Moon Shuttle

The object of the game is to destroy the attacking Centrons, Electric Jelly, Plasma Jacks (which divide when hit) and the Retons which are worth extra bonus points.
Also to maneuver the players spaceship through the meteor belt safely.
The player has the ability to move his spaceship upward and downward to avoid a collision, also to the right to speed the spaceship through the meteor belt, this can be accomplished only in the meteor sequences The FIRE button is used to destroy the aliens and the meteors in order to provide a path through the meteor belt.
The players spaceship has unlimited firing power.
As the screens progress some of the meteors have more vertical movement than others which makes it more difficult to avoid a collision The band of meteors of various shapes and sizes move toward the player at varied speeds.
Sometimes these meteors will split into smaller pieces.
The player has to fire enough times and with enough accuracy to create his own path through the meteor belt.
If the players spaceship should collide with a meteor it would be destroyed.
The challenge of the meteor belt gets more difficult with each meteor sequence A smaller spaceship appears randomly hidden among the meteors in the meteor belt sequence, if the players should destroy this spaceship and additional spaceship would be awarded him.
"MOON SHUTTLE" has a Mega-Score Feature which gives the player the capability of adding extra spaceships by inserting additional coins once the game is in play.

# 2022-03-04 12:34:50 - official description

software: Emulated on MAME,

hardware: Namco Galaxian Arcade hardware,

display: raster

ported to
Moon Shuttle (C64)
Moon Shuttle (Atari 400/800)
Moon Shuttle (Tandy Coco)