Home Computing Weekly


Cyclons

Author: A.W.
Publisher: Rabbit
Machine: Commodore Vic 20

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #19

Yippee! An invader game with a *new* scenario. Excuse the outburst but new ideas are a rarity nowadays.

Consider an asteroid-type arrangement in which you and the aliens float about the screen. You attempt to shoot the aliens by firing in any of the eight standard directions. The opposition will either shoot back or try to ram you.

As you kill an alien, it is replaced with a new one. The numbers increase as you survive. In the higher levels, nasty homing aliens appear and they are tough to deal with.

You can select one of three options. These are fast start (i.e. skip the easy bit), bouncing bullets and landscape. The last option draws a range of hills along the bottom of the screen. Colliding with this results in death. You can select any of these options in any combination to give the difficulty of your choice.

A.W.

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