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Beamrider

1 September 19837.2/ 10 · 55 votes5

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About

Beamrider is a 3D arcade action game. You control a beam riding spaceship on a mission to clear 99 sectors of space from hostile aliens. The spaceship is located at the bottom of the screen and it can only stop on one of five beams. You are armed with both lasers and torpedoes; torpedoes are more powerful and can destroy more enemies compared to lasers, however you only get three per level. To complete a sector, you need to destroy fifteen white flying saucers. After all saucers are destroyed, the sector sentinel passes by which can be destroyed for extra points. Each even number sector up until sector 16 will add a new type of enemy to deal with. These additional enemies will just try to slow your mission, though, only the saucers need to be destroyed to advance. Occasionally a rejeuvinator will appear; if this is collected, you can earn an extra life. But be careful, because if you accidentally shoot the rejeuvinator it will turn into an enemy!

Ways to play

Modes

Single playerMultiplayer

Perspective

Third person

Players

4 offline

Languages (1)

Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
English

Also known as

Dave Rolfe's Beamrideralternate box title

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Facts

Released

1 September 1983

Platforms

PCWindowsCommodore 64Atari 2600ColecoVisionIntellivisionAtari 5200Atari 8-bitZX SpectrumMSXXboxXbox 360

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Tags

Behind viewArcadeShooterSpace flightSci-fi / futuristic