Planet Smashers

Planet Smashers

released on Dec 31, 1990

Planet Smashers

released on Dec 31, 1990

Planet Smashers finally delivered an original 2D Shooter to the Pro System late in its life. Your spaceship, which oddly looks like an airplane, has the grave task of defending Earth from an alien armada. Planet Smashers has some nice features like level warp codes, laser upgrades, cloaking devices, and interesting bosses. You even have the burden of defending Earth's shield from asteroids and alien ships. The back of the box boasts, "awesome sound effects", but the main laser noise is mind-numbingly irritating. After you defeat the game, you are treated to a text ending commanding you to play Alien Brigade, which makes little sense since you just defeated the alien mothership.


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By 1990 this is just an embarrassingly simplistic vertical shooter.

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Honestly the fact that Atari basically bought this off a hobbyist so they could actually have content to release makes absolute perfect sense. As it is, its a rather drab looking affair and a rather 'meh' affair gameplay wise. Its not awful by any means but its just too barebones and simple to really recommend properly.

Not a great SHMUP by any means and especially looks laughable when you had stuff like Thunder Force II and Blazing Lazers out by the time this game was released