Yars' Revenge
Yars' Revenge is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was created by Howard Scott Warshaw and was Atari's best-selling original title for the 2600.
Yars' Revenge is an arcade developed by Atari, released 1 May 1982 on Atari 2600 and Web browser.
What Yars' Revenge is
Yars' Revenge is an arcade game developed by Atari and released in 1982. It is available on Atari 2600 and Web browser.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Yars are a community of humanoid houseflies that reside peacefully in the Razak solar system -- until the Qotile destroyed one of its colonized planets. You must help the Yars avenge the destroyed colony and defeat the Qotile. You fly a Yar scout over the shielded base of the Qotile, which you must chip away at by either firing energy blasts or by simply eating away at the shield. Once you have cleared an open path, activate the Zorlon Cannon and use it to blast the Qotile base to oblivion. But watch out for its destroyer missiles, which seek after your Yar scout in order to destroy him. You can hide out in the rainbow-colored Neutral Zone to be safe from the missiles. However, it…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Yars' Revenge holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1982 averaged 66, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
Official trailer
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