action-oriented games. Arcade Archives MOON PATROL -01003000097FE800--...
The string refers to the unique Title ID for the North American and Australian digital release of Arcade Archives MOON PATROL on the Nintendo Switch eShop. This classic 1982 side-scroller, originally developed by Irem , has been faithfully revitalized by the HAMSTER Corporation as part of their extensive Arcade Archives (ACA) series. The Legacy of Moon Patrol (1982) Its continued presence in retro collections and archives