Activision's take on Space Invaders

User Rating: 7 | Megamania 2600

MegaMania is an arcade action game with gameplay similar to Space Invaders. You control a spaceship at the bottom of the screen and need to defend yourself from numerous waves of attackers. But in MegaMania, the attackers are much more bizarre than invading aliens. There are hamburgers, diamonds, steam irons, bow ties, space dice, and more! You need to earn points by destroying as many of these strange attackers as you can before your energy supply becomes depleted.

The game is both ingenious and frustrating. There's none of the predictability of Space Invaders; it has lots of excitement and requires lots of practice. Because the flying space objects move in such a jerky, random way, it's very hard to develop any particular strategy, except to shoot 'em and avoid 'em and get in a lot of play time before you challenge any of your friends.