MineStorm Pico

Tread lightly! The transport lanes of intergalactic space have been seeded with mines from an alien vessel.
Use your mine destroying blaster to blow up the mines before they annihilate you! You may survive the floating mines, but beware of the fireball, magnetic, and treacherous fireball-magnetic mines!

. . . 30 fields, each one more difficult, await you!

Mine Storm Controls

Game Options

Keyboard:

       Navigate through the options.

or Change an option.
or Enter the first mine field and start game play.

Gamepad:

Ship Controls

Keyboard:

       
Rotates your mine destroying ship.

Control settings #1

or   Escape: Mysteriously changes your location.
or   Fire: Fires rockets at the mines.
             Thrust: Moves your ship forward.

Control settings #2

              Escape
or   Fire
or   Thrust

Control settings #3

              Escape
or   Fire
or   Thrust

Gamepad:

How To Play

Getting Hit

Types of Mines

	Floating Mines These are "dumb" mines which simply drift through space.
	Fireball Mines These mines hurl a fireball at you as soon as you hit them. You can avoid the fireball or destroy it with a rocket.
	Magnetic Mines These mines will follow you anywhere in the galaxy you go.
	Magnetic-Fireball Mines These mines have the traits of both Magnetic and Fireball Mines.

Field Types

Number of Ships

Scoring

Final Words

Thank you for volunteering!
Good luck with your mission, you will need it. It's not an easy task!
Mine field 1 is cleared by many new recruits with "ease".
Mine field 2 is very tough, until you learn to keep your distance and always fire straight lines at fireball mines.
Mine field 3 seems to be a "piece of cake" compared to the previous if you have mastered the art of thrust.
Mine field 4 . . . the end for many aspiring pilots. Once passed, you have mastered to eliminate all mine types.
Now it's up to you!

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Developer Notes

recreated the classic Vectrex arcade shooter game MineStorm for the Pico-8 platform for your enjoyment.
There were made some changes and additions in the design of the game to make it more playable on the Pico-8 platform.

Changes and additions:

• The scale of all game objects have been adjusted to suit the smaller screen size better.
  
• The movement physics have been adjusted to suit the smaller screen size better.
• Single player only
• Two levels of difficulty
• Autofire (default) is a feature in the options menu.
• A bonus ship is awarded every 3 fields instead of every 4.
• 30 mine fields, instead of 13.
• Space dust is not included.
• The ships mysterious Escape feature is much safer to use than in the original.
• The overlay HUD shows the current mine field number in the bottom left corner.
• The overlay HUD is dynamic and parts are being turned on and off during game play.
• A victory screen is awarded after clearing all 30 mine fields.
• Persistent High Score and Control settings.

Pico-8 Cartridge

Cartridge available at the Lexaloffle BBS.

Trivia

• The design of this page is based on the original box design of Vectrex cartridges:
  
    
• The game instructions are taken from the original MineStorm manual and edited where changes applied.
• Screenshots may differ slightly from the release version.