Solaris is a space combat game for the Atari 2600 published in 1986 by Atari Corporation. It was developed by Doug Neubauer, who owns the copyright and the Solaris trademark. The game is a sequel to Neubauer's Atari 8-bit family game Star Raiders from 1979. Both games feature an enemy race known as Zylons, but Star Raiders uses a first-person perspective while Solaris is in third-person. Solaris was at one point going to be based on The Last Starfighter, while the Atari 8-bit version of The Last Starfighter was renamed Star Raiders 2.
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Finally a sequel to Star Raiders and yep, it's a Battlestar Galactica knockoff. Nowhere near as influential as the original, but still a decent space shooter.
this is a very visually impressive game! it's cool just to fly around, to go into hyperspace, to see small enemies in the distance become large, and to see them blow up into fireworks when you hit them.
i was really engaged with this at the beginning, but ultimately i just don't like the open world structure very much. it's too big and the shooting is not good enough to support the scope. funnily enough it's the same problem i have with a lot of modern games, where they make a strong first impression but then drag on so long that i can't help but focus on the frustrations.
i was really engaged with this at the beginning, but ultimately i just don't like the open world structure very much. it's too big and the shooting is not good enough to support the scope. funnily enough it's the same problem i have with a lot of modern games, where they make a strong first impression but then drag on so long that i can't help but focus on the frustrations.
Played as part of Atari 50.
Incredibly impressive for the 2600, but it's obviously too ambitious for the hardware and winds up just being a much worse Star Raiders, released half a decade after Star Raiders.
Incredibly impressive for the 2600, but it's obviously too ambitious for the hardware and winds up just being a much worse Star Raiders, released half a decade after Star Raiders.
Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 5: Atari Vol 2
Wow. Well this game is a lot and a half. We have space combat, a large open area, rescuing people and more. Its actually really fun and surprisingly in depth for what it is. If theres one hidden gem from both these Atari packs, this is very much 'that one'.
Wow. Well this game is a lot and a half. We have space combat, a large open area, rescuing people and more. Its actually really fun and surprisingly in depth for what it is. If theres one hidden gem from both these Atari packs, this is very much 'that one'.
Got this confused with the Andrei Tarkovsky film