[TOMT] [90's computer game] An addictive reflex game where you destroy asteroids with an ufo (I think) by drawing circles w/mouse and...

So yeah. I played this game in between 1993-1998 approximately. I have been searching that game ever since, it is one of the most fun and addictive things I've ever played, and it has a lot of nostalgic value for me because I used to play it as a teen with my older brother at his place when my parents were divorcing.

Anyway...

So, I'm not sure if I played this in DOS, Windows 3.1(or Win95) or Amiga 500. But...

In it your mouse moves a ufo (I'm not fully sure but pretty sure) in space while asteroids and other enemies (maybe) bombard your ship and you have to draw "circles" by holding down your left mouse button and capture them inside the circle which then closes, which destroys them (later I think it requires multiple "trappings" to destroy something). If you try to draw a circle too large or are too slow, you just drag along a bright curvy line along your ufo's tail. Also, I think the asteroids themselves were pre-rendered in 3D and rolled around in different sizes around the screen.

So, it's a lot like asteroids (same one screen concept, in space with stars and stuff), but you move your ufo/ship like the mouse cursor (so you need to be careful not to hit anything with quick movements or trap yourself somewhere when it gets more hectic) and your primary method of attack is holding down the left mouse button and quickly drawing a circle from the line that starts to draw behind your ufo, which closes up and causes damage to anything that got inside it.

It's a very simple and addictive concept, and probably pretty easy to make. So if ANYONE please remembers this game or knows of a similar one, please let me know!

This is the only thing the internet hasn't been able to help me all these years, and now I'm going nuts. Google isn't much help because words like "asteroids", "mouse" or "draw circles" gives you mostly that "full free download", "free flash games here!", "history of asteroids" and "list of arcade flash games that use the mouse!".... You know what I mean...

So I really hope I made sense - I'm not good at structuring my text properly. If you know anything that's even remotely similar, let me know about that too! (Sigh, I'll soon have to make it myself, too bad my skills are limited to BASIC -_-)

Posted Sep 22, 2011, 11:08 AM UTC

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invisiblecastle•

OH MY GOSH. Yes. What is this game? I've played it! I feel like it was emailed to me for some reason. Or on linux. This is going to drive me crazy!

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samoutOP•

Glad to know there are other people who feel like I do!! :(

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kirun•

Sounds like a similar mechanic to Meritous, though that's a dungeon crawler with a side of bullet hell.

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samoutOP•

Checked out some gameplay, not at all like it in the mechanics. You try to draw "laser-type" circles with your mouse (which is the ufo-thingie also) which close in and deal damage to the asteroids that get stuck inside.

On of my friends said it might have been on my Amiga 500. It did have sound as far as I recall. Not totally sure. Could have been my 486 PC too (which did not have a soundcard, except maybe later). It was not a big budget game, I'm sure.

But I grabbed a download of Meritous and will put this in my vast freeware-game collection and I'll start playing that sometime soon! ;) Thanks anyway!

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