Threshold for the Atari 8-bit family

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Published on April 21, 2014 8:23:53 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-lveW0rP6U

Game:

Threshold (1981)

Duration: 1:32

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Came also out for:

Apple II
Atari 2600
ColecoVision
Commodore 64
Thomson TO
VIC-20


Game description:

Threshold is a simple shoot'em up game. You are in control of a spaceship at the bottom of the screen and have to shoot several formations of enemies at the top of the screen.

To make things more difficult you have limited time in form of a fuel tank which will get refilled after you cleared a number of waves. Besides that, your spacecraft is equipped with a laser that tends to overheat. Every shot makes the heat bar of the laser increase a bit. Once it reached its maximum you can't fire anymore and are forced to wait until it cools down while slowly running out of fuel.


What I think:

Not a bad game, but the overheating is annoying.