Activision Classics - Spider Fighter

A game that I haven't played often, but playing this in recent times, I find this to be pretty cool, especially the sound effect for the rapid-shooting poison pellets. This game is pretty fast-paced, so deaths can be frequent and the slower ones need to be wary. I believe this is another popular game in its day and is still a fan favorite.

From the manual: "Game Objective: Protect your fruit orchard from insect fruit theives, scoring points by exterminating the attackers. Game Controls: To move your mobile blaster left or right across the screen, press the left or right Directional Button. Use the X button to fire poison pellets. Your fruit orchard is growing oranges, grapes, strawberries, and bananas. You must protect each variety of fruit from waves of insects. Four waves attack oranges, grapes and strawberries. Then unlimited waves of insects attack your bananas. Each wave starts out with three fruit and four Master Nests."

I find it to be very hard to make it up to gray, which is average for me now to get to. Two of those insect fruit thieve managed to steal two grapes! The worst thing is that the X button sometimes fails on me supposedly when I fire too often. It's not that the X button is really failing on me. At least I hope not.

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• Insect
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• Poison
• Pellet

[wmthomas28]

Does anyone remember Plaque attack?

[OceanBlueKirby]

I certainly do. I have a gameplay video of this game, also.

[p05esto]

Also my favorite Atari game. The graphics looked great, fast action....it was ahead of its time!

[FeralBeast666]

This was always one of my favorite Atari games. One thing I miss about old games is how strange the concepts of some of them were. Protecting your fruit from herbivorous flying spiders.

[Nitehawk4]

Hey! great to see this game! It was the first game I got for my Atari 2600 back in the day. Loved this game!!

[TheCheezWizz]

I remember spider fighter. When I was a kid I could never lose until I got bored. I had the game beaten because I would pretty much snipe the enemies as they came and they'd never actually get a chance to do anything.

[thrasil]

this was my favorite atari game back then.

Great too see it once more! :)

wish i still had the patch. lol

[TruthPsychic]

Kick ASS!

[Keranu]

Nice sound effects indeed! Early video games always had my favorite sound effects. Sometimes it seems like the sound effects create music.