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n. A seismic event occurring on the moon; the lunar equivalent of an earthquake.
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Moonquake is a game written by Paul Taylor and originally published/released on the December 1992 Archimedes World coverdisc. Moonquake is a Bomberman clone for Acorn Computers.
The game is based on the moon, a meteor impact damages the moonbase and you have been called in to clear away the debris that has fallen. Travelling from level to level (10 in total) you are given an infinite collection of bombs to blast away rubble. However, the nuclear reactors around the base have been left online and if hit one too many times they wipe out everything on the level. You also have to avoid malfunctioning security robots which wander around the levels, killing you on contact.
By destroying the fallen rocks, extra blast fuel can be uncovered and picked up which gives your bombs a greater range and kill threat. Extra bombs are available and these enable you to drop more than one bomb at any time.
Mystery boxes left under the debris can have various effects, including setting you to auto-bomb-drop, freezing the droids, making you invincible or causing all unexploded bombs to detonate instantly. There is a two-player mode in which the players go head-to-head, trying to trap each other with their bombs.
Moonquake has since been followed up more recently by Marsquake, which includes new features and options.
Moonquake may refer to:
- Moonquake, seismic event on the Moon
- Moonquake (game), a video game
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Usage examples of "moonquake".
At the moment, Sam was seated in a balloon-tired mooncar, watching as a crew sprayed liquid plastic over the walls and floor of a trench, stabilizing it against movement even under the occasional prod of a moonquake, sealing it against any possibility of leaking air.
No floods, no fires, no storms, a major moonquake is a minor earthquake -- and significant meteor impacts happen once a millennium.
The five seismograph stations of the Passive Seismic Experiment set up between1969and1977 as part of the United States Apollo Program detected up to 3,000 moonquakes every year.
Apollo lunar seismometers have found that moonquakes are most common during lunar perigee, when the Earth is closest to the Moon, and there are at least some hints of earthquakes at the same time.