Editing Radar Scope (section)

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{{short description|1980 shooter arcade game}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Radar Scope
| image = Radar scope arcadeflyer.png
| caption = Arcade flyer
| developer = {{Unbulleted list
  | [[Nintendo Research & Development 2|Nintendo R&D2]]
  | [[Ikegami Tsushinki]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=McFerran|first=Damien|date=2018-02-26|title=Feature: Shining A Light On Ikegami Tsushinki, The Company That Developed Donkey Kong|url=https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/02/feature_shining_a_light_on_ikegami_tsushinki_the_company_that_developed_donkey_kong|access-date=2020-06-09|website=Nintendo Life|language=en-GB}}</ref>
  }}
| publisher = [[Nintendo]]
| composer = [[Hirokazu Tanaka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hirokazutanaka.com/works/nintendo/|title=Nintendo Archive - Works｜Sporadic Vacuum|first=Works｜Sporadic|last=Vacuum|website=Hirokazutanaka.com|access-date=September 16, 2017|archive-date=August 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808171105/http://www.hirokazutanaka.com/works/nintendo/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| released = {{vgrelease|JP|October 8, 1980<ref name="USCO"/>|NA|December 1980<ref name="TV Book">{{cite book|last=Akagi|first=Masumi|url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n129|title=任天堂 Nintendo; Nintendo of America; R|work=アーケードTVゲームリスト 国内•海外編 (1971-2005)|edition=1st|publisher=Amusement News Agency|date=13 October 2006|pages=128, 162|isbn=978-4990251215|language=ja}}</ref>}}
| genre = [[Shoot 'em up]]
| modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]], [[multiplayer]] (alternating turns)
| platforms = [[Arcade video game|Arcade]]
}}
{{nihongo foot|'''''Radar Scope'''''|レーダースコープ|Rēdā Sukōpu|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a 1980 [[shoot 'em up]] [[arcade game]] developed by [[Nintendo Research & Development 2|Nintendo R&D2]] and published by [[Nintendo]]. The player assumes the role of the Sonic Spaceport starship and must wipe out formations of an enemy race known as the Gamma Raiders before they destroy the player's space station. Gameplay is similar to ''[[Space Invaders]]'' and ''[[Galaxian]]'', but viewed from a three-dimensional third-person perspective.

''Radar Scope'' was a commercial failure and created a financial crisis for the subsidiary [[Nintendo of America]]. Its president, [[Minoru Arakawa]], pleaded for his father-in-law, Nintendo president [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]], to send him a new game that could convert and salvage thousands of unsold ''Radar Scope'' machines. This prompted the creation of ''[[Donkey Kong (1981 video game)|Donkey Kong]]''. ''Radar Scope'' is one of the first video game projects for artist [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] and for composer [[Hirokazu Tanaka]].

Retrospectively, critics have praised ''Radar Scope'' for its gameplay and design being a unique iteration upon the ''Space Invaders'' template. One critic labeled it one of Nintendo's most important games because its commercial failure inadvertently led to the creation of [[Mario|Nintendo's mascot character]] and helped pave the way for the company's entry into the console video game market.