Meteor Mission 2 on a TRS-80 Model 1

This is a classic TRS-80 game and my all-time favourite from 1981. The idea is to rescue the little astronauts (block-men) by landing on the platform while dodging the asteroids. Very addictive. Gotta love the low-res graphics and general cheesiness but hey, this is 16 kilobytes of RAM and 1978 technology we are talking about here! Second life, it aint!

From the System 80 section of my retro-computing archive website at http://www.classic-computers.org.nz . The System 80 is a TRS-80 M1 clone. The video was recorded from an emulator, called HT 1080z which is discussed here: http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/s...

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[Mike Perigo]

A very nice port of the arcade machine. Even with the limited graphics it compares very favourably with ports to other 8 bit machines.

[Aprylla13]

Oh does this take me back. Space bar all the way to the ship baby!

[bukster1]

For its day, this was a good game. Home consoles or computers were pocket calculators compared to what you can buy today.

[KillerSalmon]

This looks very cool - when I initially clicked on it, I thought it was just an Asteroids clone but it's something else completely.

[RukiKatiakicz]

looks fun. I found meteor mission from the Lunar Rescue wiki (played it on taito legends), a game which this is very very similar to.

[ThrilloVanHouten]

Whoa, amazing sounds for a Model 1!

[franklaarakker]

Have a look at the website of bigfivesoftware . They have some nice background on the authors!

[Terry Stewart]

Yes, all you needed to do was to connect an amplifier to the cassette OUT port. The game programmers had done the rest!

[Joe Hillman]

I remember playing this game back in 79, I think. I used to get up in the middle of the night to play it. I enjoyed it so much that I wrote a version of the game for the iPhone and iTouch :) And I just got it approved today from Apple! Look to your right for the video :) Meteor Mission III.

[ftorresgamez]

I remember this game very well! For the sound my pop had to buy this mini amplifier that connected to the cassette tape mini output. It took like 5 minutes to load from the tape recorder but it was a blast! I also loved the other games from these guys (I believe Big 5 Software).