CapitanClassic Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I am trying to remember a game for the Atari 800. I believe it was composed of several two/three main screens. One one screen, you used fuel to maneuver your rocket toward different warp zones (similar to Gravitar). You had a fuel and possibly life bar. You would have to occasionally dodge incoming asteroids, but the pacing was rather slow. The next screen had you dodging the planets defenses as you tried to land your rocket on the planet. (I may have imagined this screen) The last major screen was displayed on the planet surface. It consisted of your rockets doorway (silver in color), and the planet surface. The surface was 5-7 astronauts tall, and on each of four corners were concentric circles that had one of two functions. These circles either catapulted you to one of the other circles, or gave your astronaut the H.E.R.O. Personal copter and allowed brief flight. The rest of the ground was covered with rocks and one or more flashing cubes that you need to collect. The resident aliens would try to touch and kill your astronaut (I think I remember the death animation being a hole opening up, and your astronaut falling in, or maybe the astronaut just wiping up/down out of existence. Completing all 4+ warp zones and landing back on your planet started the next harder level. What was the name of this game? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaPa Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Probably Cosmic Tunnels ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 English Software "Mediator" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 Probably Cosmic Tunnels ?Thank you, that was the game I was thinking of. I got very few parts of the description correct. (Must have been the Helicopter/Springboard descriptions that helped nail it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) Thank you, that was the game I was thinking of. I got very few parts of the description correct. (Must have been the Helicopter/Springboard descriptions that helped nail it) It was my first guess after your initial description of the warp tunnels, the dodging asteroids description made me 99.8% sure and by planet surface & rocket doorways I could stake my life on it. A classic, along with a couple other games, the fore-runners that I'm sure inspired Sega with their "super-scaler" (my own name I don't know how Sega and the industry referred to or called them) pseudo-3D sprite based arcade machines a few years later. I just came along to late to answer it for you. Edited January 16, 2019 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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