Achieved at : 2023-04-16
Rank : 1
(world record)
Lups : 200
Approved :
Yes
Voting completed : 2023-05-06
| General Rules: |
Game must be played on the actual hardware. Play with default settings unless otherwise specified. No code modifications that give the player an advantage over other players. 1 credit. No continues. 1 player mode only. No use of trainers, cheats, auto-fire (when not default present in-game) , game saves, or cheat codes. Can be overruled by the Specific Rules. It is discouraged and may lead to voters not accepting your score to - excessively point farm - use glitches or other game exploits |
| Specific Rules: | Play the game in 1 player mode with default settings |
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Liberator is a game from Atari, released to the arcades in 1982. It was created by Dennis Harper (Toobin', Return of the Jedi). Not very well known, less than 1,000 machines were produced.
The game consists of two parts. In the first, you have to shoot down several spacecraft that try to ram your craft (at the corners of the screen). In part two, you are attacking missile bases on a planet. The missiles are fired at your craft and other craft also attack you. You have shields but I always forgot to use them! Destroy all the ground bases and craft and it is on to another planet.
I found this one a bit of a challenge. The ground bases didn't always stand out to me despite being red and flashing. I'm colour-blind, so some colours are not as vivid for me as they are for many people. This made the game harder as I needed to focus more attention on what I was doing, leading to a loss of focus on my peripheral vision - crucial for this game!
One interesting mechanic is that the game does not stop when you lose a life. All your lives are on-screen at the same time. In fact, you can be so busy, you don't notice when a life is lost! Another noteworthy feature is the rotating planet - very nicely done.
This run was played using the Steam version of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration on PC. The date of play was the 16th April 2023. The final score was 6,080 points.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is just that, a celebration of 50 years of Atari. Although there have been many Atari game compilations over the years, this one is the best yet, lovingly put together with many documents and features within it. It's like visiting an interactive museum.
Time stamps:
00:30 Selecting the Liberator arcade machine from the library.
00:33 Game loaded.
00:36 Game options.
00:52 Game start.
01:35 First life lost (top left).
02:29 Second life lost (top right).
02:43 Third life lost (top right).
03:10 Fourth life lost (top left). Game Over. Final score 6,080 points.
The game consists of two parts. In the first, you have to shoot down several spacecraft that try to ram your craft (at the corners of the screen). In part two, you are attacking missile bases on a planet. The missiles are fired at your craft and other craft also attack you. You have shields but I always forgot to use them! Destroy all the ground bases and craft and it is on to another planet.
I found this one a bit of a challenge. The ground bases didn't always stand out to me despite being red and flashing. I'm colour-blind, so some colours are not as vivid for me as they are for many people. This made the game harder as I needed to focus more attention on what I was doing, leading to a loss of focus on my peripheral vision - crucial for this game!
One interesting mechanic is that the game does not stop when you lose a life. All your lives are on-screen at the same time. In fact, you can be so busy, you don't notice when a life is lost! Another noteworthy feature is the rotating planet - very nicely done.
This run was played using the Steam version of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration on PC. The date of play was the 16th April 2023. The final score was 6,080 points.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is just that, a celebration of 50 years of Atari. Although there have been many Atari game compilations over the years, this one is the best yet, lovingly put together with many documents and features within it. It's like visiting an interactive museum.
Time stamps:
00:30 Selecting the Liberator arcade machine from the library.
00:33 Game loaded.
00:36 Game options.
00:52 Game start.
01:35 First life lost (top left).
02:29 Second life lost (top right).
02:43 Third life lost (top right).
03:10 Fourth life lost (top left). Game Over. Final score 6,080 points.