Astro Fighter
The game of Astro Fighter consists of 4 waves and a refueling stage, which are then repeated with increasingly higher difficulty. The player's task is to eliminate the four successive waves of different types…
Astro Fighter is an arcade developed by Data East Corporation, released 1 October 1979 on Arcade.
What Astro Fighter is
Astro Fighter is an arcade game developed by Data East Corporation and released in 1979. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game of Astro Fighter consists of 4 waves and a refueling stage, which are then repeated with increasingly higher difficulty. The player's task is to eliminate the four successive waves of different types of attacking craft, while avoiding being hit by missiles and bombs, and then refuel by shooting the 'GS' ship before repeating the process. The player starts with 3 lives and receives a bonus life on reaching a score of 5000. 300 bonus points are received for shooting each 6 falling bombs and for 950 for hitting the GS ship accurately on the first shot. A very large bonus of 10,000 is given for getting through 4 waves and refueling by using exactly 2 shots more than the minimum needed…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Astro Fighter holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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