๐ข Gremlin Industries๐ 01 Jan 1978๐ฎ Gremlin Arcade Classics / Lane Hauck
Following their groundbreaking innovations with Blockade and Depthcharge, engineering icon Lane Hauck at Gremlin Industries in partnership with Sega released Blasto in August 1978, standing as a high-octane competitive maze demolition arcade classic that challenged two players to pilot agile space cruisers through an intricate grid filled with explosive space mines, shooting laser cannons to detonate mines before a ticking countdown timer triggered total arena self-destruction.
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High-contrast geometric grid labyrinth with pulsing space mines and evasive patrolling drone craft.
An intense, early grid-shooting maze combat classic from Gremlin and Sega's microprocessor era.
Blasto is a 1978 action video game developed and published by Gremlin Industries for arcades. The player controls a spaceship and must maneuver it through a mine field. The player tries to beat the clock to destroy all the mines.
Bert Ankrom set the arcade world record on September 8, 2002, with a verified score of 8,730 points.
A port for the TI-99/4A home computer was later released by Milton Bradley in early 1981.
