{"id":4057,"date":"2018-02-09T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retrovideogamesystems.com\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:11:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:11:44","slug":"laser-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retrovideogamesystems.com\/laser-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Gates."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of them games that doesn’t really look much, the play area is only on half the screen whilst the other half screen contains that game statistics but despite this, its a really fun and quite addictive sideways, shoot-em up scroller!<\/p>\n

Released for the Atari 2600 by Imagic back in 1983, the game places you in control of a space ship called the ‘Dante Dart’.\u00a0 Your mission is to fly you ship through the caverns to reach and destroy\u00a0the Cryptic Computer which has malfunctioned.<\/p>\n

The four Fail-safe Detonators inside the Computer have now initiated a\u00a0 universal self-destruct!\u00a0 This galactic defense synthesizer has maintained peace for the five centuries since the Wars on Zevon.<\/p>\n

Your mission is to navigate you ship through the caverns whilst trying to avoid colliding with the jagged walls, you must destroy byte bats, radar mortars, rocket munchers & homing missiles along the way.<\/p>\n

Amongst this lot, you also have to also contend with blasting you way through Dense pack columns.\u00a0 These are solid walls that you will have to blast a path wide enough to fly your ship through.<\/p>\n