Moon Bugs

Moon Bugs description

Very old game, dedicated to protecting earth's colonies on the moon from alien-insectoid (do not use space ships, by the way) and is quite an interesting and unusual variant of Space Invaders.

The essence of the game is that in the lower part of the screen is a gun that needs to shoot these insects that fly from the top down. But insects don't tend to (although can) to destroy the gun – they are interested in the barrels of uranium are also at the bottom of the screen it protects. That is, they fly down, steal the barrel and fly up. If all the barrels will be stolen – it is bad. But if you get to the beetle before he managed to fly into the unknown – the barrel falls again ago.

Save the barrels from abduction it is impossible, but to save in the end all have to try. Uranium feeds space station (located on the left side of the screen), which controls the radar dish (on the right side of the screen), and once "scale" uranium is fully restored, the relationship will be restored and the level will end. Per saved barrel, you get two points, but the same number is subtracted for each stolen beetles.

Sometimes the top of the screen you can see flying from left to right the alien ship. The blue square on the screen will show either the number of points (as you get if you knock it), or the word "Combat". If you hit it in this case, you will get access to the bonus level with completely different game mechanics: there will need to shoot horizontally above you alien-robot, and each hit the target shot changes its direction of motion, reduces the speed and gives you three hundred and fifty extra points.

Despite the year of release, this game is beautiful (albeit rather dark) background, and a bright and colored objects of the environment (the same station and plate). The gameplay, despite the formal similarity with the same Space Invaders, still quite original and perhaps more dynamic. So to all lovers of active and busy computer rest (because the game is really quite complex) strongly recommended it.

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Source: Archive.org