The Game

A huge beam matrix has formed within the vicinity of your home planet, and beamer ships are at this very moment launching an attack. Your mission is to infiltrate the matrix and annihilate all enemy craft.

Playing The Game

Beamrider is a game for one or two players and can be started from sectors 1, 5 or 10 by pressing the function keys.

Your vessel appears at the bottom of the screen. There are seven different types of beamer ship to be dealt with, the most important of which are the white saucers, 15 of which must be destroyed before one can proceed to the next level. You must also be careful to avoid the indestructible 'kamikaze' craft. Contact with the yellow rejuvenators adds another ship to your reserve. However, if shot, the burning debris hurtles towards you and contact then proves fatal.

When the 15 saucers have been destroyed, you must attempt to destroy the Mother Ship, which is guarded by swarms of green suicide ships. To destroy the Mother Ship, you have three energy torpedoes, launched by pressing the joystick forward.

A direct hit from the torpedo causes the Mother Ship to explode, and a bonus is awarded according to the level and the number of ships remaining.

Game Controls

Normal joystick controls apply. Up fires energy torpedo. Fire fires laser bolt.

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Press RUN/STOP and SHIFT simultaneously on your Commodore.