Air Raid

Air Raid is a single screen shooter game released for the Atari 2600 in 1984.

It was the only game ever published by Men-A-Vision, and is shrouded in mystery, as nobody seems to know what the company did besides releasing this game, and is nowadays known for being one of the rarest games of all time, with copies going into the 5-digit territory.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It's essentially a reskin of U.S. Games's Space Jockey, but now on a vertical view instead of a horizontal one.
 * 2) * They didn't even change the sound effects!
 * 3) The graphics are stale, even for Atari 2600 standards.
 * 4) * The enemies are either generic looking, or is just a trace-up of the UFO from Imagic's better recieved Cosmic Ark, only scaled down in size to become a regularly appearing enemy throughout the game.
 * 5) * The buildings are just brown rectangles with small holes, & tiny white blocks on top with no variety at all.
 * 6) Boring gameplay. All you do is just shoot the enemies, & don't let the buildings completely collapse.
 * 7) * In order to destroy one of the enemy ships, you have to be pixel perfect. Otherwise, they'll just go right through the enemy.
 * 8) * The controls can be rather fidgety at times, especially when using a real Atari 2600 joystick.
 * 9) False Advertising: So far, there's no evidence of there ever being a Tuesday special attached to this game that aired on television.
 * 10) The box art looks like a screenshot from a regular average 80s cartoon.
 * 11) The cartridge, while cool looking, is very hard to put into the system itself.
 * 12) It single-handedly managed to bring the company down before they could release any other game, to the point of becoming extremely hard to find.

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