Meteor

Meteor is a video game in the action genre originally released in 1981. It is currently playable on DOS.

A simple 'character graphics arcade game' that puts the player in charge of an ASCII smiley face. The objective: to clear solid blocks and avoid being splattered by falling Meteors. Points are scored by consuming the target's 3 rectangular blocks, or the trails left by the Meteors as they cross the screen; for each block hit by a Meteor, one point is lost instead. The difficulty level determines the location of the blocks: the higher they are, the closer they are to the top of the screen, where the Meteors appear.

Meteor! was created as an experiment by the author to test the capabilities of his university's then-new IBM PCs, which came without color graphics and optional joysticks, and to see if an arcade-like game could be written in BASIC despite these shortcomings. This version was later published in Creative Computing Magazine. The PC/Blue series of shareware/freeware compilation discs included a modified version of the game; in it, the difficulty level increases as you progress, and every 1000 points the blocks are automatically redrawn higher up the screen.

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