#13 Star Post: Defend your Outpost! [Commodore C64]

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This time i showcase another C64 game which can be controlled with the Atari 2600 paddle controller. This is in fact recommended as it makes the gameplay much easier!
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[jamesheyworth]

Hello again,
This game looks like a good high score builder. I do not know if this was ported to the Atari or not ( Atari was my system) but I would definitely give this one a go, more now than when I was a boy ( I would have been 11 at that time), and I may have thought this game to hard or boring way back then. It looks like a arcade game.
Also back in early to mid 80s I would go down to the local computer store with my Grandad every Saturday to buy a game or two ( if one was budget ) and the choice was mine ( yes it was awesome I was so lucky to have a Grandad so tech savvy, and happy to play parents were not so inclined. ) . Anyway if this game was on the shelf, the box would catch my eye ( beautiful box art ) but the screen shots, if any on the back would make me put it down again and say " naaaa, I'll get this one instead ." Which would be a racer or something .
The game itself reminds me of Tempest but instead of being on the outside shooting in, you are on the inside shooting out. As I said a good high score builder, but may have been better with more enemy sprites and maybe a bonus round or two, to break up the frantic action and have a bit of a rest pheeeewww . The game is pretty fast and I bet my trigger finger cramps up a lot during play.
Paddle support is a bonus .
One thing I did not understand is why the background flashed on some explosions was it random or did it indicate something I could not see.( maybe it was that blasted UFO) but the background flashed quite a lot .
Good content, nice upload.

[PadreAbraham]

This would defenitely have been a game which i would have played with my friend just to see who would do best.
Maybe a bit of topic, but i think the strangest games (not bad) were released on cartridge on the C64. Most populair games came on tape and/or floppy disk.

[krazykriz]

ich denke, das spiel war der auslöser für die epilepsiehinweise bei den neuen konsolen 😁