Star Strike

[JacobZu7zu7]

Played Star Strike officially the first time today, and wow...

had not expected to like this. I first tried it with just quick

read through the manual.. and played it, hated it, turned it off.

But decided to go back in, re-read the manual carefully, and started

playing made a few mistakes, was confused...

 

I heard a weird clicking sound, thought the game was breaking but read that

it's just damage to the ships engines or beam whatnot. Oh ok good!

Suddenly then dropped a few bombs and the screen shook wildly...

woah what was that...??? Manual = hit swooping red alien ship.

Ah... I see.... coool.

 

Next the earth explodes.. OMG! Oh, I let too many red alien ships past me,

and the earth passed too far outward and was exploded by the aliens???

Holy crap! No pressure...!!

 

Anyhow, suddenly put it all together... even the use of warp speeds...

and damn this is a fun game to me, when I UNDERSTAND how to play.

 

Alien ships you have to WAIT for them to pass you, before you can

get a clear shot into them...

(but thinks the bombs can work on blue ships, and also may have seen alien ships accidently hit other aliens lol)

 

Then when the game ends and you win, the Green Alien planet blows to bits,

and the victory music cue plays. WOW!! Now that's gaming for 1981.

Can't imagine playing this in the day, it's tricky but once you learn,

there's no turning back.

[cparsley]

That's correct, try level 6 now, and your not allowed to miss a single Red target or Planet Earth goes bye bye!

[JacobZu7zu7]

That's correct, try level 6 now, and your not allowed to miss a single Red target or Planet Earth goes bye bye!

 

Yeah, cool game... I heard not great things about it. So, I'm pleased to say, I like it.

 

I did try the hard level setting, lost earth 3 times... but tried again, used warp 1 (slowest) and got them aliens... wasn't easy but received a score of 6,220 on the "no misses" game variation.

 

Plenty of nice settings to choose from.

[+Ransom]

I've never really understood the dislike of that game. It's not bad at all, and I find it more interesting than other similar games such as Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom. It's more of a thinking game, since you can't just blindly blast and bomb. It's all about timing...

[BydoEmpire]

I always liked it, too. Not my favorite Inty game but I had a lot of fun with it. Which reminds me, I need to add it to my top 25...

[cparsley]

the No Miss variation counts score upwards, not downwards like the earlier skill levels. Yes Strike can be a "insert term for a female dog here", but it is that way in a fair and challenging way, not by having cheap deaths etc some other later 80s machine was famous for

[JacobZu7zu7]

the No Miss variation counts score upwards, not downwards like the earlier skill levels. Yes Strike can be a "insert term for a female dog here", but it is that way in a fair and challenging way, not by having cheap deaths etc some other later 80s machine was famous for

Yeah, I first tried this game like it was a random shooter, and it's more then that, and glad it is.

 

I imagine Itellivision games generally would be tough for small kids, because of strategy and

tough controller buttons, overlay options... requiring a manual reading. Though being an adult this is what I look for ...challenges and thinking.

[cparsley]

Most of us "kiddies" who grew up on the INTV preferred the "challenge and completity" compared to the otherwise simplistic controls of say the VCS.