"Astro-PANIC!" is a fast-paced, high-speed, all-machine-language game. The object is to defend your cannon, maneuvering it left and right as alien saucers dodge and dive in a relentless attack.

This game was published in February 1984, via the very popular magazine for the Commodore computer series. It was a monthly issue that provided articles for many different things. Some of which included, BASIC programming tips, Machine Language Tutorials, "Type-In" games, review of software, and more. The author, Charles Brannon, was a great contributor to the magazine for many articles and programs. Astro-Panic was one of his most popular games, written completely in Machine Language.

The article for this game can be found on page 68 of Compute's Gazette Issue 8 (February 1984)

This is a remake of my original submission, where it removes the "Trainer Screen". This was back when I didn't know that the companion disks were available for download. In addition, the optimization was improved but I don't know by how much...due to it being changed from PAL to NTSC.

This game runs until it reach Level 15, where the game comes to a grinding halt...effectively ending the game.

This game is an absolute RNG nightmare. Every frame can adjust an enemy ship, when its about to bounce off a border. The variations were enormous and prompted me to attempt a BOTed run. After checking a number of BOTing techniques, I realized it was not going to be an easy task...so I attempted to approach it manually. Recently, I finally decided to get this version ready for replacing the existing publication, where it uses a "Trainer Screen".

eien86: Claiming for judging.

eien86: A great execution of this vertical shooter where some shoots destroy 2 or 3 simultaneous enemies. I can only imagine the pain of optimizing this without a bot. This execution is faster and from a more desirable version of the game. This means this movie should obsolete the previous ones ([4449] C64 Astro-Panic! by nymx in 00:44.65).

Accepting to Standard

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