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📜 Aboard a unique spaceship that perfectly mirrors the shape of a massive car battery, the protagonist sails through the depths of the cosmos with a vital objective: to intercept and capture the powerful stray electrical beams wandering through space. This precious kinetic energy is the only resource capable of powering and recharging the batteries of their orbital base, which are now dangerously close to total collapse. The harvesting mission, however, is thwarted by a mysterious and hostile alien starship, determined to open fire and destroy the player's craft to prevent the station from being saved. Thus begins a frantic struggle for survival filled with near-miss dodges, laser blasts, and sudden energy conversions.

💾The download includes the game ROM, PDF manual, and BEZEL for the Stella emulator. The demo (a single level of play) is available for download or to play in browser.

💻Press SELECT to start the game.   Recharge your ship/battery by capturing three electric rays before the timer runs out. With each capture, our ship and the electric ray change color until the ship turn green. When the ship is charged/green, take it to the base and press the fire button to refuel the base and reset the timer. Don't get hit by the homing missile fired by the alien ship and don't hit the barriers or you'll lose energy. Hide behind the barriers and the alien missile will explode when it hits them. Every time a beam reaches the bottom of the playing field, the timer will lose time, and every time the timer reaches zero, you will lose energy.

🏆I make games exclusively for the Atari 2600 and would like to get into the Guinness Book of Records as the single person/company to have made the most games for a single console. More than Atari itself. That's why I've set myself the goal of making at least 180. I'd like to do that by the end of the year.

🎮The games I released last year (over 40) will be free to download forever, but to fund this endeavor, the ones released in 2026 will be available for the ridiculous price of $2 (not exactly everyone 😉). If you'd like to help, I'd be grateful.

👍🏻You'll also find new releases on   Mastodon,    Bluesky ,     X  and     Facebook    where you'd be welcome to leave a like.

🔨I can make custom games for free for anyone who requests them (as long as they're within my capabilities). Email me at the address below. 

  Atari2600gamemaker@yahoo.com

🤖AI Disclosure: This game was entirely programmed and written by me without the use of AI. Artificial intelligence was used solely to assist in the creation of the graphical assets.