Lunar Patrol
A downloadable game
Jump over the craters and shoot your way out of trouble for as long as you can without losing all of your lives. You get extra buggy every 10000 points.
Your mission, as pilot of the moon patrol vehicle, is to traverse the surface of the moon, avoiding potholes and enemies along the way.
In the game you control a moon buggy that must travel between checkpoints on the moon's surface while avoiding crashing into rocks, rolling stones and landmines, falling into craters and being destroyed by UFOs and tanks firing shots at you.
There are two different UFOs which fly above you. One of the UFOs leaves a crater when it fires down, making the player's journey even more perilous.
This is an enhanced Moon Patrol arcade game version, with smooth parallax scrolling and reprogrammed physics system, designed to run on J2ME / Symbian devices (cell phones).
It consists of 4 different A~Z courses (while the original arcade game has 2 courses). The game's difficulty gradually increases every 4 stages: increasing the speed of bombs, enemy shots, rolling rocks, number of UFOs and angle of UFO missiles. When you exit the game or your device's battery runs out, your progress is saved automatically.
SPACE or ENTER key is assigned to FIRE on S40 systems by default while Symbian S60v3 uses A or ENTER key for FIRE, this function is implemented by the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
You can play with D-Pad and use those keys simultaneously.
Tested on real hardware (Nokia): C3-00, E5-00, E63, E71, E72, X2-01, 5310 XpressMusic.
Tested on Esmertec Jbed Build ID: 20080328.3.1 for Windows Mobile.
Available resolutions: 320x240 and 240x320.
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| Updated | 1 day ago |
| Status | Released |
| Author | GRP Software |
| Genre | Action |
| Tags | Arcade, classic, coin-op, j2me, java-me, moon-patrol, scrolling-shooter, side-scrolling, symbian |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
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-=07/feb/2026=-
Final modifications and probably the definitive version.
- horizontal shots from the buggy can eliminate UFOs bombs
- the buggy's front wheel is slightly forward
- score effects are a bit larger
- collision with a more forgiving crater
- enemy tank fire is more visible
- others touches
Lunar Patrol changes:
- added terrain letters E,J,O,T
- buggy explosion
- one type of enemy UFO moves faster
- UFOs bombs sprites are more visible
- HUD progress bar
- enemy minibuggy: improved animation and score algorithm
- game difficulty tweak
- others minor touches
if it's a downloadable game then where's the download button?...
Lunar Patrol will be released soon, sorry i have other things to do in real life other than game programming, the plan is to be released before Christmas.
I can guarantee you that this game is one of the best conversions of Moon Patrol. The game is ready with 3 courses (A~Z), I am finishing the development with 1 additional course, totaling 4 courses.
Thank you for the comment.
Your welcome, and I'm eager to try it out.
It's amazing to know that java-games are still created this days^^)
All my J2ME games were created and published on the OVI Store in 2012. I'm just improving them, adding new levels, improving the graphics, etc...
Believe me, even that kind of action around java games is really saldom rn, unfortunatelly of course...(
What is "saldom rn" ?