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The Great Space Adventure
9 years ago

Have you played Atari today? ...not like this!


This is The Great Space Adventure. It’s a game heavily inspired by Atari games, and it shows.

You pilot a transforming robot called the Walking Orbital Laser Flyer, or WOLF, and you must save the twelve stars from the evil Big Floating Head. Shoot anything green, and especially shoot dragons, energy cores, and any enemy fire that comes up. Will you be victorious, or will you explode?

If this is a love letter to Atari, you don’t want to see their hate mail.



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