Rescue Terra I, published by VentureVision in 1982 for Atari 2600, puts the player in command of the F-117 Starwarrior ship defending the planet Terra I against three successive waves of threats: first meteors and space pirates, then interceptor robots emerging from the sides, and finally fish-shaped force fields descending from above. It was conceived as the first chapter of a science-fiction trilogy; the second, Innerspace, ended up published by Imagic under the name Laser Gates after VentureVision folded. It's a shooter with an ambitious structure for its year, with a more elaborate phase progression than its direct contemporaries.
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