Star Search

Mission: Star Search. Rogue stars drift across the sky and shake the solar system with tremors. Move the gamma gun left and right along the foot of the sky and fire gamma rays up at them, one at a time. A hit destroys a star; a ray that reaches the top of the sky is a miss and burns one of your 22 ammo cells. Three hits in a row win back a cell and calm three tremors. Your score is ten times hits minus misses, plus a bonus for the height of the last hit. Tremors keep coming while you aim, shaking the screen with a rumble, and warnings sound as they mount. Score over 300 and the solar system is saved; run out of ammo, or suffer 16 tremors, and the mission ends.

Controls: Use either controller. The stick moves the gun left and right; either button fires. On the title, up and down choose and a button starts.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From Ahoy! No. 29, May 1986, page 54: original Commodore 64 program by Jim Sanders. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.