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Destination: Earth

January 17, 2005

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Destination: EarthAnother game for the classics lover in you. Destination: Earth is actually a Flash recreation of a bootleg clone of the old Taito classic arcade game, Lunar Rescue, released in 1979.

The game is a mix between Lunar Lander and Space Invaders. The player first navigates the lunar lander module down through an asteroid field to land safely on a landing platform, which then rescues a stranded passenger. The player then pilots the craft back up to the mother ship through alien five-o'clock traffic, shooting any space craft that gets in the way. The goal is to rescue as many stranded passengers as you can.

This Flash version is quite good and captures the essence of the old-school arcade video game by sampling all the original sounds. A very nice conversion job by the folks at SyndicatesDomain. Click.

Comments (may contain spoilers)

Seem to be blocking third party linking now :(

Posted by: Crummy | April 11, 2005 8:36 PM

Thanks for the note. Link is fixed. The game will pop-up in a new browser window with all their ads in view. Sorry for that.

Posted by: jay | April 11, 2005 9:49 PM

The link is not working, results in 404.

Posted by: rakeback Author Profile Page | July 6, 2006 8:21 PM

The website is down for updates. Hopefully the game will be back when the website comes back online. Otherwise, I'll remove the game from the recommended section.

Posted by: jay Author Profile Page | July 6, 2006 8:25 PM

New link is

http://www.syndicatesdomain.co.uk/index.php?page=playgame&id=27

Posted by: Dave | July 19, 2006 3:55 PM

Cheers, Dave. I've updated the links accordingly. =)

Posted by: jay Author Profile Page | July 19, 2006 4:02 PM

I can't believe how much I loved that game before they "updated" it, or how much I hate it now that it's changed. Anybody know where another more original version might be hiding?

Posted by: FactWino | October 3, 2006 9:06 PM

The links now lead to a site composed entirely of ads. It looks like it's gone, at least from that location.

Posted by: Sari Everna Author Profile Page | November 29, 2007 9:36 PM

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