Saturday, November 26, 2011

Game of the Day - Moon Shuttle


Moon Shuttle is a rare breed indeed - the old school horz shooter.  It's nothing much like Defender and maybe a skosh like Scramble.

In the asteroid rounds, you are slowly moving thru the asteroid field and you have to blast a path through it.  You can blast a slim path, but the more asteroids you blast, the more you score, so risk going for broke.

Then, there are waves of different enemy ships that attack.  They are jittery and variable and can be hard to hit.  In fact, the collision detection in the game seems a little off.  For an old game, the shot/explosion sounds are pretty good.  The graphics are very 1981, so there isn't a lot to see.  Mostly, the game is fun for the battle to carve out space among the asteroids and trying to blast the frustrating enemy ships.  There aren't too many old school space games that fire in this direction.

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