Gorf

Gorf
Gorf
	Arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Dave Nutting Associates
Publisher(s)	Midway Manufacturing Atari 8-bit; CBS Video Games; 2600; CBS Video Games; ColecoVision; Coleco; 5200; CBS Video Games;
Designer(s)	Jamie Fenton
Platform(s)	Arcade Atari 8-bit; Atari 2600; BBC Micro; ColecoVision; Atari 5200; Commodore 64; VIC-20; ;
Release	February 1981 Arcade; February 1981; Atari 2600; December 1982; ColecoVision; May 1983; Atari 5200; October 1983;
Genre(s)	Fixed shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player; 2 player alternating;

Gorf is an arcade video game released in 1981 by Midway Manufacturing. 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 use of synthesized speech for the Gorfian robot which taunts the player, powered by a speech chip. Gorf allows the player to buy two additional lives per quarter before starting the game, for a maximum of seven lives.

The home ports omit the Galaxians stage because the Japanese developer Namco owns the rights to the franchise.