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You paid good money to stand in a mall in 1983. These cost nothing, and nobody is waiting behind you for a turn.
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Every wave is a tech craze that was going to change everything. Y2K, the dot-com boom, the metaverse. Hold the line, hide behind the bunkers and pick off the mystery ship for bonus points.
Move with the left and right arrows or A and D. Fire with Space.
Pure vector blasting. Rotate, thrust and shoot, and watch every rock split into smaller, faster ones. Flying saucers show up now and then and they do not play nice.
Rotate with left and right, thrust with up, fire with Space. Down warps you across the screen, and it is risky.
Landers are trying to carry colonists off the planet. Shoot the lander, catch the colonist as they fall and set them down gently. The world wraps around and the scanner at the top shows all of it.
Left and right turn and thrust, up and down climb and dive. Space fires. X sets off a smart bomb.
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