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Reviews for Airbase Invader (#116)

Review by ABU on 18 Apr 2010 (Rating: 4)

If you like original games with character then this may be to your liking. Basically a simpler atic-atac type maze game, you control a CND supporter with a flag - possibly the most bizarre game character ever – as she makes her way through the levels chasing Ronald Reagan before he pushes the nuclear button. In your way are policemen, soldiers and indestructible Maggie Thatchers! You can kill them with kisses and pick up extra lives. Your character is bit unwieldy, but the graphics are cute and colourful. I got down to level 8 but Reagan moves fast and is able to clone himself so you never seem to kill the right one. Good playable game.

Review by WhenIWasCruel on 10 Jan 2014 (Rating: 3)

You are pacifist, antinuclear girl mysteriously fallen into an Atic Atac clone, and your aim to stop Ronald "Raygun" before he decides to push the nuke button - in order to do so you must find him as he descends into the underground levels of the airbase and then KILL HIM WITH A KISS, or something. In fact, the base is crawling, crowded, swarming with soldiers and strange characters, that can be eliminated throwing LITTLE HEARTS at them - they all surrender [exploding], except for a mysterious woman that apparently cannot be corrupted with tenderness or sweetness or fond caresses, which is called Iron Lady or something. Graphics ok [mostly black and empty, anyway], action is fast, playability is ok, but the rooms are all the same and so the gameplay. It certainly has a different feel [and aim] compared to the other Atic Atac derivatives - so let's give it a 3/5 and push the nuke button.

Review by Matt_B on 15 May 2015 (Rating: 3)

Obviously inspired by the protests at the Greenham Common airbase, when cruise missiles were deployed there at the height of the cold war, this arcade adventure was a bit of a hot topic when first released.

You control Annie, a pacifist complete with CND flag, on a mission to stop President Raygun (spelling no doubt intentional) from launching a nuclear attack. Your only weapons are little hearts you can fire at the assorted enemies to spread the love. Watch out for the Iron Lady, obviously based on another divisive politician of the era.

The game hasn't really stood the test of time in any respect, but might still appeal to the nostalgic as a curio of eighties culture, when Armageddon could really have been but four minutes away.

Review by YOR on 17 Feb 2019 (Rating: 3)

In this game you, as Annie, have to stop President “Raygun” from hitting the nuclear button. If you see him you must shoot him dead, except he will immediately clone himself. Other nasties in the game feature Tommy, Harry Hardnose, Plod and Iron Lady, who is of course Maggie Thatcher and she is immune to your shots. It's playable yes and it's quite fun, but I feel it's a game you can never win and Ronnie, sorry President Raygun, will endlessly clone himself until you die, and that can only be fun for so long. But it's a nice game for what it is nevertheless.