Video game · 1981
Solar Quest
Released November 1981 on arcade video game machine and Vectrex
- Developer
- Cinematronics
- Publisher
- Cinematronics
- Made in
- El Cajon, United States
- Genre
- Shooter, Arcade
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction
About Solar Quest
The player controls a ship that can rotate to the left and right and thrust forward, similar to the better known Asteroids, and like that game the player also has a "hail mary" device, hyperspace. In the center of the screen is the sun, which pulls objects into it, in a fashion similar to Spacewar!. The screen wraps at the edges. Waves of enemy spaceships appear in groups of up to eight. There are seven different types of ships, growing smaller to make them harder to hit. Each "phase" of the gameplay completes when each of the seven waves is destroyed. The spaceships are a collision hazard and normally fly around the screen randomly.
Summary: IGDB.
Release dates
| arcade video game machine | November 1981 |
|---|---|
| Vectrex | 1983 |
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