Solar Quest
The player controls a ship that can rotate to the left and right and thrust forward, similar to the better known Asteroids, and like that game the player also has a "hail mary" device, hyperspace. In the…
Solar Quest is an arcade developed by Cinematronics, released 1 November 1981 on Vectrex and Arcade.
What Solar Quest is
Solar Quest is an arcade game developed by Cinematronics and released in 1981. It is available on Vectrex and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player controls a ship that can rotate to the left and right and thrust forward, similar to the better known Asteroids, and like that game the player also has a "hail mary" device, hyperspace. In the center of the screen is the sun, which pulls objects into it, in a fashion similar to Spacewar!. The screen wraps at the edges. Waves of enemy spaceships appear in groups of up to eight. There are seven different types of ships, growing smaller to make them harder to hit. Each "phase" of the gameplay completes when each of the seven waves is destroyed. The spaceships are a collision hazard and normally fly around the screen randomly. As the game progresses, they become more likely to…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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