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Destination Earthstar
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Strap into the cockpit and Destination Earthstar shows its ambitions right away. Instead of the usual scrolling shooter, this Acclaim release puts you behind the controls of a starfighter in a first-person view, hunting enemy craft through open space in a style that nods to the space-combat sims gaining ground on home computers at the time.
Then the game switches gears. When it is time to assault an enemy planetary base, the view flips to a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up, so a run alternates between cockpit dogfights and horizontal blasting over hostile terrain. That two-in-one structure is the main attraction. Few NES shooters try to stitch a pseudo-3D space segment and a traditional side-scroller into the same cartridge, and the shift keeps the pace from settling into a rut.
It was developed by Imagineering, the studio that also handled The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants for Acclaim, and it has the bold-but-rough feel of many ambitious NES experiments from 1990. It never became a household name, which is part of its charm today. Destination Earthstar is a slice of early-'90s sci-fi enthusiasm, made at a moment when developers were trying to squeeze cockpit flight and interplanetary combat out of hardware built for side-scrollers.
It is an intriguing cartridge to fly, and a fun bit of oddball science fiction beside the platformers that dominate an NES shelf.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Acclaim
- Developer
- Imagineering Inc.
- Genre
- Shooter, Simulation
- Players
- Single player
About the game
A starfighter emulation game with a first-person cockpit view, like Wing Commander. Certain portions of the game require assaults on the enemy's planetary bases. These segments are played as 2D side scrolling shoot-em-ups, like R-Type.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayDestination Earthstar on NES
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