Astrians was published by BGV Limited in 1980 as a variant of Swarm, one of the many formation shooters that appeared after Galaxian established the mold of enemies descending in coordinated waves. The player controls a fixed ship at the bottom of the screen and fires at insects or alien ships that break formation to dive-attack.
Like so many titles from that moment, its development history is hard to trace precisely: the available information is scarce and limited almost entirely to MAME preservation databases. Its interest today is purely archaeological, as a sample of the clone saturation the genre experienced right after Space Invaders.
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