Starmaxx

## Description

In this side-scrolling shoot-’em-up the player assumes control of a speedy
fighter ship, flying low over hostile territory. The region is teeming with
assorted enemy craft that don’t take too kindly to your presence – from
stationary space mines and curiously-shaped homing devices to flying saucers
with mounted guns – and your only defense against being blasted into oblivion
is your trusty laser beam.

The ship may be freely accelerated to high warp or slowed down to a full stop;
scoring is awarded for progressing through the sectors and destroying enemy
craft. The latter is especially important when it comes to the saucers, since
letting them escape actually takes away points(!). There are no lives as such:
the game progresses until you run out of fuel, but getting shot or crashing
into anything (including the ground) will detract from your score _and_ eat up
gas. Every fifty sectors, a fresh supply of fuel can be picked up to replenish
your tanks.

Starmaxx