vghchannel's video: Astro Battle - 1979 - Bally Astrocade - gameplay

Astrovision © 1979 [Console] Bally Astrocade Emulator: MAME 0.226 And here's the required Space Invaders home clone. This was released as both "Astro Battle" and "Space Invaders" it seems. If the supposed date of Astro Battle is indeed 1979, they would've beat Atari to the home market, so I don't think that's to be trusted. In addition, though -- Atari took the extra effort to actually license the Space Invaders name, and create the best home version they could with a ton of variations and possibilities. This little clone is space invaders-ish. Only 4 rows of aliens, but they move rather quickly. I just set it to the hardest difficulty to see how I'd do, and think it went pretty well. When you get in a pinch, just shoot - as you have a decent chance of knocking out enemy shots with your own shot. That's the only way I survived. Eventually, though, there is just no time to think and way too many shots being rained down on you. I do like the explosion and crazy fire animation when your tank is destroyed - that's pretty cool. 3,880pts (PRO)