## Description
Humanity lost the big war against the alien empire and had to leave Earth and
its solar system behind. Now, after over three hundred of hard life inside of
space stations, they managed to build a small fleet of space ships and set out
to find a new planet to call their own and destroy the empire in the process.
The player takes the role of one of those ships.
_Abaron_ is a vertically scrolling shooter: the player can move the space
ship in four directions, shoot the equipped weapon in order to kill alien
ships and dodge their bullets to avoid losing the ship’s life-energy. Extra
equipment has to be purchased by collecting credits chips which are left
behind by pre-determined enemies. Depending on how many were gathered, another
weapon is available for purchase with a button press, e.g. three credits give
a pulse laser and seven credits a shield. Some of the weapons can be upgraded
by buying them more than once and if the player has bought multiple weapons,
they can be cycled through. When more than ten credits are collected, the
count is set to zero and extra points for the high-score are rewarded; another
way to improve the high score is to collect stars which are randomly left
behind by killed enemies. The ship has only one life and there are no
continues, but the game can be saved at the beginning of each level.
Abaron