EGA-Roids Title screen
Title screen

EGA-Roids

Talented and creative developer Designer Software released EGA-Roids in the year 1986. The game was new, challenging and very engaging. Play it again online here.

EGA-Roids description

A clone of Asteroids, was created to demonstrate the capabilities of graphics cards with support for EGA mode, what clearly testifies to the header.

Differences from the original here is negligible, so let's talk about the gameplay, the EGA-Roids and remember the source. So, controlled by the player space ship, more like a paper airplane, it flies into interstellar space, shooting from the bow gun, clears the room of different sizes of asteroids when hit crumbling into smaller pieces, and alien UFOs are of two types: large and small. The longer we stay and the more dangerous objects destroyed, the higher is the indicator of the meter points, and it is precisely this task - to score the most points with three lives-attempts.

Strange but true: their task is to show the 16-color palette for EGA-Roids is absolutely unable to cope: you will not see on the screen at once so many - only four, as in different modes CGA. A great example of how you can ruin a good presentation, it would seem, technology. Alas, only this funny detail EGA-Roids and remarkable.

Do you want to play EGA-Roids online, in your browser? Now you can. Click here to play EGA-Roids online.

Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com

EGA-Roids

Genre:
Action
Year:
1986
Platform:
DOS
Developer:
Designer Software
Perspective:
Top-down
Gameplay:
Arcade, Shooter