Why Vastar Is The 80s Shmup You MUST Play
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🕹 Game Name: Vastar
📛 Alternate Names: Vastar (arcade)
📅 Release Date: 1983 (arcade)
🔫 Genre: Horizontal shoot ’em up / Sci-fi
👨 🏻 💻 Developers: Metro (Data East region)
👨 🏻 💻 Publishers: Metro / Data East
🔢 Max Players: 2 (alternating)
⁉ Cooperative: No (alternating)
🕹 Game Introduction: Early sci-fi shooter with vehicle transformations and memorable bosses.
🕹 Game Description: Simple but challenging stages, weapon pickups and enemy waves.
🎴 Game Play:
👉 🏻 Horizontal shmup pacing with mid-bosses.
👉 🏻 Power-ups boost spread, lasers, speed.
👉 🏻 Pattern memorization essential.
📕 Background & History: One of early 80s space shooters that pushed sprite variety and boss scale.
👓 Lonster's Review: Old-school challenge; great for coin-op collectors and nostalgic runs.
🎉 Trivia:
👉 🏻 Some ports changed weapon behavior.
🐣 Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs:
👉 🏻 Conserve speed boosts on tight corridors; learn boss cycles.
🌟 Legacy: A respected classic among early shooters; influences later horizontal shmups.