Rocket ship, asteroid belts and space enemies...classic fun :)
Hi,
There is this game that I probably played 25 years ago, which I have not been able to find since then. It was very simple and had rather crude characters but, nevertheless, it was much fun for me and my friends back then.
It was a stand-up arcade game with a joystick and one button for shooting. You fly this rocket ship horizontally from left to right on the screen. It goes through an asteroid belt, which is static at first, and you shoot the asteroids, so that they disappear. This way you clear a path for the ship to pass through. The ship can only go up and down on the screen but it automatically moves to the right, therefore if you do not blast the asteroids fast enough, you crash into them. You only have the option to slow down a bit the rightward progression if you go to the left with your joystick or speed up the ship a little bit in its rightward movement when you press your joystick to the right.
Once the asteroid level is complete, you move on to a level where you battle foes by shooting at them. Your spaceship is located on the left side of the screen and you only move up and down (and shoot constantly, of course :) ) and your foes are to the right.
And so, the game alternates. In Level 1, you navigate through and shoot the static asteroid belt. In Level 2, then you fight enemies. Level 3 is the asteroid belt again, however this time the last two columns of the asteroid belt are moving - one from top to bottom and the the other from bottom to top on the screen. Level 4 you are fighting different enemies again. Level 5 is the asteroid belt again, however now more columns are moving....and so on. As far as I remember, there were 4 levels of asteroid belts (they were the most fun for me), alternating with 4 different levels of shooting at enemies to your right. I can only remember one level with these enemies, which appeared in the shape of suns. I think that there were two or three large suns on the screen. When you shoot at them, each one splits into two smaller suns and so on....I think altogether one splits four times until you are able to kill the much smaller offsprings.
EDIT: Also, I am pretty sure that in Level 1 the ship and the asteroids were all colored orange.
I would really appreciate it if you could help me with the title of this game and possible link to its ROM. Thank you!
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