How to play Behind Jaggi Lines! online
- Steer your ship: arrow keys
- Fire: Z or X
- Keypad (K, or the number keys): in the finished game, 1 lands, 2 switches engines and shields, 3 opens the airlock, 6 and 9 take off and set thrust, 7 calls the mother ship. These builds should match.
- Start: Enter
- Pause: P
Gameplay
You fly down into the valleys of Fractalus looking for crashed pilots. Land near one, open the airlock when he reaches your ship, and move on, shooting the Jaggi gun positions that fire at you. Once you have rescued at least half your quota the mother ship comes to collect you. Suicide saucers join in from level four, and from level 16 the missions take place at night.
About this prototype
Rescue on Fractalus! was one of the first two games from Lucasfilm’s Games Group, led by Peter Langston, with David Fox as project leader. AtariProtos says it began as a non-violent game called Rescue Mission; the guns came after George Lucas asked where the fire button was. The Jaggi name is a joke about “jaggies”, the stair-step edges the graphics could not smooth out, and Atari’s marketing people dropped the title because they feared buyers would not get it. Two Behind Jaggi Lines builds are known, from January and February 1984, both nearly complete. Atari Corporation finally sold the renamed game for the 5200 in 1986, in small numbers.
