Star Strike on the 2600 anyone ever beat it?

[bradhig1]

I can't hit all the silos on the 2600 version. Enemies keep coming up behind me. I have beaten the Intellivision version. All the videos I see on Youtube are people just shooting spaceships and not the silos.

[BassGuitari]

I never played it. It's the only M-Network game I'm still missing from my collection, and it tends to be really overpriced (IMO--it's not that rare).

 

I've beaten the Intellivision version, though. How much differently do they play?

Edited April 6, 2019 by BassGuitari

[Love Cowboy]

So I too had never played Star Strike on the 2600 before seeing this thread, so I busted out the Harmony cart and gave it a whirl... and now I've beaten it.

 

It looks like there are 8 silos instead of the 5 in the Intellivision version, and it also adds some (meteors?) coming at you between waves of enemy spaceships... on the other hand, your bombs are much faster falling than in the Intellivision version, so once you get the timing difference down it's actually easier to hit the silos. Definitely a fun game, and for a 2600 port of an Intellivision game I think it actually does it justice... possibly even an improvement control-wise

[+cvga]

I think many of the MNetwork ports were excellent. Space Battle, Bump N Jump, Astrosmash, and Super Challenge Baseball are all well done.

[Flojomojo]

I'd love a rom hack for this and Star Wars Arcade that doesn't penalize you for missing an impossible shot.