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This article is about the arcade game. For the comic book creator and cartoonist nicknamed "Gorf", see Jordan B. Gorfinkel.
Gorf is an arcade video game released in 1981 by Midway Manufacturing, whose name was advertised as an acronym for "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force". It is a fixed shooter with five distinct levels, the first of which is based on Space Invaders and another on Galaxian. The game makes heavy use of synthesized speech for the Gorfian robot which taunts the player, powered by the Votrax speech chip.[3] Gorf allows the player to buy two additional lives per quarter before starting the game, for a maximum of seven lives.
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Developer(s) | Midway Roklan Corporation (Atari 8-bit/5200) CBS Electronics (2600) Nuvatec (ColecoVision) |
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Designer(s) | Jamie Fenton |
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Genre(s) | Fixed shooter |
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Arcade system | Astrocade[1] |
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The home ports omit the Galaxians stage because the Japanese developer Namco owns the rights to the franchise.