Vortex

A core sits in the middle of space behind 36 blocks of armour, with a glowing eye at its heart. Your small arrow ship never stops flying: turn it, shoot your way through the armour and hit the eye to clear the level. Six guardians spin out of the core and wheel around it, and from level 2 they sometimes turn toward you. Touch a guardian or fly into the armour and the ship is lost, and the core is rebuilt. Each block (and the eye) is worth 100 points, a guardian 10, and destroying the eye pays a bonus of 1000 times the level. On Novice every hit breaks a block; on Expert only one in four does, and the bonus doubles. There are 18 levels, each a new colour, and you have three ships.

Controls: Controller 1 or 2: left and right turn the ship, a button fires, and holding a button brakes. On the title, up and down choose and a button selects.

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. 37, January 1987, page 20: original Commodore 64 program by Sean D. Wagle. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.