---
title: Rocket Patrol
tags:
- shoot them up
- shooting gallery
- space
years:
- '1978'
params:
  image: /media/museum/software/rocket_patrol_ss_1.png
  specs:
  - label: year of release
    value: '1978'
  - label: companies
    value: APF Electronics (publisher)
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: built-in system
  - label: systems
    value: APF MP1000 systems
  - label: number of players
    value: 1 - 2 players (alternate)
  screenshots:
  - title: title screenTitle screen
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/rocket_patrol_ss_1.png
  - title: shoot the enemy patrol
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/rocket_patrol_ss_2.png
  - title: missed !
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/rocket_patrol_ss_3.png
  - title: this is not a bug, but the actual explosion of the enemy spaceship
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/rocket_patrol_ss_4.png
  machines:
  - /museum/apf-imagination-machine
  company: /companies/apf
  oc_id: 839
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230529185507/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=839
    date: '2023-05-29'
---

This is the built-in game for the APF MP-1000 videogame system released in 1978.

The object of the game is to destroy the most space ships within 1 minute period.

In 1 player mode (see video below), your opponent is the videogame system. For the first minute it will fire at the space ships trying to score most points. Then, it's your turn, also for 1 minute. The player has an advantage over the system, as he can move the firing station from left to right along the bottom of the screen.

There is also a 2 players mode.

Overall, this game offered within the APF MP-1000 system is quite bad and repetitive.

It was inspired by the Atari arcade game [Anti-Aircraft](/software/anti-aircraft/) (1975)