A space-shooter. Protect the earth from falling comets and asteroids.
TECHNICAL Prom Stickers: A62
Main CPU: Motorola M6809 Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 Sound Chips: (4x) General Instrument AY8910
Players: 2 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 2
TRIVIA Halley's Comet was released in January 1986.
This game was inspired by the actual 'Halley's Comet' ('Halley' is pronounced HAL-lee). It was named after Edmund Halley, who calculated its 76-year orbital period. Halley's Comet was visible in 1910 and 76 years after, in 1986 (February 9, to be exact), just the year when this game was released by Taito:). Its next perihelion passage will be in 2061.
TIPS AND TRICKS
Space Humour?:
When you start a new game and after the RESCUE THE EARTH FROM THE COMETS ! message appears, you can move your ship over it. The text will get erased, and the following message will appear over it: DO NOT ERASE.
Level Boss Trick:
Shoot all but one of these squares and then press the hyperspace button (the smart-bomb) when the final square is lit. You should now receive 1,000,000 points! (this works for all level bosses).
Another Tip:
When the game is in Game Over mode, you can actually control the ship at one point. This is rather useless, but fun!
For Invincibility and Infinite Lives DIP Switches to work you must enable Debug Mode by pressing START1 during boot sequence.
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