Moonvasion Demo

Moonvasion is a Defender clone for the Macintosh, written by William "Bill" Homer Waits and submitted to the Info-Mac and Stanford archives in January 1993. This download is the playable demo, which gives you the first three rounds of the full shareware game and shares the look and feel of the author's earlier title Bpeede.

Gameplay

Like Defender, Moonvasion puts the player in a side-scrolling craft tasked with fending off waves of attackers. The demo unlocks the opening three rounds; the rest of the campaign opens up after sending in the shareware fee.

Lineage

The author notes that Moonvasion comes from the same hand as Bpeede and inherits its presentation, so anyone familiar with that earlier title will feel immediately at home with the controls and visual style.

Distribution

Moonvasion was originally posted from a Georgia Tech account and uploaded to the Stanford Mac archives, the Info-Mac mirror network, and other shareware channels of the period. The text accompanying the demo is a short letter from Bill Waits to the archive maintainer Gordon, supplying the description that had been missing from the first upload.

Format

The release ships as a BinHex-encoded archive (moonvasion-demo.hqx) under info-mac/game/com/, the directory used for commercial and shareware demos at the time.