Nightraiders

Nightraiders is a scrolling shooter designed by Peter Filiberti and published in 1983 by Datamost for Atari 8-bit computers.

The player's ship can be moved back and forth along the bottom of the screen, firing laser cannons to destroy enemy tanks, bridges and other structures.

The Addison-Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984 reviewer gave the game a poor rating (D) and found it dull with very little to hold interest.

He called it "a poor's man Zaxxon" with graphics "slightly above normal - especially those of the city and the tanks within it - they're not what gamers have come to expect in bombing run games.

"[4] He wrote, "perhaps the worst aspect of Nightraiders is the documentation," and even after reading it he was unclear what a fuel depot or even the enemy base looked like.

Gameplay screenshot