SEASON 3 - Weekly Game Challenge #2 - Astro Blaster!

This is where I get stuck. I nearly got it by purposely destroying 2 ships so I could use the warp repeatedly to quickly get through 2 phases of level 3, but ran out of fuel just before the docking stage. So frustrating.

My current high is now 18070.

You generally only want to use warp on stages with enemies that travel across the screen horizontally which is usually the last stage before the asteroids. On the horizontal stages, shooting all of the enemies before they wrap around without missing is a secret bonus, shooting them in order is another.

Sector 3 is hard since there are 6 stages and the asteroids but sector 4 is brutal as there are a whopping 8 stages of enemies and the asteroids to get through. I have never gotten through sector 4 (well I can if I disable fuel depletion but not normally).
 
You generally only want to use warp on stages with enemies that travel across the screen horizontally which is usually the last stage before the asteroids. On the horizontal stages, shooting all of the enemies before they wrap around without missing is a secret bonus, shooting them in order is another.

Sector 3 is hard since there are 6 stages and the asteroids but sector 4 is brutal as there are a whopping 8 stages of enemies and the asteroids to get through. I have never gotten through sector 4 (well I can if I disable fuel depletion but not normally).

I find if I don't warp on the first wave of level 3, which is only 4 enemies to shoot (but they respawn back to a full set of 4 again if you don't get all of them before the dive down to the bottom of the screen), I end up wasting a ton of time/fuel. I'll need to up my game to get through level 3, that's for sure...

This was one of the first arcade games I ever played BITD. I play it casually for fun now and again, I'm enjoying having an "excuse" to play it more seriously.
 
I find if I don't warp on the first wave of level 3, which is only 4 enemies to shoot (but they respawn back to a full set of 4 again if you don't get all of them before the dive down to the bottom of the screen), I end up wasting a ton of time/fuel. I'll need to up my game to get through level 3, that's for sure...

You really have to get them the first time. If you manage to shoot them in order then you get a 1500 point secret bonus.

This was one of the first arcade games I ever played BITD. I play it casually for fun now and again, I'm enjoying having an "excuse" to play it more seriously.

I played it back in the day as well. Unfortunately I haven't seen an actual cabinet since the 80s. Astro Blaster seems rare now, at least here in the Bay Area. Heck I haven't even seen one at CAX.
 
This was the first game I owned and miss it since playing it in MAME again. It's definitely faster in MAME for some reason.

 
No one brings one to CAX??!! Are you sure?? I have one :) !



I played it back in the day as well. Unfortunately I haven't seen an actual cabinet since the 80s. Astro Blaster seems rare now, at least here in the Bay Area. Heck I haven't even seen one at CAX.[/QUOTE]
 
21400 was the best I could muster. I put in at least a dozen or more games yesterday last minute in an attempt to beat 1st place... didn't happen.
 
Congrats to manadams!

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This week's game:

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Go here for new thread:

https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=417860

Woot!

-GackAttack
 

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No one brings one to CAX??!! Are you sure?? I have one :) !

The somewhat similar Astro Fighter (by Data East) has been there several times but never an Astro Blaster. In fact I have asked the organizers about it since it is one of the few games I played back in the day that hasn't been at the show.
 
2nd chance to play!

If anyone missed the first time, here is your chance to play again!

Go here for the 2 week final challenge for Season 3:
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=418796

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Woot!

We're also shooting for doing a 'live' virtual tourney either next Friday December 29 or Saturday December 30, maybe even BOTH! I'll post link to thread once I confirm schedule with orangewhip.

-GackAttack
 
Wow! Your Astro Blaster Is Beautiful!.....Awesome Picture, I need to do some cabinet repairs on my Astro Blaster but she's running pretty good.
 
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