Laser Gates
The thousand galaxies quake at the news: the Cryptic Computer, the galactic defense synthesizer which has maintained peace for the five centuries since the Wars on Zevon, has malfunctioned! Four Failsafe…
Laser Gates is an arcade developed by VentureVision, released 1 October 1983 on Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit.
What Laser Gates is
Laser Gates is an arcade game developed by VentureVision and released in 1983. It was published by Imagic. It is available on Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The thousand galaxies quake at the news: the Cryptic Computer, the galactic defense synthesizer which has maintained peace for the five centuries since the Wars on Zevon, has malfunctioned! Four Failsafe Detonators inside the Computer will now initiate universal self-destruct! The Governors of Enderby order the Dante Dart into action. Only it can spiral down through the nearly impenetrable defenses of the Computer in order to reach and destroy the Detonators!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Laser Gates launched on 1 October 1983, within three weeks of Track & Field and Stop the Express.
Released around the same time: Track & Field, Stop the Express.
Official trailer
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