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A classic not only on the Atari VCS, but the Intellivision as well.

Graphics: 5 Sound: 4 Replay Value: 4 Notes: 1- or 2-player game Screen Shots

Demon Attack is by all measures a Classic. It's much more than an adaptation of the Atari VCS classic. Some of the smoothest animation I've ever seen on the Intellivision - especially the Tentacled Terrorists. But, this also seems to be one of the buggiest Intellivision games I've ever played. Many games end with a lockup, or stick with sprites scrolling in a fixed pattern and all other motion stopping (e.g. missile or demon wraps around forever). Best Score: 40321 [Game 1]

A total of three Demon Attack box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Imagic	710005-1 Rev. A	1982	U.S.A.	Cover art uses chrome dinosaurs with rockets mounted on them; standard black tray with cardboard backing; has game name and catalog number on top; game title on silver background on spine
	Imagic	710005-1 Rev. B	1982	U.S.A.	Cover art uses cooler leathery 'space pterodactyl' painting from centerfold of manual; standard black tray with cardboard backing; has game name and catalog number on top; game title on silver background on spine
	Imagic	710005-2A	1982	U.S.A.	International Edition—text in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish; cover art uses cooler leathery 'space pterodactyl' painting from centerfold of manual; standard black tray with cardboard backing; has game name and catalog number on top; game title on silver background on spine

The box art for Demon Attack underwent a radical change. Gone were the chrom-plated dinosaurs with cheap rockets glued to them! The more elegant artwork from the manual was put on the front of the box instead.

A total of five Demon Attack manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Imagic	700005-1A	1982	U.S.A.	Has chrome dinosaur artwork
Image not available.	Imagic	700005-1B	1982	U.S.A.	UNCONFIRMED! Which artwork is on the cover of this version? Hankster has reported this version exists, but still need scans
	Imagic	700005-1C	1982	U.S.A.	Has cooler artwork cover using artwork from centerfold
	Imagic	700005-2A	1982	U.S.A.	International Edition—instructions in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish; uses cooler artwork cover using artwork from centerfold
Image not available.	Digiplay	N/A	None	Brazil	Digiplay edition; no part number or copyright apparent; submitted by Psycho Stormtrooper

Supplemental Materials

The following supplemental materials have been found for Demon Attack.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Imagic	711005-1A	2000		Black text version of note about 2-player game

The following sections describe the differences I've recognized so far between revisions 700005-1A and 700005-1C. Not shown is the lighter, orange background art from pages 11-12, as it's not obvious that the lighter colors are a true revision, or just due to normal variations in printing. It's unclear which changes first appeared in revision B, as this version hasn't been located yet.

The first internal change we see is on page two, in the illustration showing the overlays.

Here we have a very minor change on page four, where the sub-sub bullet was resized. It's the bright blue star next to the autofire option.

The color of the rocket ship's exhaust changed from yellow to pink. Hmmm...

Here we see that the overlay order form had expanded, and that the mailing address to order replacements changed.

Finally, we see that the designer credit and consumer affairs address changed.

Only one version of the overlay has been found for Demon Attack.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	imagic	140005-1A	1982

A total of four Demon Attack label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Imagic	720005-1A	1982	U.S.A.	Picture label with the chrome dinosaur artwork
	Imagic	720005-1A	1982	U.S.A.	Picture label with pterodactyls; ironically the part number is not different (suspect it should be version 1B, as box is)
	Imagic	720005-2A	1982	U.S.A.	International Edition—label text in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish; silver label
Image not available.	Digiplay	N/A	1982		DigiPlay edition; has © Imagic 1982; game title not translated; standard Mattel cartridge shell, with dark blue label; large label, square corners

	Typical Imagic arract mode title screen.
	The 'splitter' aliens (Tentacled Terrorists) are pretty tough, and very smoothly animated. My only complaint is that I wish they were more colorful. (Of course this can't be so because of the limitations of the Intellivision's graphics chip, mainly.)
	The mothership battle is dang impressive. In fact, there may have even been a legal spat over this vs. the Phoenix arcade game at some point.

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