The Eliminator (video game)

The Eliminator
Publisher(s)Adventure International
Programmer(s)TRS-80
Terry Gilman
Wayne Westmoreland
Apple II
John Anderson
Atari 8-bit
Steve Coleman
Platform(s)Apple II, Atari 8-bit, TRS-80
Release1981: TRS-80, Apple
1982: Atari
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

The Eliminator is a horizontally scrolling shooter written by Terry Gilman and Wayne Westmoreland for the TRS-80 and published by Adventure International in 1981. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers and Apple II. The Eliminator is a clone of the Defender arcade game.