---
title: Air Raid
tags:
- ballistic
- plane
- shoot them up
- shooting gallery
- war
years:
- '1979'
params:
  image: /media/museum/software/air-raid_compucolor_ss_menu.png
  specs:
  - label: year of release
    value: '1979'
  - label: companies
    value: Compucolor
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: disk
  - label: requirement
    value: 16 KB
  - label: systems
    value: Compucolor
  - label: number of players
    value: 1 player
  screenshots:
  - title: Disk menu
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/air-raid_compucolor_ss_menu.png
  - title: In game screenshot
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/air-raid_compucolor_ss_1.png
  - title: Shoot at the planes with your canon
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/air-raid_compucolor_ss_2.png
  - title: Disk illustration
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/air-raid_compucolor_inlay_2.jpg
  machines:
  - /museum/isc-intelligent-systems-corp-compucolor-ii
  company: /companies/isc-intelligent-systems-corp
  oc_id: 723
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20220819055759/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=723
    date: '2022-08-19'
---

Air Raid was released in 1979 on the first Compucolor Soft-Disk along with three other games (Race, Quintominoes, Rover Robot).

This is no drill, you've got radar confirmation: enemy bombers carrying nuclear weapons are approaching with fighter escorts. Man the anti-aircraft gun - your country is depending on you to bring them down!

Air Raid is an excellent game for 1979 and plays very well. It was inspired by [Anti-Aircraft](/software/anti-aircraft/) from Atari, an arcade game released in 1975.

This version from Compucolor add an excellent feature: ballistic. Indeed, all your bullets go up but then will eventually fall back down to the ground, in nice curved trajectories.

An essential game for the Compucolor computer!