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Hydra is an arcade video game where players are piloting a hovercraft, trying to deliver top secret items while avoiding mines, other hovercraft, and logs. Collect money and fuel to continue. X-Y yoke control.

Hydra
Developer(s)	Atari Games ICE Software (Amiga/Atari ST/C64) Moonstone Computing (CPC/ZX Spectrum) NuFX (Lynx)
Publisher(s)	Atari Games Domark, Tengen (Amiga/Atari ST/C64/CPC/ZX Spectrum) Atari Corporation (Lynx)
Producer(s)	Milt Loper
Programmer(s)	Dennis Harper Andrew Burgess
Artist(s)	Chuck Eyler Deborah Short Nick Stern
Composer(s)	Brad Fuller Don Diekneite
Platform(s)	Arcade Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Release	1990 Arcade WW: June 1990[1] Amstrad CPC EU: 1990 Amiga EU: 1991 Atari ST EU: 1991 Commodore 64 EU: 1991 ZX Spectrum EU: 1991 Lynx NA: 1992 EU: 1992
Genre(s)	Vehicular combat
Mode(s)	Single-player
Arcade system	Atari G1[1]

Gameplay

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In Hydra thieves are trying to steal the treasures from a museum, these artefacts contain secrets to a weapon and it is your job to stop them. The player is issued an experimental speedboat to navigate the rivers in order to retrieve the treasures from checkpoints.[2] There are nine levels of rivers and oceans, while playing the game the player can collect money bags for extra cash and crystals for extra fuel.[3] The obstacles are gun embankments, enemy crafts and other nuisances which will slow you down and you can loose your cargo which will float down stream that you will have to go and collect.[4][3] At the end of each level the player then drops off the cargo and can then buy upgrades from a shop to improve the Hydra speedboat.[5]

Development and release

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Reception

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Robert Jung reviewed the Atari Lynx version of the game which has been published on IGN, he went on to say the game borrowed "heavily from Roadblasters" but he found it fun giving a score of 8 out of 10.[3] Game Zero Magazine reviewed the game giving a score of 82 out of 100.[6]

References

External links

• Hydra at AtariAge
• Hydra at GameFAQs
• Hydra at Giant Bomb
• Hydra at Killer List of Videogames
• Hydra at MobyGames

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