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Comet Busters!

Windows 3.x - 1994

Comet Busters! is a very fun Asteroids clone for one to four players.

From the succinct description at MobyGames: "...You must blast all the comet chunks to advance to the next level. But there are evil saucers, alien cronies, and flying chunks of dead planets all waiting for you. You can play single player on one PC, or multiplayer over modem, serial cable, or TCP/IP network (the Internet!). You also have four special abilites: Hyperspace, Shields, Disruptor, and Cloak (Only useful for multiplayer)

You can play full screen in any game. Another feature is tournament mode, where two to four players compete to see who is the last one left on each level. In this mode, you can choose between having the rocks bounce, be destroyed when you shoot them, or no rocks. It features support for sound cards, or the PC speaker. You can also have MIDI music, [or] even make it random."

With neat special abilities, very innovative tournament mode, and smooth gameplay, Comet Busters takes the basic idea of Asteroid to a whole new level. Too bad the game was not more popular when it was released as shareware. Best of all, Steven Hugg the designer and copyright holder of the game has released it into the public domain, so now you have no excuse not to try this addictive underdog. Highly recommended!

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Jmf 26 May. 2025

Wish I could make it run on Windows 95, 3.11 virtual machines are a pain

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nostalgico90s 24 Jul. 2023

que recuerdos tengo en este momento simplemente genial .. la verdad siento mucha nostalgia. y volvere a jugar mis juegos de la infancia

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Jvboy 07 Sep. 2022

I loved this game, i played the whole shareware version and wanted to get full, this is the first time I see it again. Thanks for uploading it, best regards.

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Downloads

Windows 3.x version
Win3xO release
United Kingdom English
15 MB

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