Reviews

One of the first games for the Spectrum, this was a conversion of the old arcade favourite Asteroids.

Compared against Psion's Planetoids, which appeared at the same time, this is rather an inferior game; rather than smoothly moving sprites, everything sticks to exact character squares although everything is drawn in outline to recreate the vector feel of the original.

The most notable thing about this is that it's one of the first Spectrum games to use speech, although due to the memory contention of the 16K machines, it's a barely recognizable croak of "Meteor Alert".

Although something of a historical curiosity, this isn't a game that I'd particularly recommend.

1982 Quicksilva (UK)
by John Hollis

Meteor Storm was one of my the most hated games. The inabilaty to stop you ship or, like in the original 'Asteroids' version, to thrust just a bit each time you press the correspondent key, made this game a detestable experience usualy lasting just a play or two before reseting the game and moving on to another more friendly game.
Thankfully there was 'Planetoids' which was a much better version.