Attack on Alpha Centauri

_Attack on Alpha Centauri_ is a fixed screen shoot ’em up similar to
Galaxian. Alpha Centauri is being attacked by enormous wasps. They swarm over
the planet while dropping devastating bombs onto it. The player has to try and
kill as many as he can before his inevitable death. The game plays like other
shoot em ‘ups of the early eighties. The player moves his spacecraft left and
right along the bottom of the screen while shooting at the rows of wasps above
him. The wasps start in stationary positions at the top but as time goes they
take turns and move down towards the player and drop bombs. When all the wasps
has been killed off they are replaced with a new and harder wave and the game
goes on until the player has lost all his three lives. Points are given for
each killed enemy. Stationary enemies are worth ten points while the flying
ones are worth a hundred.

Attack on Alpha Centauri